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With a Carload of Love…

With a Carload of Love…

Letters from Wallie illustrates a beautiful courtship, romance and marriage with wife Mabel via mail by rail from Wausau to Milwaukee in 1930s Wisconsin before and during the Great Depression.

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Friday, January 30, 1931

January 30, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I miss you more & more my little darling. Last night I stopped in at the Ford Garage & they have a Radio – there was such sad music that I got the real downright blues. Honest, dear heart I almost had to cry.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Thursday, January 29, 1931

January 29, 1931September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

How is my little pal today? Fine I hope. I’m feeling fine too. So if you feel fine & I feel fine then we’re all fine.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Friday, January 16, 1931

January 16, 1931September 22, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

I hope Dr. Reist will keep it out of the paper. “Eight months” babies never live, do they? But “seven months” do, I’ve heard. Whatever it is, we’ll be satisfied — other people don’t count anyway.

"Wallie & Mabel" Mabel & Wallie

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Thursday, March 21, 1929

March 21, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…we both love each other more dearly than ever before that’s the effect trouble should have on love. After every spout of trouble love again appears on top & stronger than before.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Tuesday, March 19, 1929

March 19, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

My darling you can easily tell by my letters that I’m upset I can’t keep my “train of thought” on the track.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Friday, March 15, 1929

March 15, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…I have your picture resting on my dresser & you’re looking right straight at me. How I do love to just look into your eyes. And your lips, my dear heart are so sweet a kiss upon your lips means “the more you get the more you want” & I’ll never get too many.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Thursday, March 14, 1929

March 14, 1929January 9, 2019 ~ Krista Polansky

With a carload of love & kisses to my darling from your darling…

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Monday, March 4, 1929

March 4, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

…I am so tired I fell asleep a couple times today but I couldn’t help myself. But what do we care about that? We had a most wonderful time out of it so we must overlook such a trivial matter as being tired.”

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Wednesday, February 20, 1929

February 20, 1929September 20, 2018 ~ Krista Polansky

Do you know a secret? Course you don’t but I do & I’ll share it with you. I have your picture on my dresser this morning the sun shone into my room and it shone right on your smiling beautiful face and from the two – the sun & your smile – your smile was the warmest & brightest.

Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI “Wallie”

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Walter Carl Polzin - Milwaukee, WI
Walter Carl Polzin – Milwaukee, WI

Walter Carl Polzin (1901-1983) was born and raised as the youngest of three sons born to German immigrants Otto F. W. and Albertina (Fischer) Polzin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After a brief stint with Milwaukee Road, he attended the Walton School of Commerce in Chicago and worked as a field auditor in public accounting involving a considerable amount of travel for the firm Mollerus & Heuel throughout the state of Wisconsin. He would later work locally for the next 38 years as a cost accountant for Milwaukee Stamping Co. after marrying the love of his life and the birth of their only child, a daughter, Nancy Leigh Dawn.

On the Victrola

“Snap-Crackle-Pop!” - [Music] Explore the soundtrack of life via the collection of 78s on the Victrola.

Snapshots

"Wallie & Mabel" Mabel & Wallie - Walter "Wallie" & Mabel (Schrader) Polzin through the years

In Her Own Words: A Memoir

“The Story of My Life as I Remember It” - The first home I remember was at 218 North 4th Avenue in the city of Wausau. When I was a baby my parents had lived in an upper flat on North 3rd Avenue but I do not remember living there. My father delivered groceries with horse and wagon for a grocery store called “Cash Trading … Continue reading “The Story of My Life as I Remember It”

Consignment of first class dead letter mail. Library of Congress: Benj. Morse, 1925.
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