“The Address To Be Written on this Side.” A quick way to date older postcards is to look at the back and see if there’s a postmark. But while you’re there, check if the back is divided. Originally, postcards had to have the address on one side and the picture (and message on the other)….
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Cnr of Brisbane and George Streets, Launceston. Blundells is on the corner that now has Holyman House (the big white place with the travel agents that isn’t the Flight Centre). This is before 1912. Larger version The two-storey building on the right is next door to the Princess Theatre which isn’t there (it opened 1911,…
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New postcard: Unloading Bananas New Orleans, LA. On the back: “At New Orleans, the world’s greatest banana port, more than 700 ships arrive each year loaded, each with 25,000 to 50,000 bunches of this popular fruit. At the banana wharves the individual bunch is carried from the hold of the ship to the door of…
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So the mail didn’t bring me the books it should have brought, but it did bring me some postcards This one is Alexandra Bridge at the Cataract Gorge. Which is sort of this view. It’s one of those pictures where the more you look at it, they more you see. Guess where this is! This…
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