The Blacksmith Shop Postcard

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When I was a kid growing up in Texas, I use to walk two blocks to the local blacksmith shop and marvel at the their mastery of metal. Unfortunately, the shop is long gone now but it did last at least into the 1960s. The postcard for today is a blacksmith shop but this one is really special. Post cards of a stand alone blacksmith shop are rare but you can sometimes find their shops in early street scenes if you really look for them. This one looks like a nice new one with living quarters above it and a unique front door and windows that are shaped like horseshoes. The one I remember from Texas was an old wooden building, dark and dirty. The one shown here was in Rogers City Michigan, which had a population of 705 in the 1910 census, and shows the blacksmith, R. J. Bruder standing in the doorway with two policemen with a bicycle which probably came in for repair. This is a circa 1907 Albertype postcard and can be found in my Michigan listings along with more than 10,000 additional postcards available on my website at Moody's Postcards.

Stone Buidings on Vintage Postcards

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I have always liked the beautiful stonework often used in early 1900s buildings and homes. The first post card is the First M. E. Church in Parkersburg West Virginia on a 1911 postcard published by I. Robbins & Son and printed by Curteich. The grey stonework really makes the stain glass windows stand out and the turrets and fancy entrance ways provide an impressive site.

The second stone building is the Millicent Rogers Library in Fairhaven Massachusetts and is a 1920s postcard published and printed by the New Bedford News Company in New Bedford Massachusetts. The grey stone and the contrasting red roof along with the many different shapes of the building make this an exciting visual experience. This vintage postcard is available in my Massachusetts listings on my website at Moody's Postcards.

Vintage New Orleans Country Club Postcards

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I ran across these two old postcards which show the front and back view of the New Orleans Golf Country Club. The first postcard below is the front view with a drive up entrance and tennis courts in the foreground. This is a 1930s E. C. Kropp postcard and on the back it proclaims "The New Orleans Country Club is the sporting place of the society folk of New Orleans. On the left is an immense swimming pool, and in the rear is New Orleans' finest golf course, where professionals from all over the nation meet in winter and early spring, giving New Orleans the title, 'Winter Golf Capital of America'".

The second view is the rear view including the eighteenth hole and is a 1916 Curteich postcard. Both of these vintage postcards are available in my Louisiana listings on my website at Moody's Postcards.

Vintage Savannah Postcards Part 5

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Now that St. Patrick's Day and Easter have come and gone we can get back to the last Savannah postcard article for now. The first image is a bird's eye view of the Oglethorpe Swimming Pool on Wilmington Island which is a 1930s view published by Lamas Brothers News Company of Savannah and printed by E. C. Kropp Company.

The second postcard is a 1917 bird's eye view of the Ocean Steamship Company's new Savannah terminal. On the far right you can see the railroad tracks, trucks backed up to the loading docks and five railroad tracks with trains going into the right wing of the terminal which is labeled "South Bound". In the center is the passenger terminal and offices with truck docks on each side. On the far left is another railroad terminal similar to the one on the far right with trains. This postcard was published in 1917 by the Southern Postcard Company of Asheville North Carolina and printed by C. T. American Art, Curteich. Both of the vintage postcards are available in the Georgia Listings on my website at Moody's Postcards.

Vintage Easter Postcards Part 3

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Happy Easter to all and I will end this series on antique Easter postcards with two more fantasy Easter postcards. The first one is a circa 1908 International Art Publishing Company Series #2018 postcard printed in Germany showing a circus scene with little chicks running the show with a dressed baby chicken performing on the back of a rabbit running the ring with an audience of baby chicks faintly visible in the background.

The second fantasy Easter postcard is postmarked 1914 without a publisher's name but it was also printed in Germany. This features dressed rabbits dancing with dressed baby chickens to the music of an all chicken band. Both of these can be found in my Easter postcard category on my website at Moody's Postcards.

Vintage Easter Postcards Part 2

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The second installment of vintage Easter postcards brings some high society chickens. Fantasy postcards, such as these two examples, show animals dressed up in clothes and/or doing unnatural things such as smoking a pipe. Both, however, are beautiful examples of the artists imagination in the creation of these Easter postcards. Both of these can be found in my Easter postcard category on my website at Moody's Postcards.

Vintage Easter Postcards

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Easter is a special holiday and there were loads of Easter postcards produced in the early 1900s. The three I want to share with you today are from an artist signed set published by B. K. W. I. of which I only have three so I am not sure how many there were. I suspect it was a set of six since the series is #4620 and I have number 2, 3, and 4. All show a large mama rabbit and one of her bunnies doing all the Easter things we still do today. I hope you enjoy these fantasy postcards as much as I do. All of these can be found in my Easter postcard category on my website at Moody's Postcards.