Two names, a street corner, and a meeting that did not happen.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
NICK B.: Didn't see you at Third and Verona. OLGA K.
| Newspaper | San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California |
|---|---|
| Date | December 2, 1900, page 29 |
| Written by | Signed Olga K. |
| Addressed to | One person, Nick B. |
December 2, 1900, was a Sunday. The ad does not say why they missed each other, only that Olga did not see Nick at the corner. It ran on the same page as a middle-aged professional gentleman from the East looking for a wife. Nearly forty years earlier, in New York, a writer told Latimer, “I waited at Nineteenth till 8.” For where people in the Bay Area post missed connections now, see our guide to personal ads in San Francisco.
Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.
Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first line of each ad in capitals, so the capitals stop wherever that line ended, sometimes in the middle of a word.
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