Showing posts with label pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pennsylvania. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2026

Howard's Photos, Altoona

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  The only reason I bought this Cabinet Card is because I grew up an hour's drive or so from Altoona, Pennsylvania.  I'm also fascin...
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...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Greenwood Cemetary

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  A bit of an apology on this one.  Stereoview cards have a curve to them.  The card stock on this one is thick, and so even after putting a...
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...
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...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

R. E. Stadelman, The Snake Guy

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  Written on the back, "R.E. Stadelman & Todos Santos Indians at 116 Palace Hotel, Guat. City, Nov. 29, 1940.  R.E.S. & T.S....
Thursday, December 30, 2021

The Reading Pagoda

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  Navigate back to the beginning of the month, and you'll find a post about the Grand View Ship Hotel, a local tourist attraction from w...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Erie Catholics 2

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  All three of these photos are labeled, "Elizabeth Gibson, Erie PA."  The same Elizabeth Gibson mentioned in the first post of th...

Erie Catholics 1

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  I haven't put up a multi-part collection in a while, so here goes.  There are only nine images, so I'll post three parts, three ph...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

The Grand View Ship Hotel

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   I used to visit this place when I was growing up.  I can remember that it was on the side of a mountain, and yes it was a pretty good vie...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Music To My Ears 7

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I had hoped to use the name of the act to hunt down some actual information about this duo but the best I could find was the location of...
Tuesday, April 9, 2019

More Swapped Photographers

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  Every time I run across a group shot, whether it's two, three or more people, I always know that one member of the group did...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Welcome to the Civic Arena

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This one brings back memories.   I grew up in  small town fifty or so miles from downtown Pittsburgh, just close enough to make the occa...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Going to the Dogs

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I've seen horse races on television and once, live.  I've never seen a dog race, and it doesn't look like I ever will.  In t...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Vote For Hugh-Hugh's For You

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At least that's what it says on the back of the card.  I was born in Pennsylvania, and for much of my early life, Hugh Scott, Jr. wa...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

The Aerotrain

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What can I say?  I like trains.  The Aerotrain wasn't a very successful model.  Part of it was that the age of passenger rail was in...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Light Rail In Pittsburgh

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I grew up in a small town about fifty miles from downtown Pittsburgh.  We didn't make many trips to the city, but when we did, I alw...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Ladies, Parasols, and Burning Oil

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It may be necessary to click on the image and bring it up in a bigger window to see, but there are ladies, with parasols who have come o...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Pittsburgh and the Point Bridge

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If I had thought this on going series of riverside postcards through, I would have posted this with the the Mount Washington Incline car...