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SHELL SHACKED POP & HELEN DeVITO’S SHELL SHACK Gifts from the Seven SeasArt Gallery — Nautical MuseumYork Beach, Maine New England’s Largest Dealer in Shells — Shell Novelties and Shell Jewelry. Wholesale — Retail Unique shells from all over the world are made into novelties and jewelry by Pop and Helen. Shell collectors find this a Browser’s Paradise. Adorable. Right?

SHELL SHACKED

POP & HELEN DeVITO’S SHELL SHACK

Gifts from the Seven Seas
Art Gallery — Nautical Museum
York Beach, Maine

New England’s Largest Dealer in Shells — Shell Novelties and Shell Jewelry.

Wholesale — Retail

Unique shells from all over the world are made into novelties and jewelry by Pop and Helen. Shell collectors find this a Browser’s Paradise.

Adorable. Right?

COMPLYING WITH THE NEED FOR GREATER TRANSPARENCY TRANSPARENT WOMAN A Talking Transparent Woman is demonstrated daily at the Museum of Science, Boston. Presented by the Mass. Heart Association, it gives a dramatic lesson in body structure and function, showing circulatory and nervous systems and internal organs. The life-size figure was fabricated at the Deutches Gesundheits Museum, Cologne, Germany.

COMPLYING WITH THE NEED FOR GREATER TRANSPARENCY

TRANSPARENT WOMAN

A Talking Transparent Woman is demonstrated daily at the Museum of Science, Boston. Presented by the Mass. Heart Association, it gives a dramatic lesson in body structure and function, showing circulatory and nervous systems and internal organs. The life-size figure was fabricated at the Deutches Gesundheits Museum, Cologne, Germany.

CAPTION CONTEST—I Am Bear 5/1/12  8:50 PM: Thank you for your captions! First, here’s the description on the verso: ALASKAN BROWN BEAR NATURAL HISTORY HABITAT GROUP—Kansas City Museum’s first large animal group. The giant male stands over 8-1/2’ tall and weighed approximately 1500 lbs. Specimens of world’s largest living carnivorous mammal. Includes gulls, weasel, and magpie in authentic foreground. Outstandingly beautiful background. Bears collected by Arthur C. Popham, Jr. Kansas City Museum3218 Gladstone Blvd.Kansas City, Mo.  The winner is xzargo for the caption: “Hey….I can see Russia from here!” Congratulations, xzargo! To claim your postcard prize, email me at bad.postcards@gmail.com with your choice of postcard from the list below and your mailing address. The RULES1) MAXIMUM of TWENTY (20) WORDS2) One entry per person3) Please enter your caption in the comments of this post4) Submissions will be accepted until Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 8:00 PM EDT The author of my favorite caption will have their choice of one of these original vintage postcards (all previously published on BAD POSTCARDS): 1) I’M ALL DRESSED UP AND READY TO GO!2) WE CATCH ‘EM BIG ON LONG ISLAND!3) UNDERWATER JESUS4) Excuse me sir. Can you give me directions to the BAMBI MOTEL?5) MISS SUGARDALE—1958 HAVE FUN and GOOD LUCK!

CAPTION CONTEST—I Am Bear

5/1/12  8:50 PM:

Thank you for your captions! First, here’s the description on the verso:

ALASKAN BROWN BEAR NATURAL HISTORY HABITAT GROUP—Kansas City Museum’s first large animal group. The giant male stands over 8-1/2’ tall and weighed approximately 1500 lbs. Specimens of world’s largest living carnivorous mammal. Includes gulls, weasel, and magpie in authentic foreground. Outstandingly beautiful background.

Bears collected by Arthur C. Popham, Jr.

Kansas City Museum
3218 Gladstone Blvd.
Kansas City, Mo. 

The winner is xzargo for the caption:

“Hey….I can see Russia from here!”

Congratulations, xzargo! To claim your postcard prize, email me at bad.postcards@gmail.com with your choice of postcard from the list below and your mailing address.

The RULES
1) MAXIMUM of TWENTY (20) WORDS
2) One entry per person
3) Please enter your caption in the comments of this post
4) Submissions will be accepted until Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 8:00 PM EDT

The author of my favorite caption will have their choice of one of these original vintage postcards (all previously published on BAD POSTCARDS):

JESUS HAVING A SCENE Why do most wax museum representations of Jesus make him look like he’s drunk or stoned? Jesus in a scene at the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum, Cave City, Kentucky.

