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Locomotion - Festival of Postcards PDF Print E-mail
Written by - Randy C
Tuesday, 20 July 2010 04:55

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                  This festival brings together all of our favorite past-times, we love to travel and our favorite mode is by train, we just love the old stations, and my wife loves postcards. She likes to jump off the train at stops and run into the station to mail postcards and snap a picture of the station while shes in there, yes, we have had some close calls. In Sacramento once, I had the conductor....Read more...

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:25 )
 
Postcard Scavenger Hunt #6 – Easily Amused PDF Print E-mail
Written by - Randy C
Sunday, 30 August 2009 15:14

The theme of Postcardy's August Scavenger Hunt is "My Funniest Postcards", this one was the funniest one I found in our collection, Postcardy's are much funnier.

Sweetie Postcard
(Tichnor linen)

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I guess to a youngun' like me, it seems "funny" that my elders could be risque.This postcard was written to my Great Aunt Iva Pringle Howell in 1950? (the postmark is hard to read)

Sweetie Postcard back

 

In 1950 she would have been 55 years old and had been married to her childhood "Sweetie Pie" for 32 years. I wonder who sent this, I think a girl friend.

 

Sweetie Postcard

 
 
This post was written for the 6th Edition of Postcard Scavenger Hunt- My Funniest Postcards
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 May 2010 17:13 )
 
Water? - Festival of Postcards PDF Print E-mail
Written by - Randy C
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:59

Me and my wife,Lei, both enjoy postcards, so when I saw a new blog carnival, Evelyn Theriault's A Festival of Postcards, I figured that would be an easy one to write a post for. It has been a little more difficult than that, when I saw this editions theme, "Water" and the rules: it’s time to get out those postcards depicting bodies of water, boats, bridges, fish – or anything that contains liquid! And please feel free to interpret the theme as liberally as you wish. I thought I had it - but when I found the postcard ....

Martha Pringle Postcard
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 23 August 2009 17:31 )
 


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