Sorry, darling: seats not available (1954)

Personal1954

SORRY: Seats not available, darling. Booked Monday.—A.M.L.

The Sydney Morning Herald, September 27, 1954, p. 16. View the original page on Trove, National Library of Australia

In plain English

A.M.L. tells someone they call darling that the seats were not available, and that they are booked for Monday instead.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, New South Wales
Date	September 27, 1954, page 16
Written by	Signed A.M.L.
Addressed to	One person, called darling
Where	By private arrangement

Context

Short private notices like this ran in the same column as the matrimonial ads, between people who already knew each other. The notice doesn’t say what the seats were for. The same column carried a note to J. that day.

In the Personals Dictionary

Personal column

Tagged

coded messages

How to cite this ad

“Sorry, darling: seats not available.” Personal advertisement, The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, New South Wales), September 27, 1954, p. 16. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1954-sydney-morning-herald-sorry-seats-not-available.html.

Public domain in Australia, where it was published in 1954 without the writer’s full name.

Transcribed from the page image on Trove and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed.

← 1954: To J.: in order to maintain dignity

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