Thursday June 26 2008
Sunday June 15 2008
Tuesday June 10 2008
Postcards From Bill's Edge
Here are more postcards of very young children acting like adults. The first is from 1910, the second undated.
Tuesday June 3 2008
Postcards From Bill's Edge
Before the invention of the Segway, the ostrich cart must have looked like the future of transportation.
The back of the card contains the following warning:
IN THE SPACE BELOW MAY BE WRITTEN SENDER'S NAME AND ADDRESS
(NO OTHER WRITING AND COMMUNICATIONS AFTER MARCH 1st 1907.)
March 1, 1907, was the date on which the US Postal Service first allowed the "divided back" postcard, in which half of the card's back could be used for a message, rather
than the entire back being reserved for the address. I think that they should have written "No other writing and communications before March 1st 1907."
Wednesday May 28 2008
Postcards From Bill's Edge
This 1937 card is not at all weird, but I include it for historical interest. The subject is the RCA Building at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. The RCA Building was built in 1933;
today it is known as the GE Building. It is currently the home of the NBC Nightly News, Saturday Night Live,
and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Even the address has become famous.
Here is a more modern view of the same scene, with the addition of freaky spider sculptures.
