This is an update to a post done on July 9, 2009 . In October of 2014 I received an interesting comment from a reader. The fella has now ...

On May 26th I did a post about a post card of the Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyoming . Today I feature what used to be across the street; a ...

This post is a companion piece to this week’s Sepia Saturday post at Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography. The following images are...

Do you ever click on the “Next Blog” label at the top of Blogger blogs? Google seems to think that by analyzing where you’ve come from they’...

Welcome to the Harvest House Cafeteria in Cerritos, California. Ummm...no wait. I mean Flint, Michigan ... Niles, Ohio ... Tol...

Go ahead, blow your own horn. Then keep it down. I've got a headache. Click on either image to see them larger. Another card illustrated...

By this time tomorrow... Click on either image to see them larger. A card similar to this is available on Card Cow .

A card created by Bernhardt Wall. I'll be featuring another of his cards this weekend. Click on either image to see them larger. Bernhar...

Like I said the other day, I had no idea I had so many Christmas themed cards by the Whitney company. If you need to see what the back of th...

Until I scanned some holiday post cards I hadn't even realized how many were by the same publisher. I give you the third in a row Whitne...

Does anyone remember yelling out "Get a horse!" to someone whose car had broken down? I can also remember kids yelling it out scho...

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They might be far away, but we should never forget them no matter if they're currently serving or served in the past. Click on either im...

This card, published by Wolf & Co ., mailed in 1919, doesn't look the least bit Christmassy to me. I'm guessing this was a gener...

I don't understand Vegas. I don't understand the lure of Vegas. I don't understand the marketing of Vegas. I never will. It seem...

This is an odd vintage post card. The copy on the back doesn't seem to make much sense or provide any guidance as to what this was about...

but I like it. I will leave you to figure out who these famous faces are from a 1973 post card.

What's truly stunning about this vintage post card is not the image on the front, nor the ornateness on the back, but the purple prose u...