Brook Mays & Co. "A Werner Piano Will Win its Way to your affections, Werner Piano Co. Manufacturers, Chicago". Domestic One cent, Foreign Two cents..


"Hershey Foods Corporation Hershey Chocolate & Confectionery Division, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033/ Oakdale, California 95361." Posted August 17, 1978.


"America's Shopping Center Wards. Dear Customer: Our new Fall & Winter Catalogs for 1959 have just arrived. Won't you please come in soon and ask for your own personal copy. Montgomery Ward" Posted Aug 21, 1959.



Comal Cottons Mill Retail Store. "New Braunfels Textile Mills Inc., New Braunfels, Texas Wish you were here - the bargains at this mill's store are fabulous - thousands of beautiful fabrics at mill prices - all year round"



"New Braunfels Textile Mills. Retail Stores in Texas: Comal Cottons New Braunfels, Austin, Corpus Christi, Cleburne. Temple Cottons - Temple; Ennis Cottons - Ennis."



"The biggest new entertainment event of the year." - LIFE." "I Was In Cinerama!" Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market Street, San Francisco 2, Calif. MArket 1-5000. Exclusive San Francisco Home of CINERAMA.



"Service by the Truckload" Baldwin-Hill Company, Home & Industrial Rockwool Insulation. Baldwin-Hill Company Trenton, N.J.- Kalamazoo, Mich. - Huntington, Ind. - Temple, Texas - Housatonic, Mass. Postmarked July 15, 1955



"I'll Play Santa and Give ________ A Pair of Weatherbird Shoes" Peters' Weatherbird Shoes. Copyright 1907. "The Mark of a Good Shoe, Pete's Shoe Co.'s Diamond Brand, St. Louis. Weather Birds for all the year. A set of 12 Post Cards sent on receipt of 10 cents, Stamps or Coin. Peters Shoe Co., St. Louis, U.S.A." United States and Canada one cent. Foreign Two cents.



Lamme's Candies since 1885. Home of Texas Chewie Pecan Pralines, 919 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas. "Dear __________, I am at Lamme's today mailing you a box of Texas Chewie Pecan Pralines. Hope you like them as well as we do. _________"

Lamme's Candies was located at 919 Congress in 1964 and remained at that location for only a few years.



"Holiday Inn of America, The Nation's Innkeeper (r). Your Host from Coast to Coast (r)" "Holiday Inn, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Intersection of Central Avenue & U.S. Interstate Hwy. 26. Ph:: 632-8901 - AC: 307, Air-conditioned - Restaurant. Swimming Pool, Free TV -- Free Holidex Reservations, Bar and Lounge." Postmarked 1969.





"1987 Corn Palace. Mitchell, South Dakota, home of the world's only Corn Palace. Open everyday, free to the public, from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Open weekdays 8am to 5pm the balance of the year. The panel theme and all corn, small grains, and grasses are changed every year. (c) 1987 The Goin Co., P. O. Box 551, Mitchell, SD 57301. Card No. CP-1087. Postmarked Jul 16, 1987.





"Tai Shan, San Antonio, Texas. The finest Chinese-American Restaurant, whre fine foods reach celestrial heights. Photography by C. Dorris of Amescolor. Card No. 21710, postmarked October 18, 1965.





"Adolph Coors Company, Golden, Colorado. Coors, America's Fine Light Beer" Postmarked March 20, 1971.





"Eljer Planter--Toilet Tank Cover. Practical as shelf for toilet articles or books. Beautiful as planter for liveflowers. Colorful in pastel colors or white. Serviceable in lustrous Vitrous China. Made exclusively by ELJER -- style leader for six decades. Optional on ELJER tanks for Estate, Emblem or Ellis Toilets. The Murray Corporation of America Eljer Plumbingware Division, 3 Gateway Center Pittsburgh 22, PA." Postmarked November 12, 1964.





"Greetings From Blue Earth, Mn 'The land of the Jolly Green Giant' 60 ft., 8,000 lb. Green Giant welcomes you to Blue Earth." Photo Courtesty of GT. Card No. 471431, postmarked 1987.





"Clem Mikeska's Bar-B-Q, 57th Street at Ave. M, Temple, Texas. "Our customers say it's Texas! finest Bar-B-Q" "Specializing in Premium Omaha corn fed beef carefully cooked, served with our speical sauce, and our own home made sausage served cafeteria style, or take out. We cater any size group, anywhere in Texas. Try us, you'll be glad you did." Card No. 67998, Walt Hawkins, Assoc. of Temple.



"Pepsi-Cola Be My Guest For 18 Holes of Putting at Putt-Putt Golf Course. Ed. Lauffer, 6780 Burnet Rd. Austin, Tx. 78757". Offer dated 1975.



"Among the many beaches of Rio de Janeira the ARPOADOR takes a special place with its sand and sea framed by rocks and mountains in a beautiful landscape." VARIG Airlines. Postmarked January 13, 1961, printed in Brazil.



"This is the unique Miller High Life brewhouse. Shining chrome and copper, custom-made kettles, tiles and stainless steel . . . all are spotlessly clean at all times. In these gigantic kettles precious grains and malt are brewed together in a frangrant union to make the Champagne of Bottle Beer." Miller high Life The Champagne of Bottle Beer, Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wis. U. S. A. Card No. J1627.



"American Airlines - Americas Leading Airline -- No one ever forgets their first view of New York from the air, fringed by docks and crowned by skyscrapers; a memorable picture day or night." Card No. T151-8.



Skyline, Memphis, Tennessee. "P.S. We are seeing all the sights traveling with a Conoco TOURAIDE. It's wonderful! Your Mileage Merchant at his Conoco Station will tell you how to get one."



"United Airlines - Lazy, carefree days on the sunny sands of Waikiki Beach are one of the many highlights of United's low-cost inclusive 'Hawaiian Vacations.' Ask United or your Authorized Travel Agent for details. -- Speed Your Mail by Air" Card No. CA-636, printed in U.S.A. From United Air Lines Kodachrome.



"This Lovely Refreshment Set Can Be Yours! - Desert Gold 8 - 12 oz. Glasses 1 - 3 qt. Pitcher. Dear Customer, On my next delivery I would like to leave you a beautiful Desert Gold Pitcher free ! ! This can be yours with an order for 8 large tumblers filled with Superior Dairies Creamed Cottage Cheese, Only 59 cents each. Start your set t-day. 1 glass each week or 2 glasses each week. Please check one. your milkman."



"Hackney's World Famous Seafood Restaurant, Atlantic City, N.J. Chef Bob McCarr is ready to serve you these delicious Lobsters--direct from our live lobster pool and cooked to your taste." Ca. 1950s.







"Pop Ernest Sea Food Restaurant, Monterey California. Traditionally famous for fine sea foods since 1907." Post Card dated February 23, 1952.



"Cincinnati Skyline as seen from the Kentucky Shore of the Ohio. P.S. We are seeing all the sights traveling with a Conoco TOURAIDE. It's wonderful! Your MIleage Merchant at his Conoco Statio will tell you how to get one."

Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis 6, Indiana, U.S.A. Postmarked April 29, 1956.



"Capitol Building, Jackson, Mississippi. P.S. We are seeing all the sights traveling with a Conoco TOURAIDE. It's wonderful! Your Mileage Merchant at his Conoco STation will tell you how to get one."









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