Look how pretty and clean the letter looked (above) when I first sent it to Melina! And this is what it looked like when I popped it back into the mail last week. Because this was the only local letter, I also accidentally put an Airmail sticker on it too, so I guess that could have caused some confusion. But then to be fair, I had run out of Airmail stickers when I photographed these, and later put all the stickers on at the post office. WHAT COUNTRY?" This made me groan slightly, since, if you live in Australia, an address in North Gosford, NSW, is quite evidently also in Australia. The castle above came back, with notes from the postie written on the left to the tune of "ADDRESS UNCLEAR. Tagged: letterbox, postcards, snail mail, Thousand postcard projectįor only the second time ever, I had a couple of the parcels in this set returned. There's a form on this page for you to give me your mailing address (I'll never share it). Would you like to receive one of these postcards in the mail? I'd love to send you one. On the back, it boasts all the latest amenities. The good people of the Travel Lodge, Mt Vernon, Illinois, chose this photograph as the best way to advertise their hotel. ΔΔ I love this because it is so fabulously dull. Holding this postcard is ALSO like walking into the past. "Entering this store is like walking into the past," it says. ΔΔ The back of this postcard tells us that this is the general store at the Deserted Village of Allaire in New Jersey. But look at that car! It dates the card so perfectly. ΔΔ Hand-drawn postcards are always sweet. The caption on the back of the postcard is deliciously kitsch: " The Old Prospector // Accompanied by his faithful burros, the grizzled Old Prospector stands in front of the entrance to the Gold Mine tunnel." I've visited one like this, and it was fascinating! I call this guy "dude with donkey" and he makes me smile. Did you happen to be there at some point in the 1960s or 70s? Is that YOU I see?) (It's Camp Kanesatake at Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania. I wonder what they remember about that day in the sun. I like to imagine what all these people at the swimming pool are doing now, if they are still alive. ΔΔ A good 50 or so years have passed since this photograph was taken. Here are some of my favourites from that first batch: I'm numbering each of them, so that I can keep track of where I'm up to in this project. I've just popped the first 25 postcards into the post, to finally make their way out into the world. I decided they'd spent enough time tucked away gathering dust in boxes and drawers, and that it was time to give them life at last, so I launched the Thousand Postcard Project, with the goal of posting each and every one of them before the year is out. They are all between 40 and 110 years old, and most of them Americana - old postcards advertising hotels and stores, landmarks and movies. Last week a box of a thousand vintage postcards arrived for me in the mail.
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