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This was what one side of the Dubsdread pool looked like many decades ago when there was a pool at all at the Dubsdread Country Club just north of the College Park neighborhood in the most northern part of Orlando at the time.
 
This postcard was mailed in February of 1942. Private Pete Cairns, of the Medical Department at the Orlando Air Base mailed this postcard to a pal, Private Ben Henry at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois. Pvt. Pete tells Pvt. Ben that he’s “getting tan now, am on detail work, and I like it.”

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