• Motel Chains That Didn’t Make It

    Motel Chains That Didn’t Make It

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    As Americans traveled the new national highways in the 1950s and ‘60s, they discovered several motel chains. Some have lasted, but others went defunct in just a few years for many different reasons.

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  • Fences

    Fences

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    The American poet, Robert Frost, wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors.” When he penned that line (1914) did he think about how many kinds of fences would appear in the future? Postcards answer the question and the answer is, “many.”

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  • A Fiery Horse with the Speed of Light, a Cloud of Dust and a Hearty Hi-Yo Silver!

    A Fiery Horse with the Speed of Light, a Cloud of Dust and a Hearty Hi-Yo Silver!

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    Surely you know who rode a horse who was “Fiery,” could run with the speed of light, and answered to the name, “Silver.” In the 1950 the Lone Ranger was ABC’s first blockbuster.

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Past Article

Oliver Pollak
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Epidemics, pandemics, outbreaks, plagues, or scourges? How many words in English spell h-a-r-d–t-i-m-e-s? For centuries virus and disease have been topics we think about, talk about, and write about. Here are some postcard messages from “regular folk” writing about their “hard times.”

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