Help me to read the text

This text on a backside of painting. Please, maybe this text written of french, please read and translate it to english.
Thank you.

 

Hate to say it but might be out of luck trying to read it. It's pretty faded.

 

For Mr (name ) and Mrs. (name) a small rememberence / souvenir of St (something place name) 28 October 1945.

Seeing the front might help with the location.

 

It was a Sunday. And -- trivia -- the next day, ballpoint pens went on sale for the first time!

Debora

 

There is a well known Japanese-American artist named Sakari Suzuki. I wonder...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakari_Suzuki

Debora

 

Given differences in mediums, appears to be same signature.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/S-SUZUKI-I...JAPAN-LANDSCAPE-OIL-PTG-KELVINS-/382263891547

Debora

 

I can't translate it, but attempted to bring it out more.....not great though.......sorry.....

 

I'm on my phone, so pretty useless with translation, but here's an interesting article http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Sakari_Suzuki/

 

Pastel? I think it is well done, I would frame and hang that in my house

 

It would be nice to identify location. Clues -- what appears to be river, pier, institutional building, blue flag, monument -- but I can't. From information on internet, seems he was based in NYC in the late 1940s. (And New York has a blue-based state flag.) Anyone?

Debora

 

@oleg01, two things: It does look like there's a spire and a monument in the background, and of course, it IS on a river....just don't know that that is enough to locate the image! Secondly, sorry for the brightness, but it was the only way I found to bring the writing on the back out a bit more.....IF it helps any more....that's about all I can do! And yes, to me it does look like French.....wasn't worried about the date, as you already know that.....

 

One thing about the possible NY location - that boat looks nothing like the kind of vessel that would have plied the waters of the Hudson or the Erie Canal in the mid-20th century.

 

The boat looks like it might be a sailing barge, for use on rivers where the masts can be folded down to pass under bridges. A Thames sailing barge, perhaps?