Oh, strike that! Got it wrong! Meant to say: THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!! ROLL ON 2010!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Laissez Faire,,, Viva Las Vegas!
Greetings from Nevada, circa 1950s, linen postcard
Card available here.
For those who adhere to a minimal government or laissez faire doctrine, a 1950s Greetings from Nevada postcard - "The One Sound State" where there was no sales tax, no state income tax, or inheritance tax. Not even a thumb tax! Of course, there wasn't much government either, allowing the Mafia to govern the gaming industry quite nicely, thank you very much....
Sunday, December 27, 2009
A Case of Four Flush
A case of four flush, circa 1910
Card available here.
A four flush is a poker hand that is one card short of being a full flush. A four flusher is a person who makes empty boasts or bluffs when holding a four flush. By the 1880s, the term was used more generally to describe a welcher, piker, blowhard or braggart. Do you know any four flushers?
Need we say more?
Saturday, December 26, 2009
The Red Carpet Service - Where Have You Gone? Flying In An Earlier Age
The caption on the reverse of this United Airlines postcard from circa 1960 proclaims "Red Carpet service is the finest in Air Travel". Oh, wherefore art thou Red Carpet service? Gone the way of in-flight service and the Friendly Skies...
Card available here.
Neither Eastern Airlines or the Super C Constellation are with us anymore. But airline safety has improved (got to look on the bright side).
Card available here.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas, Dear Readers!
A Merry Christmas to Our Readers. We hope Santa stopped by your place.
Have some fun!
A message to those we won't be spending Christmas with this year: 'Til our next meeting!
Merry Christmas to Those in Uniform - "On A Hike"
To the men and women in uniform and their much enduring families, Merry Christmas!
On A Hike, indeed! circa 1907
Thursday, December 24, 2009
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