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Rikki Gins

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #480 on: October 10, 2018, 04:37:59 PM »
Alas Rikki...the original Heritage Inn is no more.  I think it was torn down several years ago.  Turned into a dive before that.  One of the big chains was to purchase it.  They may have rebuilt on the lot under another name.

Well that's too bad.  Appreciate the update, Shay.

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« Reply #481 on: October 10, 2018, 04:51:23 PM »
A couple of tree postcards.

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I don't recall bidding on this particular postcard but there it is in my shoebox.  Some palm trees down on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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Soldier boy Billy got to send a postcard from his camp, free of charge.  Notice the cancellation mark going over where the stamp should have been

I think the cancellation date is July 2, 1942.  Vicente Fox, that former Mexican president was born on this day.  Also, the German 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army met at Stary Oskol, (Russia) but no Soviet forces were encircled.

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« Reply #482 on: October 11, 2018, 06:12:27 PM »
I love how, in art and postcards you can see changes in the "ideal female body type" of the eras.

And not just postcards, the ''Venus of Willendorf'' represents the feminine ideal in 30,000 BC.


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« Reply #483 on: October 11, 2018, 06:20:08 PM »
This lady was fashioned just 10,000 years ago, giving us great insight to changes in the ideal over the vast time period between her and Venus


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« Reply #484 on: October 13, 2018, 06:27:57 PM »
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Author Jack Kerouac died on the day that this card was being mailed.

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« Reply #485 on: October 13, 2018, 06:39:26 PM »


Author Jack Kerouac died on the day that this card was being mailed.

Gertrude and Otto.  What awesome names for a couple!

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« Reply #486 on: October 14, 2018, 07:10:40 PM »
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I like the looks of this plane.  It's from an outfit called Piedmont Airlines.


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« Reply #487 on: October 14, 2018, 07:58:22 PM »
And not just postcards, the ''Venus of Willendorf'' represents the feminine ideal in 30,000 BC.


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It is probably a goddess.  I am not sure any of the well-known representations of God from western culture represent a physical ideal, at least in the sense of desirability.

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« Reply #488 on: October 14, 2018, 09:05:17 PM »
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« Reply #489 on: October 15, 2018, 03:51:23 PM »
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Nice Halloween cards, Spookcat.

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« Reply #490 on: October 15, 2018, 04:06:01 PM »
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Here is a unique postcard put out by the Kellogg Company, sponsor of the Tom Breneman 'Breakfast in Hollywood' radio show. Of course that's Eddie Cantor there on the left.  (Ton's radio show was such a success that he opened an equally succesful restaurant in Hollywood.)

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Breneman Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Breneman
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« Reply #491 on: October 17, 2018, 07:56:19 PM »
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Here is Jesus at The Last Supper.  It's a close up shot and that's why you only see two of his disciples.  Josef Meier played Jesus and he, with his wife and some other actors, put on a full scale rendition of The Passion Play.  They had a big amphitheater set up in South Dakota and performed the play there during the Summer months and when Winter arrived, they moved the show to Florida.  Josef and his wife Clare are long gone and so is the amphitheater, which was done in by vandals.

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #492 on: October 19, 2018, 04:02:32 PM »
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I have always wanted to go to Las Vegas and gamble away my pitiful savings at the Mint Casino.  I was attracted to the Mint, not for it's association with money, but for the mental image I would get of those tasty peppermint patties that you can find at the checkout counters at restaurants.  I figured that if I could win a couple hundred thousand bucks gambling, I could treat myself to a steak and tip the cashier lady a couple hundred dollars and she would let me grab a handful of the mints without charging me.  But alas, the Mint isn't there anymore.  It got sold off back in the 1980s.  Too bad, because there was a steak house located near the top of the casino.

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« Reply #493 on: October 19, 2018, 04:17:58 PM »
I have always wanted to go to Las Vegas and gamble away my pitiful savings at the Mint Casino.  I was attracted to the Mint, not for it's association with money, but for the mental image I would get of those tasty peppermint patties that you can find at the checkout counters at restaurants.  I figured that if I could win a couple hundred thousand bucks gambling, I could treat myself to a steak and tip the cashier lady a couple hundred dollars and she would let me grab a handful of the mints without charging me.  But alas, the Mint isn't there anymore.  It got sold off back in the 1980s.  Too bad, because there was a steak house located near the top of the casino.

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Re: The Postcard Thread
« Reply #494 on: October 19, 2018, 08:49:45 PM »
I have always wanted to go to Las Vegas and gamble away my pitiful savings at [Del Webb's] Mint Casino.  I was attracted to the Mint, not for it's association with money, but for the mental image I would get of those tasty peppermint patties that you can find at the checkout counters at restaurants.  I figured that if I could win a couple hundred thousand bucks gambling, I could treat myself to a steak and tip the cashier lady a couple hundred dollars and she would let me grab a handful of the mints without charging me...   

In addition to his many other endeavors, Del Webb once owned the New York Yankees - purchasing them from the Jake Ruppert Estate in 1945 (the man who acquired Babe Ruth) with partners he soon bought out, and selling them to CBS in 1964.  The Yankees won the World Series 11 of those 20 years, and were on the losing end another 5.

CBS of course ran them into the ground, and they didn't go back to the post season again until 1976 in the Steinbrenner era