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Texarkana

April 8, 2010
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The appropriately named city of Texarkana is bisected by the Texas/Arkansas state line, but it’s said that the name is actually derived from Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as surveyors originally believed that the city would also be partly within Louisiana as well.

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Creepy Postcard of the Day

April 7, 2010
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This is just a little on the disturbing side, like something out of a David Lynch movie. The postcard was mailed in 1946, and the correspondence on the back reads: “Having a swell time. The Baths are OK, Had my first one today. This place is over-crowded. Be Home soon.”

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City View Camp

April 4, 2010
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This one isn’t easy to date, but I’ll say that the postcard was released sometime in the late 1930s. On the back: CITY VIEW CAMP Rest and relax where it is cool, with the comfort of knowing you and your personal effects are in absolute safety. City water from a gushing Ozark spring. Mountain top [...]

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Magnolia Court

April 4, 2010
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This Curt Teich postcard dates from approx. 1948, and shows the lovely Magnolia Court cottages in Little Rock, Arkansas. The back provides this description: MAGNOLIA COURT 60 COTTAGES Each with Bath – Beauty Rest Mattresses 7 KITCHENETTE APARTMENTS Private Garages – Phone in Every Room PANELRAY HEAT Phone 3-4186 SOUTH’S FINEST FOODS

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Graceful Gertie

February 23, 2010
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I love this postcard, the colors, the composition… not to mention the talented chicken. On the back of the postcard we get the low-down on Gertie:

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Carl’s Courts Revisited

December 23, 2009
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Here’s another postcard view of Carl’s Courts in Forrest City, Arkansas. My previous post about Carl’s Courts featured a postcard who’s image dated from the late 1940s, whereas this one, a photo postcard, is probably from the late 1950s.

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Carl’s Courts No. 2

December 16, 2009
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Another motel in Forrest City, Arkansas, Carl’s Courts No. 2. Of all the motels that I’ve showcased, this is one that I know we stayed at when I was a child. Every couple of years we would make the trip from Texas to Tennessee and then to Ohio, visiting the grandparents, and we invariably stayed [...]

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D & M Motel, Forrest City

December 15, 2009
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As best as I can tell, the D & M Motel in Forrest City, Arkansas is no longer in business. (I can’t search Google’s street-view because the address isn’t included) The back of the unmailed card reads: D & M MOTEL Don Montgomery, Owner & Manager Air-Conditioned – Modern – Private Baths Telephone in Room [...]

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