Visited mum today, we talked about a dinner my wife and I had with a couple from California that I met about a year ago when they were on holidays in Sydney, (they come to Sydney every year in summer).

Then mum said to me, "we used to have family in California, they would send us a postcard every year".

Then I remembered that as a kid I used to play with these strange looking colourful postcards and I even remember that many of the pictures were of a parade called "the Rose Bowl". Then mum says "I've still got a few of them".

She had 3 and they were from 1945 & 1946 and even though I had not seen them for 50 years, I can remember them like it was yesterday.

The only thing I don't recall was the info that was written about LA. Apparently the population at the first census in 1940 was just 1.5 mil.

But in the second last paragraph they do mention the surf so I thought that was enough justification to share the pics with you.