Showing posts with label color postcard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color postcard. Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2026

The Most beautiful Bridge on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

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  Allow me a bit of nostalgia.  While I've lived more than half my life in California, I did grow up in Pennsylvania and have driven the...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

The Trips Album 9

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  The other side of the previous post.  The top photo is a postcard.  As usual, when posting an album page, I show the whole page to show po...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

Musso & Frank

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    Musso & Frank is old Hollywood. It was opened in 1919 by French immigrant Firmin "Frank" Toulet. I guess Frank was easier ...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Meet Me In Paris

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   I've long been fascinated by World's Fairs but have never visited one. Many years after it closed, I was in Seattle, went up in t...
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Owl Drugs

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  Old Los Angeles.  Well, sort of.  Actually, it's Beverly Hills and while somewhat smaller, this building is still there.  Many years a...
Monday, October 9, 2023

More Later

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  I've been putting up a lot of stuff from some of the collections I have, so I decided to go to the oldest unfinished collection I have...
Monday, September 11, 2023

It's Only Fido

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  A bit of comic relief.  I have no idea how color is added to these old, photo-based postcards.  The photographic elements can be clearly s...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Pennsylvania Turnpike

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   I have a high level of confidence that the original source material for this postcard was a photograph, so I'm posting it here rather...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Pierpoint Landing

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  This postcard was never sent, so I don't have an exact date that I can reference in this post.  Just going by the cars, I'm thinki...
Friday, September 2, 2022

Along the Youghiogheny

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  Not the most exciting postcard in the world, but I grew up in western Pennsylvania, and while the Yough wasn't that close to me, I did...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet

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  Yet another postcard from the New York City World's Fair.  And the caption on the back, GENERAL MOTORS FUTURAMA BUILDING New York Worl...
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Clifton's

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   Clifton's was a cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles.  During the great depression, Clifton's had an open-door policy for everyone, ...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Once again, Pike's Peak or Bust

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  A companion piece to yesterday's post.  It's not the same photo, but clearly from the same angle.  This time a postcard that was n...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

The Vogels of Artesia, New Mexico 3

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   The last of the Vogel collection, but this one is a bit different, and the reason why I bought these three postcards.  While the other tw...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Those Spring Chicks

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   It's time to return to my longest ongoing, incomplete collection that dates back to 2013.  Anyway, I bought an envelope of postcards ...
Friday, April 1, 2022

Florida QSL Card, Sort Of

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  I'm not part of the ham radio community, so I hope I'm getting this right.  QSL cards are the way ham radio operators keep track o...