blast into the past...someone else's past

I went to a thrift store on sunday to look for a prop for my latest film project. Instead of finding vintage black umbrellas or hats, the books were 50% off. Whoop de doo! I flipped through a lot of them, which were the hardcore rusty ones that you would see from the movies... they kind of left a weird feeling in my fingers, maybe it was from all the dust since when i closed them, a puff would come out from the pages. hmm.
Anyways, this piece of paper slipped out of the book I was going to buy and I looked closely at it. It was a calling card from the 1930s! It was so cool, because the calligraphy looked swift and sophisticated. The stamp was marked in 1938, which made me think how amazing it is... that I'm holding a slip of paper that someone else had held 70 years ago. It brought on a whole wave of questions; is that person still alive now? did they use it as a bookmark for this book i just bought ?(which is called 100 of the best short stories ever written)Who was the calling card written for... a brother? a lover? a business partner? its really really cool.

I was holding an antique in my hands. Something that holds so much history over the past 70 years. For all i know, the card could have just been in the book all that time. I should go thrift store shopping more often, it would show you what you can't find in a history book or a mall.