Letters From Amarillo Children to Santa Claus
A long list of Christmas wish letters from children in Amarillo and surrounding towns. Kids request toys such as dolls, trains, bicycles, fire trucks, footballs, sleds, and candy, and many include ages and home streets. Some note family hardship and ask Santa to bring for siblings as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Ruth Virginia Sager
P. S
Pierce Street
Santa
Studehey
Betty Jo
Robin Carlton Horne
Pierce St. P
Carlton
Carl
Jack
Lester
St. Mary’s Academy
Eldon Kenneth Siebel
West Fifth Avenue
Billie
Amarillo
Marriet Holman
Prospect Street
Gertrude Kerr
Tam
Ruth Eustace
Fillmore Street
Norman Isaacs
East
Eighth Avenue
Vaudeville Programs Include Stars and Stories
The bill features Charles Rogers in Someone to Love, Janet Gaynor in Street Angel, and Marty Young and His Youngsters with Young Wirl wind in the NAT program, alongside Tarzan the Mighty and a Deandi-Young whirlwind act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Rogers
Tarzan the Mighty
Janet Gaynor
Deandi
Young Whirlwind
Marty Young
Child writer requests bicycle and stories from school
A note from a second grade student at Wilson School asks for a bicycle and two story hooks along with plenty of good food. The writer signs as Joan Russell Horne and uses J R as initials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson School
Joan Russell Horne
J, R
Also Mentioned on This Page
Buddife Ausburn
P. S&s
Nelson Deal
North Pole
Charles Seiwell
Laverne Sanders
Mother Adus
Glen Sanders
A. R
Jackie Davis
East Twenty-third Ave
Little Eugene McClain
1009 West
Fourteenth Street
Billie Gene Noland
P.S
Pat Fairey
Hadley Case
Ruth
Palmer
Emmett Eustace
Emmett
Bear
Haskell Dunaway
S17
North Lamar
Edna Lois Myers
Santa Clas
Pampa
Central Ward
Maurice Beer
Texas
Virginia Grey Stogner
Henry Nick Miller
Andree Young
Adams
Peggy Jeanne Hall
Buchanan Street
Dear Santa Claus
Tenth Street
Donnaleta Cort
Helen Louise Hayden
Freda Dee Copper
Clayton Taggart
Hubert and
Herman Smith
Bess Putnam
Maxine
Jane
Bunny Williams
N. B
Walden Stith
East Twelfth Street
Florence Wilson
Little Boy
Hunsley’s
Polk St
Pikes Peak
Crane Candy CO
Fillmore Waples Platter Grocery CO
Taylor St
Bell System
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Jarett’s
Tarzan
THE
BRILL
Air OF
Jacks
IA Queen
Harry Holmes
Peasimet
Carl Rosint & CO
CY and
Helen Plunkett
Loughe
Sheldon Hee & Lewis
Jill
Ruddy Rogers
Farquet the
Fide
Movietone
Slpeicpeature
Charles Farrell
Meaven
TEANT
Roxy Theatre Orchestra
Vitaphone
Merchants Express
Veton
LTON
STON
Graham Brothers
Dodge Brothers
Tyler
Callum Motor C9., Inc
Graham
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!