Columbus Day, 1939 (A Nick & Carter Vacation E book 17)

Thursday, October 12, 1939

It is Columbus Day and it looks like everyone seems to be heading to the Golden Gate Worldwide Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay!

There are just a few days left earlier than the thrilling exhibitions, pavilions, eating places, and rides shut down they usually could not open up once more in 1940.

Nick Williams and Mike Robertson are heading over to Treasure Island to tour all of the pavilions of the completely different states and the overseas lands.

Each have been earlier than.

Mike labored a element there earlier within the yr as a patrol officer. He by no means bought to see something apart from the loopy crowds.

Nick snuck in along with his buddies through the early days of the Exposition. He even took off with just a few trinkets with out paying.

Carter Jones and Henry Winters arrived in San Francisco from Georgia a few months in the past and, solely now, are lastly in a position to make their manner over to Treasure Island.

Carter, who’s coaching to be a fireman, has been trying ahead to this magical second for a very long time.

Henry is assembly him there after courses at Cal over in Berkeley.

Each {couples} will discover their expeditions delayed by some unlucky and coincidental encounters among the many 1000’s of tourists who’re crowding the island in celebration of Columbus Day.

However, ultimately, every thing kinds itself out they usually all have an exquisite time.

And, who is aware of, possibly their paths will cross 8 years earlier than that great enchanted starting…

Welcome to a yr of holidays with Nick Williams and Carter Jones!

That is the seventeenth in a sequence of quick tales and novellas all centered round particular holidays.

Every story is a vignette that stands by itself and takes place from the Twenties to 2008.

It is a quick story containing about 7,700 phrases.