“I THINK TRAVEL REALLY BROADENS ONE’S KNOWLEDGE!”

Hello From JIGGS, NEVADA
Jiggs Bar — “Let The Good Times Roll”

The sender wrote the name “Jamie” with a line pointing to the large woman’s butt.

BEST FOOD BY A DAM SITE

BOB’S CHICKEN SHACK
Boulder City, Nevada
Best Food by a Dam Site

One of the most popular eating places in Nevada where you will always get the finest in Chicken, steaks and sea foods. The owners Bob and Esther Tuttle have been catering to the western tourists for years and they and their friends always return to the Chicken Shack when in the Hoover Dam area.

I’ll have the Dam Half-Chicken with Dam Mashed & Gravy. Dam coffee black.

WENDOVER WILL

Your left wrist looks a little too limp for my comfort, cowboy.

WENDOVER WILL
Wendover, Nevada

Standing in front of the new modern State Line Hotel in Wendover, Nevada is this Giant Cowboy—”Wendover Will”. This friendly cowhand stands sixty-four feet high and weighs approximately nine tons. A symbolic figure of the Big West. “Will” is the largest mechanical cowboy sign in the world. 

PERFORMING PACHYDERM

“Little Bertha,” the world’s most talented performing elephant has been trained from her infancy by Jenda Smaha, a member of the three generation circus family. The 16 year old indian pachyderm weighs 4,700 lbs. and is fed a daily diet of a bale of hay, rolled oats, carrots and 30 gallons of water. Jenda presents “Little Bertha” nightly in the Circus room Theater Restaurant.

John Ascuaga’s NUGGET
SPARKS (East Reno) Nevada 

BERTHA AND TINA…

…suggest that you recommend  BAD POSTCARDS for the HUMOR Directory to continue to be provided with uplifting, inspirational postcard experiences.

This act was featured at John Ascuaga’s NUGGET in Sparks (East Reno) Nevada.

Verso:
“Bertha and Tina, The Nugget’s own talented Pachyderms, presented by C. J. Madison and assisted by Diane Olson, appear on stage in the Circus Room Theater Restaurant. They have gained world attention from several appearances on the Hollywood Palace, Ed Sullivan and Steve Allen TV shows.”

There is still a J.A.’s Nugget but, alas, no Circus Room Theatre and no Elephant entertainment.

Thanks to Doug and Alyssa for their correct answers.

Alyssa is a comedian based in, of all places, Reno! Check her site.

Doug, there are no cash prizes at BAD POSTCARDS—only postcard prizes. I need my millions to buy my next condo here in NYC.

I know I didn’t offer a prize for the correct answer, but since it’s just the two of you, if you email me at bad.postcards@gmail.com with your mailing address, I will send you a genuine, vintage bad postcard from my archives. Thanks for playing!  

Care to guess where this was? (I’ll fill in the blanks later this evening.)

SILVER QUEEN
Virginia City, Nevada

Virginia City is billed as the most haunted city in Nevada. If I had this “painting” in my house, I would feel haunted. The woman’s left arm is twice as long as her right, and her lip job went terribly wrong.

She’s called the “Silver Queen” (like the name of the casino). The little shiny discs are silver dollars. (See description below.)

Here are two postcards from different years. One of the cards shows a middle-aged couple posing with the Queen, identified on the back as Lee and Ruby Carel, designers and owners of the establishment. The other card shows a younger couple identified as Carroll and Jerry Eaton and they are credited as designers and owners. No family relation indicated.

Description on the Lee and Ruby card: “Designed by owners Lee and Ruby Carel as a tribute to Virginia City’s once great Silver Mining industry—an industry whose production stabilized the Federal treasury during the Civil War and later altered the world’s monetary structure. The Silver Queen’s dress contains 3,261 Silver Dollars. The belt alone contains 28 Twenty Dollar gold pieces. The picture is fifteen feet high and eight feet wide. While only a few of the coins are of Nevada (Carson City) mintage, a large percentage of them undoubtedly contain silver that was first mined thousands of feet beneath this very building. One of Nevada’s most unusual Casino displays.”

PRIVATE ROMAN POOL SUITES

What city is this in?

At 4:00 PM EDT I will add the description from the back of the card.

“PRIVATE ROMAN POOL SUITES in Las Vegas’ Newest Hotel, the beautiful 3 million dollar Golf and Country Club Motor Hotel, on the Tropicana’s championship Golf Course, adjoining world famous Hotel Tropicana, home of the Follies Bergere. Show reservations, baby sitting, beautiful pool overlooking Golf Course, Dining and Cocktails in country club lounge. Gaming at adjoining Hotel Tropicana, 10 Tropicana Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada.”