Getting back to posting the letters and items from the collection of King Mar's letters around the time he went back to China and Baksha in 1936 after managing the Pan American Cafe in Wichita for several years.
The letter is another typical letter of friends missing King at the Pan American Cafe and another mention of the Pan American Clipper, the luxury seaplane of the times.
Also, an envelope in Chinese (can anyone help translate it?). The stamp is a portrait of Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese politician, physician, and political philosopher, who served as the provisional first president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Kuomintang. I know enough to recognize the Chinese calligraphy is well written.
Also, the letter stationery says The Rorabaugh Dry Goods Co. The Rorabaugh Buck department store (Bucks, to me as a child. My Mom shopped there a lot. Ken and I played in the circular clothes racks as they made great tents and hiding places. I'm sure the management weren't too happy to see the Wee boys enter the store). Across the street is Kress, a Five & Dime store we went to a lot. Bucks and Kress were on the corner or Broadway and Douglas.
And a few months later:
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