Ah yes: it’s that time of year again. I say that, but I don’t believe it. For some of us, it has been that time of year since about the middle of October. This period of time, which we can call by the nebulous term “holiday season” has delighted me since I was oldContinue reading “Daze of Festival”
Tag Archives: Postcards
Airy Problems
I know it’s not February, but you can always file this column and not read it until February (if then.) Besides, I’m offering you a break from all those November articles which tell you that Benjamin Franklin suggested the turkey be made our national bird instead of the bald eagle. This always hasContinue reading “Airy Problems”
Up In the Air So Blue
Those who have been checking this space for a while will recall our study of the men on postcards who keep on rowing even when their partner makes it difficult. Looking over the postcard world recently, I realized that we had left out another role for the hardworking, helpful male. These are theContinue reading “Up In the Air So Blue”
Ladies of the Court
I know you were yearning to see the next installment of my list of presidential conspiracies, but I didn’t plan to fill this space with that until we got through thirty or forty presidents. Anyhow, I can’t quite get my head around the James Madison theory yet. We’ll come back to the list nextContinue reading “Ladies of the Court”
Halloween-Adjacent?
It is time for my annual column where I go through my inventory and discover I have no Halloween postcards for sale. There ARE Halloween postcards, and postcard mongers who can offer you a fine array, but these folks exist at a higher financial level than I can compete with, and therefore I haveContinue reading “Halloween-Adjacent?”
Seaside Humor II
As you will recall from our last thrilling episode, we were looking through a portfolio of beach postcards produced in 1948 by Curteich. These accordion-pleated collections were essentially cartoon collections, the postcards printed on both sides of the page (as opposed to other similar portfolios where you could tear out and mail individual cards.) Continue reading “Seaside Humor II”
Seaside Humor
A perennial difficulty with postcards, from the day these started including pictures until today, is that finding a card which would be perfect for Cousin Tabitha is never enough. If the card is really perfect to send Tabitha from your vacation spot it’s good enough to keep, too. One answer to this is toContinue reading “Seaside Humor”
Looking for Clues
There is never the usual outpouring of response when my column deals with bygone jokes I just can’t figure out. But I have to produce these now and again. A blogger always runs the risk of being considered omniscient and infallible, and I MUST do my best to correct this notion before someone demandsContinue reading “Looking for Clues”
Next Season’s Greetings
Look, nobody said you have to start singing “Little Drummer Boy”. I understand, okay? A lot of you have jokes about “pumpkin spice already?” you’re planning to toss at people. Been there. Do it myself. But this is not part of the popular hatred for impending holidays (and/or winter) but an expression ofContinue reading “Next Season’s Greetings”
More Bygones
I was told over and over as a child—it was one of those things teachers felt we should know—that jack o’lanterns were originally made of turnips, not pumpkins. We all wanted to know whether they had birthday cake candles in those days, but that was all we ever got: in the olden days, peopleContinue reading “More Bygones”
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