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I haven’t scanned anything in months cause this is the laziest and least planned postcard blog thing possible, but here’s some motels I never got around to posting before

#postcard #motel #colony #florence #south carolina #tourist court #de witt #iowa #cottages

I’ll admit that I can’t read the back of this one as well as I’d like, but I love that someone took a postcard from a random hotel then made sure to mention on the front that while it’s not their hotel, it is also fashionable, and that their room is somewhere off to the bottom right.

I’m pretty sure the bit in the left corner about “wood alcohol news” is referring to when the government started adding methanol to alcohol and immediately poisoned tons of people who drank it anyway. Because prohibition was such a well thought out idea.

#postcard #hotel #post card #1920 #st. paul #prohibition

Sorry, 127 years later and it’s still not cool yet. Come back in 2147.

#post card #postcard #1893 #fort myers #baking #oven #toque #too #hot #15 minutes #cool

I have no idea how, but while I was hanging around in an antique store for the first and probably only time this year, another Johnny card just happened to be at the bottom of a wrapped stack of old hotel postcards.

When I found the first one I pictured him as an extremely 1950′s teen on a road trip, but it turns out he was possibly a traveling salesperson for his parent’s cookie distributing company, being run out of their house. The story of Johnny gets a lot sadder from there, though.

Both his parents died a few years later, and eventually the house was taken from him by a predatory realty company for underpaying his taxes by $139.61, which is only around $399 today adjusted for inflation. He died in October 1994, the same year I was born.

#postcard #post card #omaha #nebraska #1958 #hotel #johnny #uehrke #blue island #illinois #cookies #realty #eviction #newspaper #article

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I love how extremely 1957 it is to sign a card “Johnny” and to call your parents folks.

This might have been free like the motel ones, but it’s more fun to think a highway rest stop was exciting enough at some point to get it’s own souvenir specifically made for bragging to someone else that you had been there.

Instead of just being the slightly weird smelling place you pee and get fast food on a long drive

#postcard #post card #ohio #turnpike #1967 #rest stop #service plaza #dexter press #highway #vacation

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I’m pretty sure this is the first anonymous thing I’ve gotten on this site since like.. 2012. But I am having one so far, thank you

I probably could have scanned something more interesting, but here’s the only card I’ve been able to find from where I grew up. And according to someone who was alive when the motel still existed, it might not have even been in Berkley at all. But at least it sounds like Frank had a nice trip.

Bonus fun fact: it’s also the birthplace of one half of the Insane Clown Posse and I think about that entirely unprompted at least once a week despite barely knowing anything about them.

#postcard #berkley #michigan #post card #motel #1955 #greenfield village #windsor tunnel #gran #ICP #woodward

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I randomly got three whole notes in one day, so to celebrate here’s some examples of a mildly interesting thing I’ve come across: postmarks that passive aggressively nag you for writing an address wrong.

You’d think by 2002 postcodes would have caught on, but a ton of other British cards I decided to leave out say otherwise

#postcard #post card #long beach #long island #tardebigge #worchester #birmingham #canal #postmark

Not a postcard, but I was pretty sure no one else wanted this so I bid and can now get two whole dollars off my stay if I ever magically teleport to 1960′s Oregon.

If they didn’t lean so heavily on the fishing theme this wouldn’t be the most appealing name for a motel though. Unless you were a drifter.

#motel #letter #mail #1963 #oregon #florence #drifter #drifters #promotional #spam #nixon #60s

I haven’t found any cards for the mall I worked at once, so here’s two views of the hotel next door. You can also see the giant K-Mart Castle while it was still their world headquarters and not just owned by the mall to use for black friday parking.

I know there’s at least one card in existence with the extremely 70′s original mall interior, but what I don’t know is why I have a burning desire to find it despite only having worked there less than five years ago. And not even enjoying it.

Collecting is weird.

#postcard #post card #hotel #troy #michigan #k-mart #kmart #16 mile #big beaver #somerset #inn #1970s #70s #aerial view #mall

This was probably the only Japanese restaurant in the world named Dutch’s, and today it’s a grass field directly in the flight path of a runway since Mitchell Field became an international airport.

I like their choice of floor patterns even though mambo and foxtrot records don’t quite fit with the rest of the theme

#postcard #post card #menu #cocktails #1961 #dutch's #sukiyaki #japanese #japanese food #restaurant #bar #milwaukee #wisconsin #interior #oriental #drinks #kitch #mitchell field #60s

This kind of feels like a 100 year old ancestor to those white block text memes, only instead of a stupid joke or a cheeseburger cat it’s just vaguely sexual.

#postcard #post card #1911 #naughty #duochrome #cheeseburger cat

I don’t think the style they decorated this room in falls under a single category other than “70′s”, but surprisingly the building still sells cheese as the Pinny Cheese House. That’s a bit of a downgrade from villa, though.