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Music Stand

May 15, 2010
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This early postcard dates from 1904, and shows the Music Stand in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

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Redondo Beach Pier

May 13, 2010
Redondo Beach Pier

Published by M. Kashower Co. of Los Angeles, this view of the pier at Redondo Beach probably dates from about 1917. The building on the right housed the casino, auditorium and bath house.

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The Raymond

May 13, 2010
The Raymond, Pasadena, CA

Another postcard view of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena. The previous card dated from before the “split back” era, making this card several years younger. No publisher is notated, and the quality is clearly inferior to the older effort.

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Raymond Hotel

May 13, 2010
Raymond Hotel

This early postcard was published in 1902 by the Detroit Photographic Co. and shows the Raymond Hotel In Pasadena, California. First built in 1886, the original structure burned on Easter Sunday in 1895. The second building, shown here, was constructed in 1901. The hotel failed to survive the depression and was torn down in 1934, [...]

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Broadway

May 10, 2010
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From the Western Publishing & Novelty Co. comes this postcard view of Broadway in Los Angeles, California. The card probably dates from the 1940s.

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Ferry Building

May 8, 2010
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This card shows the Ferry Building in San Francisco, a terminal for ferries that opened in 1898. Although unmailed, the card can be dated to between 1901 and 1907 because it has an undivided back along with the inscription, “This side is for address only”. Pre-1901 cards would include the line, “Private Mailing Card”, and [...]

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Romantic Highways

May 7, 2010
Southern California's Romantic Highways Postcard

On the back: “Southern California’s highways are the most romantic in the world. It is literally but a moment from thriving modern cities to the sleeping haciendas of the early Spanish Rancheros. An hour’s drive takes one from the shores of the beautiful Pacific to snow capped peaks, with golden flecked orange trees nestling in [...]

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Grill Point

May 5, 2010
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This Curt Teich postcard dates from 1940. On the back: “Lake Arrowhead, a mile high, with its picturesque pine-clad shores, is situated in the heart of the San Bernardino Mountains, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles. Grill Point is a popular playground for the picnic crowds at Lake Arrowhead.”

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Sacramento Cottontails

April 21, 2010
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Another postcard from the earliest years of the 20th century, this one with no indication as to the publisher. Apparently the card was sold at the California Academy of Sciences, a museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Care to read the description on the back? OK, you asked for it:

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The Beverly Hills Hotel

April 10, 2010
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This postcard of the Beverly Hills Hotel was postmarked in 1969. The correspondence on the back is interesting, as it appears to reference the movie business: “We are here for tonight with Don. Have been at the studio. This p.m. watching him work. It was interesting as we know nothing about such things. Tomorrow a.m. [...]

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The Ambassador Hotel

April 10, 2010
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The Ambassador Hotel, designed by the renowned architect Myron Hunt, first opened in 1921. In spite of public protest, the historic structure was demolished in 2005 to make way for a school.

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Mountain View Motel

April 7, 2010
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MOUNTAIN VIEW MOTEL 730 W. Line Street, Bishop, Calif. Phone: Upton 3-4242 Thirty-two new units with TV, refrigerated air conditioning and phones in rooms. Heated Pool for quietly relaxing, three blocks west U.S. Hwy. 395. Real Coffee.

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Motel 6

April 6, 2010
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This postcard shows the first Motel 6, a single location in Santa Barbara, California that was opened in 1962. This card was postmarked in 1965.

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Rancho Bernardo TraveLodge

April 5, 2010
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I don’t know why, but we never stayed at TraveLodge on our family vacations, opting instead for Howard Johnsons, Holiday Inn or Best Western. Of course I always wanted to stay there, no doubt because of the sleepwalking bear on their billboards. This postcard is neat because of the variety of cool cars in the [...]

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