Mrs. Culp's Diary, Saturday, February 6, 1937

The perfect Christmas gift: a toaster

It was a warm, clear day in Tampa. Mrs. Culp went shopping in the morning and took the streetcar back to the Bay View. "Had windows cleaned to-day, sat outside in sunshine for 2 hours." Son William and daughter-in-law Jackie came for a visit. "They wrote to Trude [Mrs. Culp’s sister] to thank her for the toaster," she said. Here is a 1936 ad for a Toast…