December 7, 2025
Tag: theme parks
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The Mansfield Bar
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The press said Jayne Mansfield was decapitated when her car rear-ended a semi. It wasn’t true, but a movement arose to put safety bars on the rear of every truck. And they’re called . . .
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The Jim and Tammy Bakker Story
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Jim and Tammy Bakker were people who created a stage that paved a pathway to believe in something. To others that belief bordered on the outlandish. We pass no judgements here, but sometimes, Postcard History is not all rose petals and gum-drops.
Past Article
August 31, 2020 7 Comments
Offers of free gifts that motivate customers to become involved with a product or brand is not the invention of internet advertisers. Advertising postcards have been around since the start of the postcard era. During the 1950s and 1960s, postcards offering free gifts were popular as a “business-to-customer” method of sales communication. The emergence of full-color printing (“chromes”) enabled images to be crisp, colorful, and bright.