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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #1020 on: April 05, 2019, 06:18:01 PM »
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« Reply #1021 on: April 05, 2019, 07:06:23 PM »
For Easter 1907, a Mrs Grady Safford staying at the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in Atlantic City received this postcard from Springfield MA.

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« Reply #1022 on: April 05, 2019, 07:16:17 PM »
Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel - built 1906, demolished 1978.

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« Reply #1023 on: April 05, 2019, 08:47:02 PM »
For Easter 1907, a Mrs Grady Safford staying at the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in Atlantic City received this postcard from Springfield MA.

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'Our Egg-cellent Army'  Ha, I really dig this postcard.

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« Reply #1024 on: April 07, 2019, 10:11:57 AM »
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« Reply #1025 on: April 07, 2019, 10:13:35 AM »
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« Reply #1026 on: April 07, 2019, 10:15:41 AM »
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Gone now, sign defaced, a Mexican restaurant in its place. :'(



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« Reply #1027 on: April 07, 2019, 11:43:06 PM »
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I bid on some QSL "I confirm reception" citizen band CB radio postcards this week and out of 22 bids, I won 21.  Also, since nobody else bid on 20 of them, I was able to purchase them at the minimum bid price of 50 cents a piece.  So who cares about CB radio postcards you might ask?  Well, I like them for their cover designs, which can range from the simple to the elaborate.  I like the ones that show lightning bolts coming out of the antennas and cards that show actual photos of the radio operators.  So, all in all I did pretty good on the weeks auction, except for the card shown above.  Somebody must have really wanted it because after my intial 50 cent bid, two other bidders fought over it until it sold for $7.39. I don't see what is so special about it myself, it really isn't in all that good of shape.  Perhaps it was the radio operator's name that might have meant something to the winning bidder, like a relative or a friend of the family?   

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Or perhaps somebody used to work at Moline's Shell Service?

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« Reply #1028 on: April 08, 2019, 10:37:02 AM »
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« Reply #1031 on: April 09, 2019, 11:14:04 PM »
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Some interesting memories of people who ate or worked at Putnam & Thurston's: http://www.worcestermass.com/places/putnam.shtml

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« Reply #1032 on: April 10, 2019, 10:06:37 AM »
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« Reply #1033 on: April 10, 2019, 06:23:57 PM »
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I remember this postcard from an earlier auction.  I also remember that I didn't bid on it.  My pareidolic vision has me seeing a rock in the shape of a bear, lurking in the bushes back there.

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« Reply #1034 on: April 11, 2019, 12:00:51 AM »
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Sat. Evening
Still sorry you couldn't have stayed longer.  Johnny let me drive down to the office this morning!!  See what you missed???  - Went looking for houses this afternoon.  There sure are some beautties beauties.  Hope we can get one.  I'll write later tomorrow or Monday.  Hope you got home OK - K.C.