JESUS HAVING A SCENE

Why do most wax museum representations of Jesus make him look like he’s drunk or stoned?

Jesus in a scene at the Mammoth Cave Wax Museum, Cave City, Kentucky.

SPACED OUT ALABAMA SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER Huntsville, Alabama This moon rock sample is displayed at Earth’s largest space exhibit. It was collected on the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts. It is believed to be over 3 billion years old, and weight 4.9 ounces.

SPACED OUT

ALABAMA SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER

Huntsville, Alabama

This moon rock sample is displayed at Earth’s largest space exhibit. It was collected on the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts. It is believed to be over 3 billion years old, and weight 4.9 ounces.

WAX JOHN GLENN MIAMI WAX MUSEUM139th Street and U.S. 1, Miami, Florida Life size wax figure of Astronaut John Glenn, in NASA approved space suit. 

WAX JOHN GLENN

MIAMI WAX MUSEUM
139th Street and U.S. 1, Miami, Florida

Life size wax figure of Astronaut John Glenn, in NASA approved space suit. 

HAPPY OBSERVED BIRTHDAY, GEORGE Tell me that Martha doesn’t look like a guy in drag. GEORGE and MARTHA WASHINGTON, are among the fifty life size wax figures in the Hall of Famous Americans in Santa Claus Land, Indiana. Lewis Sorensen who created these likenesses is the foremost wax artist in the country. You wouldn’t know that from this postcard. 

HAPPY OBSERVED BIRTHDAY, GEORGE

Tell me that Martha doesn’t look like a guy in drag.

GEORGE and MARTHA WASHINGTON, are among the fifty life size wax figures in the Hall of Famous Americans in Santa Claus Land, Indiana. Lewis Sorensen who created these likenesses is the foremost wax artist in the country.

You wouldn’t know that from this postcard. 

A VALENTINE HEART — VEINS AND ARTERIES INCLUDED THE HUMAN HEART When you walk through this giant replica of the human heart you can watch its principal parts work as they do in your own body and actually hear it throb. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRYCHICAGO 

A VALENTINE HEART — VEINS AND ARTERIES INCLUDED

THE HUMAN HEART

When you walk through this giant replica of the human heart you can watch its principal parts work as they do in your own body and actually hear it throb.

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY
CHICAGO 

HAPPY LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY (observed-NY) NATIONAL WAX MUSEUMof LANCASTER COUNTY HERITAGELancaster, Pennsylvania, Rt. 30 East Abraham Lincoln - 1861On February 22, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln passed through Lancaster on his journey from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration, and delivered a speech form a balcony of the Caldwell House, later known as the Brunswick Hotel. He passed through Lancaster a second time…on April 21, 1865…This time the martyred President’s body lay in a black-draped funeral train as it slowly returned him to his beloved Illinois. Guess that’s Mary Todd next to him? Looks like his mum. Poor gal isn’t even identified on the postcard.

HAPPY LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY (observed-NY)

NATIONAL WAX MUSEUM
of LANCASTER COUNTY HERITAGE
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Rt. 30 East

Abraham Lincoln - 1861
On February 22, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln passed through Lancaster on his journey from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration, and delivered a speech form a balcony of the Caldwell House, later known as the Brunswick Hotel. He passed through Lancaster a second time…on April 21, 1865…This time the martyred President’s body lay in a black-draped funeral train as it slowly returned him to his beloved Illinois.

Guess that’s Mary Todd next to him? Looks like his mum. Poor gal isn’t even identified on the postcard.

MAN OF CHAINS AT RIPLEY’S “BELIEVE IT OR NOT” MUSEUM, FISHERMAN’S WHARF MAN OF CHAINS The intriguing MAN OF CHAINS was also known as the “Jingling Fakir.” Here he is reproduced from Ripley’s World Famous Pocket Books, complete with his groaning load of 670 pounds as he slowly crawled through the streets of Lahore in India with his self-imposed burden. ONLY ONE OF MORE THAN 500 EXHIBITS

MAN OF CHAINS

AT RIPLEY’S “BELIEVE IT OR NOT” MUSEUM, FISHERMAN’S WHARF

MAN OF CHAINS

The intriguing MAN OF CHAINS was also known as the “Jingling Fakir.” Here he is reproduced from Ripley’s World Famous Pocket Books, complete with his groaning load of 670 pounds as he slowly crawled through the streets of Lahore in India with his self-imposed burden.

