January 15, 2025
Year: 2021
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The Sad Story of Sugar Loaf Rock
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There is an adage: “… the more things change the more they stay the same.” It may be true in some cases, but when it comes to men with big ideas and lots of money, the only thing that changes is the price tag. Such was the case of Sugar Loaf Rock, a recognized landmark…
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The Humble Lemon
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The lemon, like that famous comedian, gets “no respect.” Apples do, pears do, grapes, too, but the lemon, not so much. It was once the brunt of many jokes. No one laughed if someone called them a lemon. Today, it is different. Imagine how bland life would be without lemons.
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Columbia University
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Thousands of students arrive on campuses each year to study at one of the 30+ private institutions of higher learning in New York City. King’s College was chartered in 1754 at Trinity Church, Manhattan. The name was changed to Columbia University after the American Revolution, and it is still hard at work making Americans smarter.
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Would You Like to Ride in My Beautiful Balloon?
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It is easy to imagine that cards printed around the world would be for sale around the world – Not So! Early in the first decade of the 20th century, a German artist named Hans Stövhaus painted a series of “Airship” pictures. Tuck & Sons turned his pictures into postcards for sale in Germany and…
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Peppermint Lounge: Twistin’ the Night Away
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The Peppermint Lounge was tucked away in a corner of Times Square. It was not much of a bar, but in 1962 it launched the Twist into international fame. The dance changed the paradigm. Everyone did it!
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Charles Charlesworth
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If you have paid attention, you have learned much in these last months. Some of what you have learned is patience, tolerance, perseverance, persistence, and endurance. You have learned new words like infection, disease, virus, syndrome, and Covid. Could anything be worse than Covid? Yes, read about it here.
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Crenels In America
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The first four centuries of American architecture imitated theory and practice learned in Europe. Among the most popular features Americans mimicked were the turrets, towers and crenelations found in large public structures. Many of those buildings still dot the American landscape. Postcards prove it!
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A House on Hancock Street
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Eclectic! You know the word applies to you when you are happiest searching a box of unsorted postcards at a flea-market, antiques store, or at a postcard show where some dealers have the courage to bring dime and quarter cards. Here is a dollar’s worth of cards, but a treasure chest of history.
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The Brookville Hotel
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Thousands of places in America have interesting histories. The old Central Hotel, “at the end of the line” in Brookville, Kansas, is but one. As Postcard History examines our past one postcard at a time, it may be the places that have only one postcard like the Central, later the Brookville Hotel that are the…
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A Postcard Essay
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When there are no words, or only a few, the history or a memory of one who lived before us is most important. Here are ten images that could remind the distaff side of the American family how precious memories are. If these postcards remind you of someone special, please, leave a comment.
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One and One and One is Three
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Comrades-in-Arms, be they young or old, in uniforms which announce our nationality; their actions, be they true or dreamt seem to pave a path for collectors around the world. It does not matter the kind of hat you wear; set your cap for learning from postcards – they make us all much smarter.
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Herschel Logan and the Brookville Hotel: the Rest of the Story
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The September 9th article about the Brookville Hotel featured what we thought was a one of a kind postcard. We were wrong. There is much more to the story.
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Lester Ralph
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You, the artist-signed postcard enthusiast will be pleasantly surprised if you have not encountered Lester Ralph. This son of the world-famous war correspondent, Julian Ralph has his own story of war and the pleasures of life. He also knew the delight of being married to a beautiful woman who loved to joke about the gap…
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There are no official A & P postcards!
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This single postcard teaches us history on many levels, but none allied to the American corporation that once was the world’s largest retailer: the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
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Club 82: What a Drag
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Some think the 1950s was a period of innocence. Here is a postcard history that may change your thoughts and enlighten your opinions about what was happening as the roots of diversity took hold in the subterranean nightclubs of New York. It was not like the TV programs that aired while we were doing homework…
