Prospect Park South - 1905 Vintage Postcard

I found this postcard, sent from Brooklyn in 1905 to Passaic, NJ in Duluth, MN in 2007. Go figure! It took only one day to get to Passaic way back when (and arrived on my birthday of all days!). I was surprised to see it, you don't often find vintage postcards of residential areas. It is written in a language I cannot read (Swedish or something like it - if you can read it please translate it for me!). I want to go to this street and see how it's changed and take an after picture. I just might.

Busted! Bawdy Postcard...

Speaks for itself I suppose. I love how incredibly simple and cheap this card is in every respect.

Old Postcards - Arkansas - the Land of Beauty

Not sure if the irony was intentional or not. I found these last summer in a Missouri antique mall.

1946 Postcard - Oh! Boy! What a Night!

Got this postcard at a rummage sale on Duluth, MN's westside about 8 years ago. I seem to recall the owner had died and his daughters were selling his things. There were hundreds of postcards, I only bought a handful. Looking back, I should have bought more.

"Spose you're stooping rite now trying to pick up the pants I've shocked of you with my decision to write... " I have other postcards written to this woman and they often have fairly crude (for the time I imagine) images on the front.

Madison, Wisconsin Postcard Capitol Building - 1908

Found this at an antique store in Ohio in 2003 during a road trip. Love the newly planted small trees, which are now immense. The Capitol in this postcard was the 3rd capitol, which caught on fire in 1904 and was demolished. Guess they still had this postcard floating around in 1908.



Here is the back of the postcard. My favorite passage: "Did Rosa let you read my letter? If she did you know all about me then."