The Postcard Thread

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These cards are fun to read...

These are adorable! Nice find...

Turns out there were 12 postcards in the series.  Here are the other four.


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1907 humor, some fruits and vegies are more identifiable than others:  cantaloupe, carrot, peach, turnip

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I remember them.
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Winchester Mystery House
   Near San Jose  Before the Earthquake

This must be one of the photo postcards Rik has mentioned.  The back is faint, it's unused.


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The faint image on top of the tower on the far left is a trotting horse weathervane

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Turns out it was extensively damaged in the 1906 earthquake.  The big central tower came down and was never rebuilt.

The postcard photo on the linked page is same one, but the wording on the front is rearranged

https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/kt1x0nc9v2/

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Winchester Mystery House
   Near San Jose  Before the Earthquake

This must be one of the photo postcards Rik has mentioned.  The back is faint, it's unused.


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The faint image on top of the tower on the far left is a trotting horse weathervane

I have been there!

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I have been there!

That must have been fun.  Was it scary?

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That must have been fun.  Was it scary?

No, it was only strange. There were stairs that went up to a ceiling. There was a door on the second floor that went outside, but no steps. Doors opened to walls, and windows inside the house. I found some photos...
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No, it was only strange. There were stairs that went up to a ceiling. There was a door on the second floor that went outside, but no steps. Doors opened to walls, and windows inside the house...

I begged my mom to take me when we visited an uncle who lived nearby.  As a kid going on a tour of an old rambling kooky house, it ended up being pretty dull.

A few years ago a friend wanted to go and I reluctantly agreed.  Gosh it was expensive, something like $30.  I guess the interesting part for me was seeing antique furniture, machinery, etc.

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I begged my mom to take me when we visited an uncle who lived nearby.  As a kid going on a tour of an old rambling kooky house, it ended up being pretty dull.

A few years ago a friend wanted to go and I reluctantly agreed.  Gosh it was expensive, something like $30.  I guess the interesting part for me was seeing antique furniture, machinery, etc.

I heard the price had gone way up. It's an old building, I enjoy seeing those along with the odd stuff. After that we went to the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot, that was different, and more fun.

https://www.mysteryspot.com/history/

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Les Eaux Douces d'Asie, Bosphore Constantinople
(The fresh waters of Asia)

Check out the Crusader castles in the background.

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Pointe du Serail, Constantinople
(Where the Bosporus meets the Black Sea)

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Neither of these have stamps, and appear to have been sent without them - although the bottom-right corner on the front of the second one is torn, could have been a small stamp there

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Les Eaux Douces d'Asie, Bosphore Constantinople
(The fresh waters of Asia)
Check out the Crusader castles in the background.
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Pointe du Serail, Constantinople
(Where the Bosporus meets the Black Sea)
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Neither of these have stamps, and appear to have been sent without them - although the bottom-right corner on the front of the second one is torn, could have been a small stamp there

These are quite good.

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A friend gave me some French postcards that show portraits of noted French people.  This one shows artist Jean De Troy. 
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A friend gave me some French postcards that show portraits of noted French people.  This one shows artist Jean De Troy.

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These white powdered wigs always crack me up.  There must be a backstory about how they came to be fashionable. 

To quote George Costanza when he found out all men wore hats in Victorian England, ''What a bald paradise that must have been.  Nobody knew.''

I saw a warmup band in a small club one time with all the band members dressed like this, including the wigs - they were having a great time, that's for sure.  Where would anyone even find the clothes and the wigs?