NATIONAL POST CARD WEEK

Saginaw Cyclecar

Comes from Lois in Michigan

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Kelly from California sent two new cards this year

above: Carolina Wren

below: Rhode Island Red

Also Artist and Author

Kelly Rysten has a new Adventure Novel out

A Shot of Trouble

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And this year we have the

GOLDEN SNOWBALL

AWARD

Sent out by Jacqueline in New York

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Betsey sends four beautiful cards 

from Virginia this year.

I must tell you the backs are just as fantastic as the fronts.

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Keep those cards coming!
 

= MAP MONDAY =

ARKANSAS

Key to views:
Left Top:  Remmel Hydro-Electric Station and Park of Lake Catherine
Left Center:  Ceder Falls on Ceder Creek, Petit Jean State Park
Left Bottom:  A Typical Arkansas Oil Field
Right Top:  Steel Observation Tower on Hot Springs Mountain
Right Center:  Federal Building, Texarkana
Right Bottom:  State Capitol, Little Rock
Arkansas with an area of 53,045 square miles supplies 
almost all the bauxite ore used in making Aluminum.

Been there...

Done that!

Was in Hot Springs Many years ago.  

Would love to go back now that I am older 

 and enjoy the Springs.

 U.S. Post Office and Court House, Texarkana, Arkansas, Texas

Man In Arkansas and His Ass in Texas

TROPICAL POST CARD CLUB

 Our Club Card for this year and 

National Post Card Week. 

It is amazing what can be done with Photoshop.

 Take two Vintage post cards, 

put them together and come up with 

one VERY special card.

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I started with a pretty background 

of a TROPICAL Sunset.

Then added a CLIPPER SHIP, 

Vintage Florida Air Liner

Our Club Name

 TROPICAL

POST CARD CLUB

and Presto-Change-O

AS IF BY MAGIC.

HAVE A HAPPY 
NATIONAL POST CARD WEEK.
Check back for new NPCW arrivals all week.

  

"SUNDAY FUNNIES"

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CONTINENTAL DIVIDE

 Signs, signs, everywhere a sign.

Yes Signs on Saturdays for awhile.

 I have crossed the divide a couple of times over the years.
Been there...

Done that!

That rainfall thing is curious.  

I would love to see it rain at the divide and watch it 

go its separate ways.

TULIP TIME

The Street Scrubbers at Tulip Time, Holland, Michigan.

 

 It took forever to find just the right video for you.

Tulip Time began more than 80 years ago.

                                   

                      

TULIP TIME

Theme for Sepia Saturday is 

Spring/May Day/Silly Dances/etc.

 

Dutch Dancers, Holland, Michigan

Posted May, 19, 1951

We have sure had a nice trip up here 

to see the tulip festival.  Four of us came up Thursday.  

I bet you thought you would never hear from me again. 

My time isn't up yet, for my painting isn't started.

Lydia

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Sepia Saturday:

TULIP TIME

What better way to celebrate Spring and May Day 

than with fields & fields of beautiful colorful Tulips.

"It's Tulip Time in Holland every year in May"

 Tulip Time, Nelis Tulip Farm, Holland, Michigan

The Mid-May blooming of three million tulips massed at the bulb farms and bordering miles of city streets provides the signal for three thousand Dutchmen to don the quaint costumes and wooden shoes of their forefathers and stage eight days of festivities.

posted Jul 28, 1941

Mon. noon

having a good time so far.  

Millers come with us. It's sure cool up here.  

Will come home wed.  Lots of good Beer.

Ruth, Geo. 

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Postcard Friendship Friday

A BITE TO EAT

THE GLASS HOUSE RESTAURANT

SOUTH HILL, VA.

The Glass House Restaurant is unique, being build almost entirely of glass brick.  It is air-conditioned and has ample free parking space.  The restaurant is operated by The Interstate Co. and is the outstanding eating-place on U.S. Highway No. 1, between New York and Miami.

ALSO OPERATED AT

MORRISVILLE, PA., and

WALTERBORO, S. C.

-MAIN STREET U.S.A.-

Do you see anyone without a hat?

FAMOUS GREEN BENCHES

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA

I have many St. Petersburg cards with the green benches.  I love them all for some reason.  The cars in this one makes it special for me.

VACANCY

Ye Colonial Inn,  

Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

Frank E. Nason, Prop.

Posted Nov. 1, 1945

Dear Friend, Thanks for Your Card.  

It is raining here today.  

Have been very ill.  And my 

letters and cards have been piled up 

on me.  Still very weak and I 

can't do much as yet. 

Sincerely,

Mrs. Leslie Twombly

Listening to the Band Concert on Casino Veranda.

 Hampton Beach, N. H.

Fabulous Florida Favorites

 It's Transportation Tuesday

Pan American Airport, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida

Globe of the Earth, Pan American Terminal Building

Pan American Airways 32 Passenger 

"Flying Clipper Ship"

Off to West Indies and South America from Miami.

= MAP MONDAY =

TOURISTS'  

AUTO MAP  

OF 
CAPE COD

Let's visit Provincetown 

all the way out to the tip of Cape Cod.

Provincetown Harbor, from Pilgrim Memorial Monument, Provincetown, Mass.

Drying fishing nets along the shore of Provincetown, 

Cape Cod, Mass.

Picturesque Provincetown, Cape Cod, Mass

That's Cape Cod

Bernice Hall Legg 

You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod.

"SUNDAY FUNNIES"

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* SUNDAY STAMPS *

Theme for Sunday Stamps this week is Children 

and what better way to help Children than 

UNICEF

Above is a First Day Cover Celebrating 

the 20th Anniversary of Unicef

United Nations Children's Fund

Post Marked:

United Nations

New York

November, 28, 1966

Did You Trick or Treat for UNICEF when you were a child?

I probably did in 1961. 

That is the year the Stamp below was issued.

OMG that is more than 50 years ago.

Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of

United Nations Children's Fun

Post Marked:

United Nations

New York

December, 4 1961

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Sepia Saturday

I am going to change the content of my post today.  

Instead of Linen Post Cards I am participating in Sepia Saturday.  

It's a review of images from our past.  These are personal photos of family and friends.  

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"HAPPY DAYS"

By the mid 50s 

Men's Hairstyles became very important 

for your image.

And they could change from one day to the next 

with the help of a little dab of "brill creme" 

and the flip of a rat tail comb.

That was my oldest brother Ralph "Pluke" by the way and not Fonzy.

This is him again with a 

High School crush around 1959.

Those are probably flat front bright pastel colored polished cotton high waters with a cuff he is wearing. Up to the minute fashion statement.  My guess is Her Sundress probably matches what he is wearing somehow, maybe a crisp turquoise cotton etc..

Girls wore lots of starched petty coats, 

just one more than her friends did.

For that extra Poof one needs to be in fashion.

This Picture was taken about 1961

at our church Valentines Banquet I think.  

They are friends of Jerry my middle brother.

Fun fact: The shortest girl you see there became a High School teacher and for years has secretly been writing Romance Novels.

I was too young to be out and partying; 

but still had the chance to be exposed to all the 

fun, fashion, and music through my older brothers.
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