The Postcard Thread

[Rikki Gins]

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Here is one of those build your own message postcards.  Enjoy filling it out, but don't get dizzy.


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[anniem]

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Here is one of those build your own message postcards.  Enjoy filling it out, but don't get dizzy.
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These are fun!

[PB]

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Here is one of those build your own message postcards.  Enjoy filling it out, but don't get dizzy.

Dear:  Old Thing

I am:  Flying High

I Wish I Had:  More Ambition

Doing Lots Of:  Petting

I Have Seen:  The Indians, Cowboys, Deer, Buffalo

[Bart Ell]

Look what I got as a #Clickacy!

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I went to a different one when I was a kid.

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[anniem]

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Patricia Murphy was a famous restaurant lady.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Murphy_(restaurateur)  (Article wont load until you click on Patricia Murphy to the right of the lightbulb.)

Patricia Murphy
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[Rikki Gins]

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Postmark: Buffalo, N.Y.  Sep. 4, 1946.  5 PM.

Sept 4 - 1946
Dear Mrs. Butler,
I arrived safely.  I am
doing fine.  It is
really cold.
Expect to be back
Monday give regards
to daughter.
                Yours
A.P. Larres

[anniem]

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Postmark: Buffalo, N.Y.  Sep. 4, 1946.  5 PM.

Sept 4 - 1946
Dear Mrs. Butler,
I arrived safely.  I am
doing fine.  It is
really cold.
Expect to be back
Monday give regards
to daughter.
                Yours
A.P. Larres

The image reminds me of GhostBusters.   

[Rikki Gins]

The image reminds me of GhostBusters.   

I see a miniature Stay Puft Marshmallow Man crossing the street to the right.

[Rikki Gins]

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This postcard shows Giovanni Domenico Cassini.  He was an astronomer who lived over three hundred years ago.  He discovered four moons around Saturn.  The spaces (or divisions) in between the rings of Saturn were named after him, as well as a modern day space probe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini

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Notice the white corners on the back of the card?  That is a dead giveaway that it was once stored in a photo or postcard album.

[Bart Ell]

I see a miniature Stay Puft Marshmallow Man crossing the street to the right.

I'll see if I can identify it in the skyline in the next few days when I take a trip down that way and snap you a Polaroid, @Rikki Gins

[anniem]

I see a miniature Stay Puft Marshmallow Man crossing the street to the right.

RIGHT!   

[Rikki Gins]

I'll see if I can identify it in the skyline in the next few days when I take a trip down that way and snap you a Polaroid, @Rikki Gins

Thanks, @Bart Ell!

[Rikki Gins]

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Groesbeck, Texas  5/29/07
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groesbeck,_Texas


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Postmark: May 29, 1907
Stamp: https://stampostage.info/jamestown-commemorative-stamps-issue-of-1907/

The 1-cent contains, in a semicircular frame, the portrait of Capt. John Smith, after a painting in the Virginia State Library. In the upper corners are medallions in relief, in oval frames, of Pocahontas and Powhatan; in the lower corners, shields with the numeral “1”; upon a scroll surrounding the portrait and conforming to the semicircle is the legend, “Founding of Jamestown, 1607”; on the base, “Captain John Smith,” with the years of his birth and death, 1580-1631. In the semicircle above the head are the words “United States of America”; across the extreme top and bottom, in white letters in green panels, are the words “Commemorative series, 1907”, and “Postage, one cent.”

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Am working here
for a while.  May work at
Marlin sometime next
month.
How's everything with
you?  Wonder how many
"Scissor-Bills" are in room "22"
since we were there?
Glad I am not there now.  J.C. Rader
https://www.yourdictionary.com/scissorbill

[Rikki Gins]

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Here is perhaps one of the rarest postcards in my collection.  A real-photo postcard (a postcard made out of an actual photograph) showing an entrance way to the famous Cliff House Restaurant on the coast of San Francisco.  What really makes the card special is that it was sent by someone who identifies two ladies who posed in the picture.

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Postmark:  None, also no stamp and it appears there never was one.

Grandmother Hoffman and Aunt Eleanor in San Francisco, 1913.
           
        12/28/1913
Dear Sister: -
          This crowd
when sight seeing
had their picture
taken at the Cliff house.
Had a good trip so
far & mother is OK.
Will write more
later  love to all

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X marks the spots.  Grandmother Hoffman to the left and Aunt Eleanor to the right.