Showing posts with label postcard. Show all posts
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Found: At the Turn of the Road, Door County, WI

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Found: "AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD" POTOWATOMI STATE PARK, DOOR COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
C.T. Art-Colortone, E. A. Bishop, Racine, Wisconsin. Circa 1930s.
Handwritten in fountain pen on back: "Dear El, Am having a nice time up here. 
Hope you enjoyed your vacation. I am writing in the car in town so excuse the scribbling. Love, Edna."
Postmarked Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, August 26, 1936, 3 PM.
Come autumn, the I-43 corridor heading north can be bumper to bumper with cars and SUVs especially when "fall colors" are peaking in Door County and/or when there's a Packers game at Lambeau. Taking a drive "up north" provides an escape and in fact a tourism slogan once read "Escape to Wisconsin" which locals often modified to read "Escape Wisconsin". Postcards such as this promoted the idea of Sunday drives to view the landscape as seen through the automobile wind shield.

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Location: Potawatomi State Park, 3740 Park Drive, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235, USA

Found: Too Far Out for Wisconsin!

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Found: Tammy Baldwin is too FAR OUT for Wisconsin! paid for by the Republican Party of Wisconsin,
full color postcard mailed October 2012
Found: You don't have to look too closely at Tammy Baldwin's record to see why Wisconsin families aren't feeling groovy about her agenda...Named the most liberal congressperson in America. Paid for by the Republican Party of Wisconsin,
full color postcard mailed October 2012
Wisconsin elected Tammy Baldwin over former governor Tommy Thompson to the U.S. Sentate 2012 despite this colorful postcard mailer turning Tammy Baldwin into a lava lamp. Was our neighborhood in Appleton, the only one to receive this eye catching postcard?

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Moonlight on Lake Michigan, Manitowoc, WI

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Moonlight on Lake Michigan, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, July 5, 2008

Found: Superior, Wis., Moonlight on Lake Superior Bay
 published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1907
 Found: "Two Rivers -- Coolest Spot in Wisconsin"
by Curteich, Chicago, circa 1930
Found: Moonlight on Lake  Geneva, from Recreation Building, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, circa 1930
Found: Moonlight on Lake Monona, Foot of Monona Avenue, Madison, Wis. by E.A. Bishop Publishing, circa 1930
Found: Moonlight on Ellison Bay, Door County, Wisconsin by Ahrens News Agency, circa 1930
Found: Moonlight on Wisconsin River, Nelson Dewey State Park, Near Prairie Du Chien, Wis. circa 1931
Caption: "...Indeed it is difficult to imagine a scene more charming than the Wisconsin River by moonlight, as the quiet waters reflect the silvery rays on the pebbled beach and along the winding shores and wooded banks."
The melancholy moon shimmering on lakes and rivers appears a common theme circa 1930. In post-Great Depression America, the faraway moon touching the landscape creates a mystic escape.

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Location: Memorial Dr, Manitowoc, WI 54220, USA
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