The Postcard Thread

[Rikki Gins]

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Another Atlantic City, New Jersey postcard for anniem.  From the postcard auction on eBay.

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Postmark date: Aug. 11

Hi Dot.
     This winds up
my vacation.  Am
having a nice time.
Am spending the
weekend here.
                Minnie

[anniem]

The cooks look like Stan & Ollie.

Ha, they do!

[PolkaDot]

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Another Atlantic City, New Jersey postcard for anniem.  From the postcard auction on eBay.

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Postmark date: Aug. 11

Hi Dot.
     This winds up
my vacation.  Am
having a nice time.
Am spending the
weekend here.
                Minnie

Ahh! She timetraveled to send me a post a!?! Amazing!

[Rikki Gins]

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Before I die, I want to go down to Knott's Berry Farm and have a conversation with Sad-Eye Joe.

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[PB]

This postcard has gold glitter highlights on the haystacks, the lettering, and the entire round object behind her.  Not sure if it's the sun, harvest moon, or even a halo?

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The small print al bottom left reads: Copyright, John Winsch, 1910


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Dear Ethel:
  Well how
is school by this
time?  We are not
going home.
  Thanksgiving
sure would (?)
(?) and they think
of all the turkey we
will miss (?) !  Yes
hows Mac Ha. ha.
Regards tel your
folks.  Tell Harry
he had better (?)
(?) card.


At top, upside down:

(?)
(?)
Lovingly
  Vida

[PB]

To the right of the stamp, it says 'Printed in Germany'.

In narrowing down the date, it seems likely it would have been purchased sometime between the 1910 copyright date, and our entry in WWI in 1917.  Perhaps not much later than the start of the war in 1914.

[anniem]

This postcard has gold glitter highlights on the haystacks, the lettering, and the entire round object behind her.  Not sure if it's the sun, harvest moon, or even a halo?

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The small print al bottom left reads: Copyright, John Winsch, 1910


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Dear Ethel:
  Well how
is school by this
time?  We are not
going home.
  Thanksgiving
sure would (?)
(?) and they think
of all the turkey we
will miss (?) !  Yes
hows Mac Ha. ha.
Regards tel your
folks.  Tell Harry
he had better (?)
(?) card.


At top, upside down:

(?)
(?)
Lovingly
  Vida

I can't make the upside down bit either.

[Rikki Gins]

1. We are not going home Thanksgiving. Sure would like to.

2. O! (oh?)

3. Tell Harry he had better ans.. (answer) my card.

Upside down part: answer soon.

[anniem]

1. We are not going home Thanksgiving. Sure would like to.

2. O! (oh?)

3. Tell Harry he had better ans.. (answer) my card.

Upside down part: answer soon.

You are the expert!
My husband and I have been watching Columbo. I did not know you were also an actor. 

[Rikki Gins]

You are the expert!
My husband and I have been watching Columbo. I did not know you were also an actor. 

Thank you for saying that, anniem, and thanks to PB for posting the nice postcard.  I would have liked to have been an actor.  I might have mentioned before that I spent an entire summer living in Hollywood.  I wasn't an actor but I sure got to see a bunch of actors who were active during the 1960s.  I like Peter Falk as Columbo too..  I would be happy to explain why I picked him as an avatar, if you are interested.

[PB]

1. We are not going home Thanksgiving. Sure would like to.

2. O! (oh?)

3. Tell Harry he had better ans.. (answer) my card.

Upside down part: answer soon.

Wow Rik, that's really good, thanks!

The garage sale collection only has postcards from a few holidays - Valentine's Day, Easter, Christmas - but there were also a handful of Thanksgiving cards.

Here are two more - made by the same printer as the one above, designed by the same artist.  The first one doesn't have any writing on the back.

The first one has gold glitter highlights throughout the image, the second has some around the edges and lettering only

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[PB]

Thank you for saying that, anniem, and thanks to PB for posting the nice postcard.  I would have liked to have been an actor.  I might have mentioned before that I spent an entire summer living in Hollywood.  I wasn't an actor but I sure got to see a bunch of actors who were active during the 1960s.  I like Peter Falk as Columbo too..  I would be happy to explain why I picked him as an avatar, if you are interested.

Columbo was classic TV at it's most classic!  I saw him in an interview once, and he said something about the producers telling him to go out on the lot and choose any car he wanted for the show.  Instead of some flashy sports car or sleek sedan, he chose an older, beat-up Peugeot (ratty but with it's own unique style) he thought best suited the Columbo character.  Yes, why did you choose him as an avatar?


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[anniem]

Thank you for saying that, anniem, and thanks to PB for posting the nice postcard.  I would have liked to have been an actor.  I might have mentioned before that I spent an entire summer living in Hollywood. 

Oh, I missed that. Did you like living there?

I wasn't an actor but I sure got to see a bunch of actors who were active during the 1960s.  I like Peter Falk as Columbo too..  I would be happy to explain why I picked him as an avatar, if you are interested.

I am definitely interested. Please explain.

[Rikki Gins]

@PB and @anniem
In all my years of collecting stuff, I would spend lots of time at flea markets and antique shops.  In one antique shop, I walked into a back room that had miscellaneous items stacked on a table and shelves.  The stuff hadn't been sorted out, and wasn't a part of the main store, but they were still for sale, if you happened to find something that you might have wanted.  There was a container full of photographs that had a 25¢ per picture on the outside of the box and so I went through them all.  They were basically old black and white pictures from people's family albums but there were some more modern colored photos too.  After awhile, I found a nice colored picture of Bob Hope, standing in a restaurant with his wife and talking to a lady (possibly an actress) who was seated at a table.  I made sure to buy that picture.  Then I found two color photos of Peter Falk.  One, showing him leisurely posing in front of a plant with lights, (my avatar) and another where he seemed to be making an entrance along with a pretty blonde haired lady who I think might possibly be his second wife, Shera Danese.  The pictures have a month and year (Feb 1980) stamped on the back of them, so I like to think that they are the original photos that were developed and that I legally own them since I bought them for a quarter a piece, right? haha.  Anyway, when Bart decided to start EllGab up, I thought it would be fun to use the Peter Falk photo as my avatar. I do enjoy using it because I like how Peter's left eye (his good one) carefully looks over what I post. 

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[anniem]

@PB and @anniem
In all my years of collecting stuff, I would spend lots of time at flea markets and antique shops.  In one antique shop, I walked into a back room that had miscellaneous items stacked on a table and shelves.  The stuff hadn't been sorted out, and wasn't a part of the main store, but they were still for sale, if you happened to find something that you might have wanted.  There was a container full of photographs that had a 25¢ per picture on the outside of the box and so I went through them all.  They were basically old black and white pictures from people's family albums but there were some more modern colored photos too.  After awhile, I found a nice colored picture of Bob Hope, standing in a restaurant with his wife and talking to a lady (possibly an actress) who was seated at a table.  I made sure to buy that picture.  Then I found two color photos of Peter Falk.  One, showing him leisurely posing in front of a plant with lights, (my avatar) and another where he seemed to be making an entrance along with a pretty blonde haired lady who I think might possibly be his second wife, Shera Danese.  The pictures have a month and year (Feb 1980) stamped on the back of them, so I like to think that they are the original photos that were developed and that I legally own them since I bought them for a quarter a piece, right? haha.  Anyway, when Bart decided to start EllGab up, I thought it would be fun to use the Peter Falk photo as my avatar. I do enjoy using it because I like how Peter's left eye (his good one) carefully looks over what I post. 

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Excellent! Very cool.
Is that a Christmas tree?