I had 2 scans of this picture postcard, but they must have been from duplication of an original as they are not very clear.
But what caught my eye was the man in the picture was identified on the back.
For decades I had shown this to many of the old timers who would have known him, but at a much older age...no luck, not until now with this postcard I purchased on e-bay.
One thing I noticed is the 2 I had scanned from 2 different people's collections is they were not clear and one is really blurry. When I zoom in and crop the image of Willard on the older scans, this is the size at 100% from those scans I made, but notice how I now make high to very high resolution scans of most of the pictures and items I scan...you can actually make out his face and read the information in the store window.
Another important aspect of the information on back is whoever wrote it, knew Willard and even better yet wrote he worked for Lewis & Reinhold.
Then when I checked to see if I had his obituary - it confirmed he worked there.
Now all of these little clues may seem insignificant at first - they are huge to my Manning historical work - and why I'm always begging and pleading to anyone who has old Manning pix & history to get it to me so I can scan it and also I'll probably find more "clues" to fill in the Manning puzzle - that the people who have those items would have no idea with those clues - you have to work with this history for decades to understand.

Recently purchased on e-bay
I don't know if I ever knew or just forgot being told that my relative - Erwin Hansen, had an office in the 2nd story of this building.
Of course, today these building fronts are just 1 story, the original buildings were destroyed by fire in 1939.

Scanned from the Art & Ila Rix collection in 2012

Scanned in 2010 not sure whose collection as I didn't separate it out into a folder with that person's name.

The other information on back I already had, but Willard Bailey and that he wasn't just someone standing in front is key.

Cropped at 100% from the recent scan I made.

Cropped at 100% from the 2012 postcard I scanned which must have been a copy made.

Cropped at 100% from the 2010 postcard I scanned which must have been a copy made.

Sadly, MOST of those items I scanned way back when have been thrown away or who knows where they are now when the Manning folks I borrowed them from had passed away.

Funeral services for Willard Bailey were held on Friday, March 5, 1976, at 10 a.m. at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. Rev. Joel Wright of the First Presbyterian Church was in charge. Mrs. Judy Jones was the soloist and Mrs. Bonita Hagedorn was the organist. Casketbearers were Orval Fink, Ernest Grimm, Louis Popp, Merlin Struve, Hugo Ress, and Clyde Kenyon. Burial was in the Manning Cemetery.

Willard, son of George and Adeline (Stromme) Bailey, was born January 18, 1904, at Missouri Valley, Iowa. He graduated from Manning High School in 1924 and then went to work for the Lewis Reinhold Co. in Manning. He was united in marriage with Effie Wiese in March of 1925.

Willard worked for the Kaiser Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington, during World War II and then returned to Carroll to work. In 1959 they moved to Portland, Oregon. His wife died August 2, 1970, and Willard continued to make his home in Portland until about three weeks ago when he moved to Denver, Colorado, to be near his daughter. He passed away on Monday, March 1, at Rose Memorial Hospital in Denver at the age of 71 years, 1 month, and 13 days.

Besides his wife, Willard was preceded in death by his father, one sister and two brothers.

He is survived by his daughter Mrs. Arthur (Shirley) Calabra, Denver, four grandchildren, Teresa, Cris, Jon and Steven; his mother, Mrs. Adeline Bryan, North Long Beach, California; two brothers, Lee Bailey, Corona, California, and John Bailey, North Long Beach, California, and by many other relatives and friends.