Showing the way things were in 1939
Category: Promotional material
Image: from Frasher Foto Postcard Collection at Pomona, CA public library via
https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0r29p8v6/?layout=metadata&brand=oac4
The present-day building circled above on this undated postcard retains what appears to be the original plaque from 1939. Other buildings shown to the right were constructed earlier in the 1930s .
Details are sparse but this link refers to WPA buildings at the fairgrounds:
Image: souvenir postcard packet (damaged at fold)
This is the outer cover that would be folded over and mailed to send a collection of postcards instead of just a single one.
Also see my blog post on the parade from a few years ago.
Image: blotter found on an online auction site.
A pinup with a title that could have several meanings adorns the advertising message as December soon becomes January 1939.
Globe began in Philadelphia in 1868 by an industrious boy who found a $5 bill and used it to buy a toy printing press. Learn more about it at https://www.globeticket.com/history/ .
Image: uncited magazine advertisement from https://ia800708.us.archive.org/18/items/SouthernPacific1939G/Southern%20Pacific%20-1939G.jpg
1939 Southern California 
