Postcards from a Vacation
Category: What on Earth!?
Yes, the circle of life spins around once more as I find these postcards in the house among the stuff left by the previous owners. Especially interesting to me? This postcard, which also happens to be... 
...an actual picture that I took while visiting Anna Maria. Small world.
Some vintage postcard selections...
This hotel is still in Miami, but it has a different name...
Whoa.
Who was the art director responsible for this one? "Let's make the dad more...I don't know...like a creepy uncle-type figure. Yeah! Here, give him this hat. Oh! And this picnic basket. Tell him to run like his knees are fused together. Perfect!"
Oh, the seventies. Such a funny, funny decade. The hair. The clothes. The drugs that caused a guy to drive his car into the surf...
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Comments
Weird... you're dead right about the style of the post card, at least the people, but the car is most definitely a late 1980s Mercedes! Think that model came out in 1987 or 1988!
Piece of useless trivia (unless you happen to own one and want to save on gas money): the diesel version of that model drives quite happily on old frying oil, sunflower oil and whatever you happen to pour into the tank...
Posted by: Ragnar | March 31, 2007 5:30 AM
Beg to differ. Looks to me like a Grand Marquis. I learned to drive on a '79 that looked just like that (though it was mint green with a dark green vinyl roof), but they didn't change the body style until ? late 80s?
Granted, our monitor's on its last legs, but that has got to be a Mercury.
Posted by: Lenise | April 1, 2007 8:42 PM
I found myself at work perusing your horde for 30 minutes before I had to do some actual work. Wow!! While I probably can't fathom the degree of clutter and amount of debris, I am absolutely fascinated with your effort of turning lemons into lemonade. I foresee a best-selling book, perhaps a large scale coffee table book. Maybe a biography or two of those passed. Mmm, mmm lemonade!!
Posted by: marke | April 2, 2007 8:33 PM