Just received a copy of this book. If you're a collector of California postcards, or you've looked through southern California cards at a show you've most likely seen some of these ...
https://blog.cardcow.com/2023/12/along-malibu-color-serigraphs-and-art.html
It's a lot of fun to see what the places on old postcards look like now. We added gallery page of old & new views to highlight these views via Google Street View. Have a current street view ...
https://blog.cardcow.com/2023/05/then-and-now-postcard-views-via-google.html
We just published this tool for doing partial match searches for US City & State Names: https://www.cardcow.com/city-lookup/ This is especially useful for postcard collectors and postal hist...
Interesting little documentary on "Same Sky" chrome postcards from Dexter Press. We probably have a ton of these in here somewhere. You can see some earlier "photoshop" type manipulation ...
Ebay made some major changes to the Postcards category this month. Here I show some of the changes and how to update your saved searches to filter the correct state, country or category.
https://blog.cardcow.com/2021/10/how-to-fix-your-ebay-saved-searches-for.html
Nice display at the Los Altos History Museum featuring fruit crate labels, vintage photos and a Linen-era postcard of the orchards in Santa Clara county.
https://blog.cardcow.com/2021/06/j-gilbert-smith-orchard-los-altos-ca.html
We get a lot of folks that tell us they have a collection of postcards with "Rare Stamps". Usually they're referring to stamps like these: These are usually common Washington�...
https://blog.cardcow.com/2021/04/rare-1c-george-washington-benjamin.html
If you rely on US Postal Service to receive or send mail or packages I urge you to write to your congressmen and the postmaster general to support USPS: Sign and share the Save the USPS Petit...
Join us this weekend at Golden Gate Park for the SF Paper Fair!
https://blog.cardcow.com/2018/04/san-francisco-vintage-paper-fair-this.html
Nice write-up about this past weekend's show in the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Postcards-from-the-past-at-Vintage-Paper-Fair-12480225.php
https://blog.cardcow.com/2018/01/sf-vintage-paper-fair-in-news.html
This is probably what Trump meant about being able to file your taxes on a postcard :
https://blog.cardcow.com/2017/12/file-your-taxes-on-postcard.html
There was Sears "Instant Shopping":
https://blog.cardcow.com/2017/12/before-there-was-amazon-or-google.html
Found a few more vintage postcards around Disney World: First, Postcards From Space (Mission Mars): Then we have some Los Angeles/Hollywood-themed cards in the cafe in Disney Studios: ...
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/03/postcards-from-around-disney-world.html
Finally got around to seeing Lincoln at the Strand Theatre . Not as nice as the Stanford Theatre , mainly because they mostly show new releases, and Stanford shows mostly Golden Age films. But ...
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/02/the-strand-theatre-clinton-ma.html
Cape Cod Magazine used one of my cards in this month's issue in a short article about Bishop & Clerks lighthouse off the Yarmouth coast:
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/02/bishop-clerk-lighthouse-in-cape-cod.html
This month Log Home Living Magazine featured one of my cards of the Log Cabin in Palmer Park Detroit for their "Urban Cabin " article:
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/02/log-cabin-at-palmer-park.html
Some nice framed ephemera and vintage postcards in the downstairs lobby of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco (next to the Tonga Room ).
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/02/fairmont-hotel-san-francisco-vintage.html
Google does things at scale. The display of vintage New York postcards in the NYC lobby is no exception:
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/02/best-postcard-display-ever-google-nyc.html
Our vintage postcard from Quapaw Bath House , Hot Springs National Park featured in Standard Magazine last week:
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/01/hot-springs-bath-house.html
Nice example of using postcards as wall art: This one features postcards from Lowell Massachusetts
https://blog.cardcow.com/2013/01/multi-frame-3d-postcard-display.html
New splash on the home page for this month featuring national parks: And for more recent views, check out Google Street View, National Parks Edition
https://blog.cardcow.com/2012/08/national-parks-vintage-postcards.html
The Harvard Press has a nice article about a local resident's collection. Thanks for the plug! Wish I had more Harvard cards, but being on the west coast for a while I didn't find as many goo...
https://blog.cardcow.com/2012/05/greetings-from-harvard.html
In Miami last week - grabbed breakfast at Denny's in Coral Gables and noticed they had quite a few prints from vintage postcards hanging up, most of which I have originals of: Coral Gables Postc...
https://blog.cardcow.com/2012/03/greetings-from-coral-gables.html
I usually don't pay too much attention to the messages on the backs of postcards - but every once in a while one jumps out. This fun card from 1967 mentions the debut of The Beatles' "Hello...