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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #1335 on: July 24, 2019, 11:17:40 PM »
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« Reply #1336 on: July 24, 2019, 11:27:38 PM »
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Don’t let @Bart Ell see the pies
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« Reply #1337 on: July 24, 2019, 11:35:50 PM »
Don’t let @Bart Ell see the pies

At least the postcard had the decency to mention generously frosted, tender layer cakes.

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« Reply #1338 on: July 25, 2019, 05:07:43 AM »
At least the postcard had the decency to mention generously frosted, tender layer cakes.

Yes.
That was almost enough for me to not hate them
Almost.


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« Reply #1339 on: July 26, 2019, 01:38:17 PM »
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Another card that got away from me.  Wish that I had bid higher on it.

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« Reply #1340 on: July 27, 2019, 01:46:52 PM »
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« Reply #1341 on: July 30, 2019, 11:27:00 PM »
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« Reply #1342 on: August 01, 2019, 11:41:40 PM »
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I like everything from the 1950s.  Even church attendance reminder postcards.

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Stamp cancellation date:  November 24, 1955.

A hearty welcome to the
Rally Day Program
at the Tonawanda
Free Methodist Church.
Nov. 27 - 10 A M.
You will find a
real welcome at the
services.
       Mrs. Skuce.


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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #1343 on: August 01, 2019, 11:56:53 PM »
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I like everything from the 1950s.  Even church attendance reminder postcards.

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Stamp cancellation date:  November 24, 1955.

A hearty welcome to the
Rally Day Program
at the Tonawanda
Free Methodist Church.
Nov. 27 - 10 A M.
You will find a
real welcome at the
services.
       Mrs. Skuce.


My son’s mother was born in North Tonawanda. Tonawanda is between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. One of her uncles was the Captain on the Maid of the Mist

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #1344 on: August 02, 2019, 12:37:59 AM »
My son’s mother was born in North Tonawanda. Tonawanda is between Niagara Falls and Buffalo. One of her uncles was the Captain on the Maid of the Mist

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Interesting.  Just the other day I read an account of a seven year old kid who survived a fall from the Horseshoe Falls, fifty plus years ago.  Of course it was a total miracle that he survived the fall, but he still would never had made it if the Maid of the Mist hadn't been close by to pluck him out of the water.   https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700049026/50-years-later-survivor-recalls-accidental-plunge-over-Niagara-Falls.html 

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #1345 on: August 02, 2019, 01:12:53 AM »
Interesting.  Just the other day I read an account of a seven year old kid who survived a fall from the Horseshoe Falls, fifty plus years ago.  Of course it was a total miracle that he survived the fall, but he still would never had made it if the Maid of the Mist hadn't been close by to pluck him out of the water.   https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700049026/50-years-later-survivor-recalls-accidental-plunge-over-Niagara-Falls.html

The one I rode on when he was Captain was Maid of the Mist III in 1977.
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« Reply #1346 on: August 02, 2019, 04:44:33 PM »
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A postcard showing the United States Steel Building at the 1939 New York World's Fair from this week's postcard auction.

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« Reply #1347 on: August 04, 2019, 12:01:12 AM »
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Hard to believe, but I think the original Lobster Shanty (1957) is still there.    https://www.pointpleasantlobstershanty.com/about-us.php

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #1348 on: August 04, 2019, 04:15:30 AM »
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Hard to believe, but I think the original Lobster Shanty (1957) is still there.    https://www.pointpleasantlobstershanty.com/about-us.php

My father had a friend who owned a home in Point Pleasant Beach. We'd vacation there in the summers. Do not remember going to this restaurant, though.

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« Reply #1349 on: August 05, 2019, 08:58:33 PM »
My father had a friend who owned a home in Point Pleasant Beach. We'd vacation there in the summers. Do not remember going to this restaurant, though.

That must have been fun, anniem.  I don't know if the restaurant has the same setup, but in the past, they had some really big tanks that held hundreds of lobsters.  I would guess that they still use them to this day.