Bar/Pub/Lounge – Global Postcard Sales

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Four Seas Restaurant, “Eight Immortals” (San Francisco)
Google tells us this restaurant is still going strong, since the 1930s, so this unused card from the 1960s of the “Eight Immortals” cocktail lounge is a little piece of nostalgia from its history. Grade: 1

Code: 32100001
Price: $4.00
Top of the Mark, San Francisco
As the card says, “Truly the world’s most spectacular cocktail lounge!” and while that may or may not have been true in the 1950s when this unused card (H.S. Crocker 5:SF-26A) was produced, it has rivals now. Two of these cards of the Mark Hopkins Hotel are available. Grades: 1

Code: 32100002
Price: $3.00
Key West, Florida
The printed caption on reverse says “Greetings from Key West, Florida.” Unused card 2US FL 2009 from Florida Keys Gifts and Souvenirs, beginning to age on reverse but fine on the front. Grade: 1

Code: 32100003
Price: $2.50

Stouffer’s (Chicago, USA)

From Stouffer’s “Top of the Rock,” atop the Prudential Building. Plastichrome card P19111, unused, but with the date “June 1957” pencilled on reverse, and also a travel agency’s large rubber stamp, and a significant stain too. None of these affect the front, which is fine. Grade: 4

Code: 32100004

Price: $1.50

Bourbon Street, French Quarter (New Orleans, USA)
It’s not so much what the card shows, as what was done to it. It was mailed from Key West (two stamps) in February 1986 to a Malaysian address, but wound up in Minneapolis–which put the postmark that actually cancelled the stamps. From there it went on to Malaysia. TMI. Grade: 3

Code: 32100005
Price: $3.00
Bourbon Street, New Orleans (USA)
Iconic 1960s view. Unused Crocker card GLR-437, faithfully describing this area of the French Quarter as “Crazy Mixed-up Bourbon Street.” Grade: 2

Code: 32100006
Price: $3.00
Copacabana (New York City)
Typical unused advertising card from the club in the mid-60s. They carefully specify their minimum charges in a way that looks–for lack of a better word–badgering. It has some fingerprint smudges on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 32100007
Price: $8.50
Muddy Murphy’s Irish Pub (Singapore)
Unused 2006 postcard from this Singapore pub. Grade: 1

Code: 32100008
Price: $2.00
Valentino Disco, Mazatlan (Mexico)
Disco is coming back. You heard it here first! Unused card, heavily handled, not damaged but just clearly not new either. Grade: 3

Code: 32100009
Price: $3.50
Ginza bars, Tokyo
Many of the bars may have changed but the scene is the same from this 1980s unmailed card. Minor smudging on reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 32100010
Price: $4.00
If you were here (Australia)
Dating from 1996, this Wayne Zerbe card has minor aging on reverse, and was never mailed. Grade: 1

Code: 32100011
Price: $4.00
Bangkok, midnite
Unused 1990s card in as-new condition, of Bangkok’s nightlife in its heyday. Grade: 1

Code: 32100012
Price: $4.00
Kao Sarn Road (Bangkok)
Two new, unused cards of this globally famous backpacker heaven are available. Also spelled Kaosan Road in caption on reverse. Grades: 1

Code: 32100013
Price: $6.00

Patpong (Bangkok)

Who knows, there may have been a time not so long ago when Patpong accounted for the majority of overseas visits to Bangkok. But why is this card a bit more expensive? It’s because of the stamp on the back, a 1-1/4″ by 4-3/4″ massive view of one of the royal barges during the Golden Jubilee in 1996. Card was mailed in 1997 and the stamp has one legible postmark. Despite a little bit of abrasion on the reverse, this card is well worth the price. Grade: 2

Code: 32100014

Price: $17.00

Pattaya, multiple views (Thailand)
People tend either to love or hate this seaside resort town. We are on one of those sides. Card is unused, from 1980s, but in excellent shape. Grade: 1

Code: 32100015
Price: $3.00
Bistro (Cyprus)
Unmailed 4-3/4″ x 6-3/4″ K.N. Papadopolous 1512 card from late 1990s, aging just a bit on the back–of the card. Grade: 2

Code: 32100016
Price: $3.50
Cleary’s Pub (Dublin)
If you’ve been waiting for a card from this special pub on Amiens Street, your wait is over! Mailed in 1981, this card has its stamp and mostly legible postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 32100017
Price: $3.50
Milwaukee Public Museum, saloon (Wisconsin)
One of a series of cards captioned “Streets of Old Milwaukee” in the Milwaukee Public Museum, each one appropriately captioned on the reverse. Unused, from the 1960s. Grade: 1

Code: 32100018
Price: $1.50
Paddock, Hilton Hotel (Kuala Lumpur)
In its day, the Hilton was arguably the greatest of the mass-market hotels in Malaysia. But it’s gone now. We remember some interesting times there. Four cards from the 1980s are available. One is unused (Grade: 1, $4). Three were mailed, each with two stamps and partial postmark (Grades: 2, $4.50).

