January 15, 2025
Year: 2021
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Postcard History-First Sunday Mystery Card-August 2021
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It is the First Sunday of the month and here is another mystery to solve! There is lots of fun to be found in the English language. Here is an idiom for all of us!
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Charles W. Goldsmith’s Official-Columbian Exposition Postal Cards
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Exposition postcards are quite popular among many collectors. Remember, the first government postals were issued at the Columbian Expo in 1893. Some events are rare, but there is an ample supply of most events and those that are common are priced reasonably. Expos and World Fairs are great topics when you’re ready to start a…
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Omaha’s Blackstone Hotel-A History and Mystery
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Hotel histories mirror much of America’s business, industry, and society. The Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, is a perfect example of how wealth and opportunity lace the pages of history together. It is a happy circumstance that those pages are illustrated with vintage postcards.
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New York’s 1913 Armory Show
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It’s been called the most important art exhibition held in the United States. The 1913 Armory Art show sponsored by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors changed the minds of Americans interested in modern art. The doors were open 12 hours a day for a month and postcards led a flood of art lovers…
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Connect the Dots
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Today, children of all ages have handheld games that buzz, chirp, bong, or chime. Some even speak in several languages. The games are user friendly. Press a button and the game tells the user how to play, what to do, and if the instruction is followed . . . well, sorry, I don’t know what…
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Old Ship Card Shows Great History
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History of the mail, the jargon of the seas, travel on steamships, and postcard collecting are all topics discussed in this fabulous article that aptly illustrates the learning we can enjoy by reading and researching one single postcard. The topic this time centers on the S.S. Mongolia.
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Colorado’s Garden of the Gods
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Tony Crumbley Colorado’s Garden of the Gods As a young airman in the mid-1960s, I discovered The Garden of the Gods. To me it is the most unusual landscape in the world. With its rock formations, balanced rocks and vivid bright red color, it leaves one wondering how this could have been created. In 1859,…
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The Sho-Gun – A 1904 Broadway Comic Opera
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The Sho-Gun, a 1904 comic opera played to crowded theater across America. It was the best laugh in town.
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The Bees, their Honey, the Moon + Love & Marriage = Honeymoon
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Honeymoons have happened since ancient times. Postcards have been used to announce a marriage and have had a great time at it.
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August 17th is Black Cat Appreciation Day
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There are people who love dogs. There are people who love cats. Then there’s an architecture professor from Scotland, and he wants you to know that tomorrow (Tuesday, August 17th) is National Black Cat Appreciation Day. Nate claims black cats don’t deserve the “bum rap” they get from society. Maybe he is right!
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David Livingstone, Missionary
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Our resident contributor from the homeland of Dr. David Livingstone has found a postcard that generated new interests in the London Missionary Society and the work of a martyr and his title character.
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Collecting McDonald’s Postcards
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Today’s author cautions his readers, “Don’t throw away your junk mail, there is someone out there, who wants if for his collection.” The Golden Arches of McDonald are popular American landmarks. Fast food, a hallmark of American society, didn’t begin at McDonalds, but got a big push from them.
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Messages by Regular Folk on 1918 Pandemic Postcards
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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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A Story of an Old Hotel
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The piles of postcards showing hotels that no longer serve overnight guests or meals enjoyed by the locals is getting higher by the minute. Just think of all the beautiful architecture that now rests in the trash heaps of society. Historians, weep with me!
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The Great White Fleet
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What a thrill it must have been to be at the Chamberlin Hotel in December 1907. You had a front-row seat at one of America’s proudest moments – the launch of the Great White Fleet. Twenty-one of the US Navy’s finest vessels set sail in a formation that was seven miles long.
