Divided back, unused postcard. Circa 1952. Price: $4.00 “New! Sensational! 160 Horsepower! DeSoto Firedome 8 Engine. America’s Most Powerful Engine Design.” The reverse starts off, “More Power To You – Now!” Huh, more power to ya! Wondering how old this…Read More…
Category: Postcards
The Old Dodge Main, Hamtramck, 1940
Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked April 17, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan. Availability status: SOLD Built in 1910 and demolished in 1981, “Dodge Main” as it was commonly called, was the largest of the Chrysler plants, and located in Hamtramck, Michigan….Read More…
Greetings To Father
Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked April 11th, circa 1907, from Los Angeles, California. Publisher: The Rotograph Co. New York, New York. Copyright 1906. Series B1229. Price: $8.00 A bevy of beautiful women for Dad, for Father’s Day, which was yesterday….Read More…
Old School At The Corner Of 30th Street And….
Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1910s -1920s. AZO stamp box. Price: $8.00 A Real Photo Postcard from maybe the 1910s – ’20s of a parochial school somewhere in the United States (per the American flags in the windows…Read More…
Le Grand Chef Deskaheh
Divided back, unused. French postcard. Circa 1917 – 1925. Price: $15.00 This one definitely ties in to the previous post: An old French postcard in black and white, of a painting by N. George of Chief Deskaheh, the president of…Read More…
Writing Home From France
I’d been looking for something to put up for Memorial Day and so this and the following post are a little late. It sounds like the author of this little note to his Mom would have made it back home…Read More…
Lupe Patton, Phoenix 1923
Lupe Patton wasn’t identified in online records, as there could be several possibilities, and the same for her aunt and uncle Antonio and Lupe Rodriguez. But it’s a great photo, made into this Real Photo Postcard, of a beautiful girl…Read More…
Hotel Tres Reyes, San Carlos de Bariloche
Here’s a vintage 1950’s postcard involving two hotels: Hotel Tres Reyes in Bariloche, Argentina (the card does not do the place justice) and Hotel Monteleone, located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana – check out their film and…Read More…
Marsiana Michîl, December 1923
A Real Photo Postcard of a pretty young woman who looks to be in her early twenties, in a photo of the same era, early 1920s that is, wearing the unmistakable drop-waist dress – too bad we can’t know…Read More…
Rosa Arce, Ensenada, August 28, 1916
Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused with writing. Dated August 28, 1916. AZO stamp box. Availability status: SOLD This Real Photo Postcard from 1916 shows a graceful young woman, standing on a porch, her hand resting on the back of…Read More…