May 30, 2026
Tag: Sampson Brothers Postcards
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Come On Postcards
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In an up-coming article Postcard History readers will discover, in an article about military post office operations that mail from the homeland to the battlelines was thought by military brass to be essential and it took priority – often in front of guns and bullets. It is safe to say any mail – even nonsense…
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April 21, 2022 6 Comments
The Mambo Craze blazed through New York City nightclubs from the 1940s through the early 1960s. The influence of Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants, the extraordinary visible success of Desi Arnaz (“I Love Lucy”) and Xavier Cugat, and the comedian Cantinflas, was so great that even the staid Waldorf-Astoria Hotel featured mambo dancing.