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Coming Up in 1949

I was researching a few side issues on the cow shown here, and came up rather disappointed. No, I was not really expecting to find multi-flavored cows. But I was expecting to find out a little more about the Postwar World, once one of the great mass visions. What turned up on theContinue reading “Coming Up in 1949”

Back to the Cornfield

Ah, here comes Monday once again, the day when people wake with foreboding to face the daily commute on a crowded thoroughfare or smelly train to get to the office. Don’t you wish you could drop it all and set up shop in rural America, where a person can WALK to the office (throughContinue reading “Back to the Cornfield”

My Room Marked With Y

Not long ago, I mentioned in this space the way some people will go on vacation and, far from being grateful, spend the whole time complaining. I will excuse the numerous postcards which complain either a) that the vacation never seems long enough or b) that you need another vacation to recover from theContinue reading “My Room Marked With Y”

Pick of the Litter

I suppose someone out there in the world of postcards knows a whole lot more than I was able to learn about Vincent V. Colby, an artist responsible for a LOT of postcards in the 1910s or thereabouts. Anybody with this body of distinctive work must have had a fan who dug out informationContinue reading “Pick of the Litter”

Doctor, Doctor

Today, we find ourselves in the doctor’s waiting room, waiting for a laugh. Ah, for the pre-pandemic days, when the waiting room might be filled with Reader’s Digest, Highlights for Children, and Boys’ Life, all magazines which included joke columns, helping to preserve the traditional gags of our nation! Now we must rely onContinue reading “Doctor, Doctor”

Number One Column

There has been absolutely no call for equal time, but we did commit a modest oversight a few months back with a series of columns on what dogs do, and what babies do. Although there was a brief examination of the possibility that cats also did such things, we may have given you theContinue reading “Number One Column”

Drawers’ Choice

Once upon a time, mackerel jellybeans, one had to be so careful what one said. Every word had to be measured before uttered, lest it cause offense. And there were people on the alert for these offenses, so they could point them out to you and cry out to the world that you wereContinue reading “Drawers’ Choice”

Show Me the Funny

And here we are on President’s Day, a holiday observed primarily by government employees and mattress sales. There are, of course, a number of holidays waiting for us: St. Patrick’s Day, Easter (cue the Cadbury Bunny commercial), the Vernal Equinox, but the most advertised holiday of all is coming in the middle of April.Continue reading “Show Me the Funny”

Vintage Whine

I have called sending postcards the equivalent of texting or tweeting a century past. (The very mention of texting and tweeting makes me seem a century old to numerous people who moved past those things ten years ago, but I can’t see a lot of them reading my blog.) You could use a postcardContinue reading “Vintage Whine”

Hearts On the Plains

The romance of the Old West was established well before the West had gotten that old. Bill Nye, writing for the Boomerang in Cheyenne in the 1880s, liked to point out the difference between the West as it was lived and the West as people in the East liked to think of it. TheContinue reading “Hearts On the Plains”