Bert Jacobson was just 13 when he took a trip with his father and cousins to the East Coast and wrote his mother a postcard to describe the fun he was having. At that time, in 1967, Lyndon B. Johnson was president, the Beatles were groovy and postage home cost 4 cents.
That postcard never reached Jacobson’s mother — not until this week, that is, when the letter, dirtied and tattered, arrived at his family’s concrete business P.O. Box.
“It was an awesome trip,” Jacobson recalled, according to local outlet News9 in Oklahoma City, Okla.
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