ONLY ONE OF MORE THAN 500 EXHIBITS

TEN BADDEST BAD POSTCARDS OF 2011 — #5Your BAD POSTCARDS Blogger Reblogs Ten of his Favorite Postcards of the Year LOUIS PASTEURPotters Wax MuseumSt. Augustine, Florida This is one of my favorite wax museum postcards. I love the arthritic hands. The poor guy can’t bend his fingers enough to get a good grip on the syringe. The taxidermied chinchilla is a nice touch. But Louis isn’t paying attention to what he’s doing. The chilla is getting spiked while Louis is gazing off into space. Not professional. The artist’s laboratory backdrop is kinda cool. Click  HERE to view the original post.

TEN BADDEST BAD POSTCARDS OF 2011 — #5
Your BAD POSTCARDS Blogger Reblogs Ten of his Favorite Postcards of the Year

LOUIS PASTEUR
Potters Wax Museum
St. Augustine, Florida

This is one of my favorite wax museum postcards. I love the arthritic hands. The poor guy can’t bend his fingers enough to get a good grip on the syringe. The taxidermied chinchilla is a nice touch. But Louis isn’t paying attention to what he’s doing. The chilla is getting spiked while Louis is gazing off into space. Not professional. The artist’s laboratory backdrop is kinda cool.

Click  HERE to view the original post.

MAN ON THE MOON NEIL ARMSTRONG, FIRST MAN ON THE MOON “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” American Historical Wax Museum, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Here you meet face to face the famous of America’s past and present, life-size, life-like, richly costumed, and magnificently displayed. History walks with you through these aisles of time - the past breaks through at every turn. Each scene is a vivid chapter in American History.

MAN ON THE MOON

NEIL ARMSTRONG, FIRST MAN ON THE MOON

“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” American Historical Wax Museum, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Here you meet face to face the famous of America’s past and present, life-size, life-like, richly costumed, and magnificently displayed. History walks with you through these aisles of time - the past breaks through at every turn. Each scene is a vivid chapter in American History.

TAXIDERMY MOOSE UNDER ATTACK! HERE’S THE WOMAN who originally killed the Moose. Alaskan Timber Wolves, attacking Moose at salt lick, bagged in British Columbia. CRAWFORD MUSEUM at interchange off Pa. Turnpike, Breezewood, Pa. Without the description, how would you know what was going on here?

TAXIDERMY MOOSE UNDER ATTACK!

HERE’S THE WOMAN who originally killed the Moose.

Alaskan Timber Wolves, attacking Moose at salt lick, bagged in British Columbia.

CRAWFORD MUSEUM at interchange off Pa. Turnpike, Breezewood, Pa.

Without the description, how would you know what was going on here?

OUR FIRST 7 PRESIDENTS REACT to the REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE in IOWA LAST NIGHT HOUSE OF PRESIDENTSClermont, Florida Left to Right (1) Washington (2) Adams (3) Jefferson (4) Madison, Back Row (5) J. Q. Adams (6) Jackson (7) Monroe.

OUR FIRST 7 PRESIDENTS REACT to the REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE in IOWA LAST NIGHT

HOUSE OF PRESIDENTS
Clermont, Florida

Left to Right (1) Washington (2) Adams (3) Jefferson (4) Madison, Back Row (5) J. Q. Adams (6) Jackson (7) Monroe.

GOLDWATER ACCEPTS 47 years ago today, Barry Goldwater accepted the Republican presidential nomination. In his acceptance speech he said, ”I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Goldwater won 6 states—Arizona (his home state), Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina—for a total of 52 electoral votes. AMERICAN HERITAGE WAX MUSEUMScottsdale, Arizona Detailed close-up of the Josephine Tussaud wax figure of Barry M. Goldwater, 1964 Republican presidential candidate.

GOLDWATER ACCEPTS

47 years ago today, Barry Goldwater accepted the Republican presidential nomination. In his acceptance speech he said, ”I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

Goldwater won 6 states—Arizona (his home state), Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina—for a total of 52 electoral votes.

AMERICAN HERITAGE WAX MUSEUM
Scottsdale, Arizona

Detailed close-up of the Josephine Tussaud wax figure of Barry M. Goldwater, 1964 Republican presidential candidate.