San Francisco Postcard Show This Weekend

This weekend, May 23 & 24 2009 is Hal Lutsky's spring postcard show in San Francisco.
It's not the largest venue, but it does get a lot of traffic. Due to the location in Golden Gate Park a lot of passersby stop in.

My friend Arlen has a few tables at the show - selling 25 cent cards. Don't be fooled though, there can be some gems found for those willing to look through his 100+ boxes of cards - especially those looking for foreign cards. Here's a picture from the January show:
With free admission, and 1 Million Postcards from 50 or so dealers to browse, the SF show is a great way to spend an afternoon.

400 Antique Pig Postcards

You won't catch Swine Flu from these cards!

400 Pig Postcards added this month

Postcard Alerts

Now you can create your own postcard wantlists!
We Just added a new feature on cardcow.com which allows you to save your favorite searches, and we will email you when new cards are found.

Simply login in to your account, or create a new one:
http://www.cardcow.com/account/

Then do a search for anything that might interest you:
http://www.cardcow.com/search2.php?section=all&substring=chrome+diners+nj for example.

Then click the "Save This Search" button at the top of the page.

You will then receive an email any time new cards are found that match that exact search.

National Postcard Week Sale!

This week is our annual NPCW sale - get 20% off all orders over $25 through May 10th at http://www.cardcow.com/

Over 10,000 new cards added in the past couple months including several hundred nice Real Photo Postcards, and some Topical Postcards featuring Black Americana & Native American cards - as well as thousands of great US Views.

Visiting Ebay

I had the opportunity to visit Ebay in San Jose yesterday. There are definitely more vintage postcards on their web site than at their corporate office. Lots of other collectibles adorning employee's offices though!

Old Postcards at the Magic Kingdom

I was at Disney World again last week, and hidden in one of the old stores on Main St. Kodak has an exhibit of photography, featuring a lot of postcards and travel emphemera.


First we have a Kodak folding brownie camera. Note the NY City Central Park Postcard (not a real photo, so I'm not sure why they have that behind the camera).


Next we have another Brownie camera, and a few miscelaneous postcards.


Postcards as part of a 1933 Chicago World's Fair Display:


And finally we have a nice 1940's/50's roadside display:

Google Eyes

And you thought Google wasn't around in 1915...