Code: 32100019
Price: $4.00
Sydney Hilton, Marble Bar (Australia)
Five cards are available, with serrated edges. Here are the details: Three are unused and just as you see in the scan (Grades: 1, $4.50). One is the same card as the scan, and was mailed, with stamp but no postmark, in 1984 (Grade: 4, $2). One is unused, but where the scan shows “Hilton International Sydney,” this card has “Sydney Hilton.” Same photos, though (Grade: 1, $4.50).

Code: 32100020
Price: $4.50
Hotel President Wilson, Le Charlie’s Bar (Geneva)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32100021
Price: $2.50
Merry-Go-Round Lounge, Sheraton-Plaza Hotel (Boston)
Two unused cards are available, from the mid-1960s. “Circus-like fun.” Just what the sophisticated hotel needed. Grades: 1

Code: 32100022
Price: $4.00
Malaysian cartoonist Lat, Rotan at bar
Lat is and always will be Malaysia’s most famous (and perceptive) cartoonist. These cards were issued by the New Straits Times, among others, and meant to be cut from a sheet, so all in the series will have irregular edges. Two of these are available. These were mailed in 1991 with Pahang stamps and legible postmarks, but also massive ink transfer on the front. The better one is Grade: 3 ($2) and the other is Grade: 5 ($1).

Code: 32100023
Price: $2.00
The Dog House (Hong Kong)
This conundrum of a card (with serrated edges) has the Hongkong Post’s Circular Service postage pre-printed and yet there’s a place to write an address–suggesting that if you are in Hong Kong (!) and want to send the card for free, you can do so. But you need to buy it here first. Grades: 1

Code: 32100025
Price: $3.00
Coyote Bar & Grill (Hong Kong)
Unused card. “Mexican with Attitude.” Grade: 1

Code: 32100026
Price: $2.00
Face on the Bar Room Floor (Colorado, USA)
Unused Dexter Press card 82816-B (and #3060) of this famous painting at the Teller House. One would not have expected such a nice and evocative poem to end quite that way … Grade: 1

Code: 32100027
Price: $1.00
New Hotel Jefferson, St. Louis (Missouri, USA)
Unused Curteich-Chicago card 5B-H724, back in the day. Grade: 1

Code: 32100028
Price: $3.00
Temple Bar Dublin (Ireland)
An historical area of Dublin, not one specific bar, pictured on this unused Insight Ireland card SP 230. But as there seems to be a pub in the picture, we slide the card into this category too. Grade: 1

Code: 32100029
Price: $5.00
Pattaya at Night (Thailand)
Pattaya is a love-it-or-hate-it proposition. Two of these cards TC 920 are available. One is unused (Grade: 1, $5). The other was mailed with a 3D-effect stamp (ridged plastic, quite sturdy) that still has two margin edges attached. Much of the Thai-language postmark is also there, but the stamp itself by design can’t hold postmarks well (Grade: 1, $12)

Code: 32100030
Price: $5.00
And now — what’ll YOU have? (USA)
Three of these unused Laff Gram cards 132-D are available. Grades: 1

Code: 32100031
Price: $2.00
New Orleans, French Quarter (USA)
Contemporary, unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32100032
Price: $2.00
Hurricane (USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32100033
Price: $3.00
Music and the craic (Ireland)
Wikipedia helps the non-Irish among us to understand that “the craic” means fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation. We’ll go for that! Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32100034
Price: $4.00
Pattaya at Night (Thailand)
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 32100036
Price: $3.00
Greetings from Ireland, multiple views
A card for many categories, mailed in 2011 with coloured E0.82 metered postage label, Priority label, and a Santa Claus sticker. Apart from the bar, whose name we can’t make out, it also shows Kilkenny Castle (from the 12th century) and Jerpoint Abbey. Someone has also rubber-stamped the logo of a fish on the reverse. Very busy. Grade: 4

Code: 32100037
Price: $2.00
Amsterdam, Coffee Shop
Ahem, not just a coffee shop. Card mailed in 2012 with three different stamps, postmark, and Priority label. Minor postal creasing. Grade: 2

Code: 32100038
Price: $4.00
Shambles Square, Manchester (England)
Specifically, The Old Wellington Inn, and Sinclair’s Oyster Bar, in this postally unused card with inked notations on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 32100039
Price: $1.00
Downingtown, Ramada Inn Resort (Pennsylvania)
Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 32100040
Price: $1.00
Lan Kwai Fong (Hong Kong)
An extraordinarily upscale and popular nightlife area of Hong Kong Island. Unused card, 5-1/4″ x 7″. Minor smudge on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 32100041
Price: $4.00
Amsterdam, Coffeeshop
Coffee and … Mailed in 2013 with stamp, postmark, and minor abrasion on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 32100042
Price: $3.00

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