“One of the wonders of Bklyn.”
New East River Bridge, New York 

GREETINGS FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Exhibit at The City Reliquary
February 15 through April 28, 2013

Opening night reception with slide show.

Curated by your BAD POSTCARDS blogger who also collects New York City postcards.

____________

Before March 1907, any handwritten messages on a postcard were restricted to the image side. By law, the back of the card was reserved for the recipient’s name and address only.

The postcards selected for this exhibit were postally used and bear messages that refer to the image or express a sentiment about New York City—sometimes humorous, sometimes evocative.

At one glance you see image with message. You see New York City and its wondrous new marvels (skyscrapers, bridges, subways) through the eyes of its residents and visitors over 100 years ago.

“Here I am - looking up”
The Flatiron by Night, New York

GREETINGS FROM THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Exhibit at The City Reliquary
February 15 through April 28, 2013

Opening night reception with slide show.

Curated by your BAD POSTCARDS blogger who also collects New York City postcards.

____________

Before March 1907, any handwritten messages on a postcard were restricted to the image side. By law, the back of the card was reserved for the recipient’s name and address only.

The postcards selected for this exhibit were postally used and bear messages that refer to the image or express a sentiment about New York City—sometimes humorous, sometimes evocative.

At one glance you see image with message. You see New York City and its wondrous new marvels (skyscrapers, bridges, subways) through the eyes of its residents and visitors over 100 years ago.

BROOK TROUT: STATE FISH

WILLIAM PENN MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Hall of Natural Science and Ecology: Brook Trout. The Brook Trout is native to Pennsylvania and has been selected as its state fish. Fishing for the Brook Trout is enjoyed by many anglers who regard it as one of the finest game fish.

NICE KRONOSAURUS!

KRONOSAURUS or “SEA SERPENT”

Hall of Fossil Reptiles
“Agassiz Museum”
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

This giant fossil and its relatives were fish-eating reptiles which swam the seas in the days of the dinosaurs. This specimen from Australia, 42 feet long, was the giant of the tribe.

ENTER UNDER THE COWBOY’S CROTCH

COWBOY CAFE

A big Texas welcome awaits you at the Cowboy Cafe. Located on U.S. highways 54-87 and 385 in Dalhart, Texas. Laurence Melton, owner, invites you to see his relics of the Old West in his free museum. Cowboy Cafe is widely known for its fine food and western atmosphere.

HAPPY MUSEUM DAY

ROY ROGER’S [sic] MUSEUM

Apple Valley, California

Roy Roger’s Museum is located near the Roy Roger’s Apple Valley Inn. The Inn is the center of activity for the valley. The museum is the art center of the valley with paintings by great western artists. One of the greatest is Bill Bender who not only can paint but a fellow who grew up in the saddle.

Here one may see mementos that Roy has collected on his hunting trips and from years in motion pictures. The old fort-like building is topped with a large replica of Trigger that stands guard above the entrance.

I love errors and awkward writing on these postcards. Here, they misplaced the apostrophe in Roy’s name (Roger’s vs. Rogers’). They tripled down on the error so at least they were consistent. Fortunately, it is correct on the museum’s sign.

It must be really uncomfortable growing up in a saddle.

I once had a pony named Trigger.

That is all.

BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS

BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS, native Texan, has been named the world’s greatest athlete. The winner of top golf honors, Olympic track star, and All American Basketball player’s life-size wax figure may be seen at the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum at State Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.

This makes her look like Bob Hope.

FRONTIER TYPE JUSTICE

Wish You Were Here!

The CHAMBER OF HORRORS at the Southwestern Historical Wax Museum in State Fair Park of Dallas, Texas, recreates an event that took place in Ada, Oklahoma, April 19, 1909, when a lynch mob took four suspected murderers from jail to a barn where they administered frontier type justice.

How many parents told their kids, “If you don’t behave, this is where you’ll end up.”

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.