Yes, I’m Posting Another Post about Postcards

January 13, 2008

I’ve finally joined Facebook. I haven’t really done much with it. I don’t totally understand it. But i’ve joined it.

Great, just what I need. Another distraction, right?

In other news. I’m getting further into Madame Bovary. Lord, do they eat a lot in that book. So many descriptions of food. And Emma certainly puts on and takes off her shawl and exposes her shoulders often.

I went to Ocean Beach yesterday before my friend Dawn’s son’s 12th birthday party. (lots of screaming and shouting and some tv-thingy called Wi, or Wii or something where you play a guitar. I didn’t really get it either. But the kids were having fun!

Ocean Beach, in San Diego, is probably my favorite beach town/area to go to. It’s very old school. It’s got cafes, an awesome fish taco place, surf shops, record stores, vintage clothing stores, jewelry and bead stores, a famous head shop (The Black), and antique stores. (photo courtesy of San Diego Historical Society)

I went to Newport Avenue Antiques specifically to look for postcards. This is the place where I got the creepy doll postcards a few weeks back. Again, I came back with some treasures. Check it out: (click them to see ‘em bigger or go to my Flicker page on the right).

I’m definitely going to have to do something with these scary canaries. Maybe put a picture of Tippi Hedren in there somewhere.

I couldn’t resist these two postcards (dated 1962) from Solvang California. Solvang, if you don’t know, is a little “Dutch Town” in the Santa Ynez Valley. It’s got windmills and stores with little Dutch figurines and wooden shoes in it. It’s really only about a block long (ok, this is from my memory of it; it may be longer). My mother took my sisters and me to it in the late 1970s. She was so excited to go. We got a hotel– the Best Western, I think. And we walked around the shops and ate a real Dutch dinner in a Dutch restaurant. Ultimately, it felt like a movie set, or a facade of a Dutch Street. I remember feeling a bit underwhelmed by the whole thing. I do recall the Best Western gave us complimentary continental breakfast of coffee and danishes.

More scary dolls (from the same seller, in fact). Check out the description for “Muriel.” A Doll’s birthday party? Ewwwww (shudder).

And the piece-day-resis-tonce. These gems.

can you see that the dress on the two women dancers is actually real material and lace glued onto the postcard?!! Fabulous.