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Winter Memories – Coal, Heat, and Postcards
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The young generations have no experience with coal. They don’t know that keeping warm with coal was demanding work. Because coal was a major U.S. source of energy for almost three centuries, it also found its way onto postcards. This account may not refresh your memory, but it will certainly make you happy that shoveling…
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The Declaration of Independence
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The Declaration of Independence is 246 years old today. It may be a difficult read but it still works for everyone.
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The Joy of Finding One Single Postcard
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Postcard collectors have cards that remind them of other personal treasures. This is such a story. For 41 years a very special painting hung on the walls of a London flat. Then a few months ago a postcard was discovered in California that reminded the picture’s owner of the treasure he was forced to sell…
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Banks Built in the Dutch Style
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When I was a young lad of twelve, my teacher gave our class an assignment to create a career book.
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Cookie Cutter Stadiums – Part II
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We know how “cookie cutter” stadiums complicated the marriage of baseball and football in the mid-20th century. Here’s the rest of the story.
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Charley Glidden’s Road Tours
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Enchanting! That was the word used by one observer as a parade of cars left New York City at 3 o’clock Friday afternoon, September 8, 1911, on the annual Glidden Tour. Millions watched as the cars passed through the eleven cities itinerary before their destination in Jacksonville on September 19. Postcards recorded almost every mile.
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Are You Ready for Some Football? – Part III
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Football season is upon us! Americans go crazy-nuts over football every fall when we return to school, where teams are formed, and every game on every campus is an excuse to have a party. A playwright once described the sport as “little wars, fought by friends.” Go, Team!!
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Give My Regards to Broadway
Act 4American Theater Achieves Greatness
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Act IV in this series by Hy Mirampolski explores the way the after the Great War American audiences finally became comfortable with the engaged theatrical innovations that emanated from Europe and tells how Off-Broadway has lasted for years as an environment where innovation in theme, character and production has taken place.
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The Columbian Trio Concert Company
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The story of the Columbian Trio Concert Company would be long forgotten were it not for postcards. Concert events that happened more than 100 years ago and the people who performed, if they were left to the newspapers would never be a part of the social history they created. Once again postcard history carries the…
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The Blue Truck
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The Blue Truck is an Alabama legend based on a true story. The names are fictional, but the 1938 Chevrolet, one-half ton pickup truck was real and was a truck with style. Some say it was the most attractive and impressive looking truck of the early 20th century.
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Jefferson Randolph Smith
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If it is a history book from which we learn of our past, it is often difficult to tell the good guys from the bad. That wasn’t the case when it came to Jefferson “Soapy” Smith. Everyone who knew him thought he was a bad guy and they have written of his antics to reflect…
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The Story of Edson Keith
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The end of us means very little when success, hard work, and money are stirred together in a routine called “life” and then disease is added. The life of Edson Keith was like that, but he is remembered for the beauty he created, not the tragic end of his life.
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Sarasota, Florida
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This is the perfect time-of-year to dream of sunshine, cloudless skies, and zephyrs of warm gulf air moving across central Florida. And Sarasota is the perfect place to visit if you care to make the trip. Otherwise, Postcard History offers you a tour of that fair city with a postcard journey.
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Arthur Moreland and his Homage to Dickens
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Many postcard collectors enjoy a challenge. Finding postcards signed by Arthur Moreland could be one of your challenges if you have a interest in early 20th-century historic, political, and sports cartoons and illustrations. You may need to find a dealer with strong ties to the UK.
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Lost Ballparks
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In an old tattered and torn library book entitled My Favorite American Sports Memories, the author recounted 16 stories of his days as a kid growing up in Brooklyn, New York. He became a syndicated sports columnist with a wide audience. Seven of the stories were about baseball games played in the 1920s and ‘30s.…
