Cafe Sauter

9 May 1913: Left to right: (Background) the 12-story Union National Bank (1911); (foreground) The Economy must be the Cohn & Kaplan clothing store at 315 Travis; Sauter Cafe, dining room, saloon and delicatessen at 317 Travis and 901-907 Preston; Ed Kiam's clothing store with physicians and other professionals on the upper floors. 

3 February 2006: Left to right, background: The Union National Bank has become the Hotel Icon, the tall building in the center is Congress Plaza, the 17 story Harris County attorneys building and law library (1987), and on the right, the almost Brutalist 10-story Harris County Administration Building (1978). Foreground: Cafe Sauter location has long been gone and replaced by a parking lot; Metro Theater (currently derelict); Kiam Building, now unoccupied. 

Postmarked: 9 May 1913 Houston, Texas 
Stamp: 1c Green George Washington #405 

To: Mr. W. L. Garrison c/o F. W. Woolworth Co. 
Fort Worth, Tex 
 Message: Am enjoying my last move very much and hope they leave me here for a while. Business is slow but we have hopes. Smith and I are still on speaking terms. Regards to the bunch. 
P. M. Baldwin

William L. Garrison was the manager of the F. W. Woolworth store in Fort Worth in 1912 and 1914, and probably had been transferred into the store from another in the national chain of outlets. He cannot be located prior or subsequent from his record in Fort Worth. It is reasonable to think that P. M. Baldwin and  Smith were also Woolworth employees sharing a work experience in Fort Worth, but finding them in Houston has been elusive. It seems that all three men had only a peripheral connection to Houston history, and all moved on to other situations soon after this postcard.