Comments on: Vintage postcards

Vintage postcards

cmonkey — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:49:34 -0800

Vintage postcards are pretty neat. They show us the history of local areas, the growth of nations and they provide the briefest of glimpses into the lives of the past. Oh, they even brought porn to the masses.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:13:54 -0800

FYI, the link cmonkey included under "they provide" is the project of MeFite, mattr. Bravo, mattr. Thanks cmonkey.

By: mosk

mosk — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:20:03 -0800

Sorry, a nine page thesis on vintage postcard porn (including three pages of end notes!) and not a single illustration?!? Where's the fun in that?

Reminds me of a story one of my lit professors used to tell, of growing up in the old Nevada mining town of Tonapah, and one day while exploring an old mine finding a tattered of "Ullyses". As an adult looking back on it, he was endlessly amused at the thought of some hard-up miner pawing through Joyce's stream-of-consciousness prose "looking for the dirty bits."

Liked the other links, though; nice post.

By: DeepFriedTwinkies

DeepFriedTwinkies — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:23:49 -0800

Post cards are still a wonderful way to say hello to friends and family-more personal than email and the limitations of writing space excuse one from being too pithy. Nice post, cmonkey.

By: mattr

mattr — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:32:45 -0800

*blush*

By: mattr

mattr — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:33:17 -0800

oh - and by the way, I have about 400 more to scan and put online...keep watching postcard fans!

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:17:52 -0800

oh - and by the way, I have about 400 more to scan and put online...keep watching postcard fans! Awesome, I can't wait to see them!

By: dd42

dd42 — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:18:15 -0800

Mosk, The original journal article had some... accompanying images. Project MUSE has them, although you need a good university library's access to see them.

By: greycap

greycap — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 02:58:41 -0800

This kind of post is why I joined Metafilter - I have been browsing through these for about half an hour now and am still going strong. There is some fascinating stuff here. I particularly like some of the one-liners, which I can imagine often sum up the personality of the writer: I am in the city but cant say I like it so very much (about Washington DC) MattR's "please will you send me some envelopes" card also made me smile. Thanks to you and cmonkey.

By: dilettante

dilettante — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:07:23 -0800

A site with postcards of Louisville. It's kind of disappointing - you wonder if you're missing out by not usually getting the messages, and the selection is probably made with an eye to the impression of the neighborhood.