It wasn't this:
When I was a kid in the late 1950s, I loved Zorro! He was my hero. And I wanted to write to him. I knew the TV show was made in Hollywood, and that Zorro's real name was Don Diego. So I wrote a letter, put it in an envelope, and addressed it:
Some time went by, and one day a large manilla envelope arrived for Dale Lund, from Hollywood, California! I was so excited! But inside there was only a large B&W photograph of an actor who played Zorro, in regular American clothes, signed Guy Williams.
Who is Guy Williams? I complained to my parents, and they told me the truth. My bubble was popped. But I still like Zorro.
P.S. The postal service was better then. No address (zip codes didn't come into play until a few years afterwards); not the real name; and still my letter was delivered to the right place. And as late as 1979, when I was running the American Tarantula Society, a letter was correctly delivered to me simply addressed: Spider Man, Bellingham, Washington.
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