Amusement Parks – Global Postcard Sales

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Anaheim Disneyland, Tomorrowland

Great for Disney buffs, a view of the Kaiser Aluminum exhibit. Card dates from 1958 or earlier, and two are available. One has a penciled date on the reverse along with a large rubber stamp from a travel agency. But the card was not used otherwise and the front is undamaged (Grade: 4, $1) while the other card is unused (Grade: 1, $3).

Code: 31800001

Price: $1.00

Epcot Center, Geosphere (Orlando, Florida)
From Walt Disney World, this card went from Orlando to Phoenix, where it was mailed to Malaysia with three stamps and a fully legible postmark in 1993. Grade: 2

Code: 31800002
Price: $3.00
Disneyland (Anaheim, California)
This card of Disneyland’s Main Street Station was mailed in the late 1970s and has the stamp but postmark isn’t legible. Grade: 2

Code: 31800003
Price: $2.50
Busch Gardens, Loch Ness Monster, Williamsburg (Virginia)
Billed as the “fastest, highest, longest steel coaster in the world,” at least when the card was printed, The Loch Ness Monster would definitely qualify as one we would watch from the ground. The card has one perforated edge, indicating it had been in a set. Mailed in the late 1980s, with one 33-cent stamp and airmail sticker, but indistinct postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 31800004
Price: $2.00
Busch Gardens, LeScoot-Flume, Williamsburg (Virginia)
Perforated edge, so part of a set. The LeScoot-Flume ride “re-creates the thrills and excitement of a French-Canadian logging camp.” Card mailed in 1987 from Washington, with 33-cent Verville stamp and USPS airmail sticker. Grade: 2

Code: 31800005
Price: $2.00

Anaheim Disneyland, Monsanto Hall of Chemistry

Certainly a great catch for Disney collectors, two of these unused cards are available, straight from Tomorrowland at Disneyland and looking as good as they did when they were new in the late 50s. Grades: 1

Code: 31800006

Price: $4.00

Anaheim Disneyland, Monsanto Hall of Chemistry

This unmailed card from Tomorrowland is great on the front, but the back has the date 1958 pencilled in, as well as a large black rubber stamp from a travel agency. If you’re not too worried about that, this is a great addition to Disney ephemera collections. Grade: 4

Code: 31800007

Price: $2.50

Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia (California)
This card, issued by the amusement park in 1986, made its way to Malaysia where it was mailed in 1990. It has a Malaysian stamp and full postmark, and has survived quite well. Grade: 3

Code: 31800008
Price: $3.50
Disney World, Cinderella Castle
Two cards are available. One was mailed in 1973, and therefore would have been one of the earlier editions of anything from Disney World in Orlando. Heavily and not readably postmarked, with minor corner creasings (Grade: 3, $2). The other was mailed in 1976, with a 9-cent stamp, and is in better shape (Grade: 1, $3).

Code: 31800009
Price: $3.00
Fairgrounds (Japan)
From the presence of the general public, we’re thinking this might be a military fairground or display area of some sort. If you can read Japanese, you’ll know right away. Unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 31800010
Price: $12.00
Disneyland, Tokyo
This card was mailed from Tokyo in 1983, just ten days after the park first opened. The card has a stamp and partial postmark, and clear printed attribution of Tokyo Disneyland on the reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 31800011
Price: $6.00
Disney Pluto (motion effect)
Card bought at Tokyo Disneyland in 1982 and never mailed. It is a 3D-type card in which the motion effect is created by a ridged plastic coating. Pluto is chasing and then being chased. Front of card is in terrific condition; reverse is mottling and has minor staining. Grade: 1

Code: 31800014
Price: $9.00
Souvenir folder of Ocean Park, Venice/Santa Monica (California)
It’s a nice accordion folder of 20 different views, if you count the front and reverse covers. Published by Western Publishing & Novelty, probably in the early 1900s, it was designed for mailing but never mailed. A bit abraded after much handling but it’s all in one piece, never repaired, and quite nice for evoking those happy days. Grade: 2

Code: 31800015
Price: $19.00
Clock of the World, Tomorrowland, Anaheim Disneyland (California)
From the late 1950s, this unused card, issued by Disneyland itself, is in perfect condition. Grade: 1

Code: 31800016
Price: $5.00
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Anaheim Disneyland
From the late 1950s, this unused card, issued by Disneyland itself, is in near-perfect condition. Note the true name of the ride, “Mad Tea Party.” Grade: 1

Code: 31800017
Price: $5.00
Anaheim Disneyland, TWA Rocket (California)
How ironic is it that some 50 years after this card was issued, Disneyland survives but TWA does not? Sweet caption on the reverse: “As nations contemplate a trip to the moon …” Unused card in superb condition. Grade: 1

Code: 31800018
Price: $9.00
Anaheim Disneyland, Richfield Autopia
Please note: this little (2.4″ x 3.9″) card with rounded edges is not a postcard, but instead issued to young children who “passed” their driving experience at Richfield Autopia in Disneyland’s early days. The reverse looks like an identification card and has a paragraph urging the child to “fill out this card for permanent identification and carry it with you. It entitles you to friendly, helpful service at more than 4,000 Richfield stations…” Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31800019
Price: $5.00
Walt Disney World, Orlando (folio)
This may be one of the earlier official Disney World fold-out souvenirs (index #0111-0286), with 26 photos. Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 31800021
Price: $14.00
Walt Disney World preview (Florida)
The caption on the back of this card, mailed in 1970 from Tampa with a 5-cent stamp, says “The Castle’s medieval restaurant will overlook Fantasyland …” so we know for sure this card is a preview of things to come. Grade: 2

Code: 31800022
Price: $9.00
Hunt’s Pier, Wildwood-by-the-Sea (New Jersey)
Mailed in 1972 with 6-cent stamp and full postmark, there’s also some postmark transfer on the front that affects that caption. Grade: 3

Code: 31800023
Price: $1.00
Walt Disney World, The Hall of Presidents (Florida)
Mailed in 1975 with a 10-cent stamp and partly legible postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 31800024
Price: $3.00
Blackpool (England)
Quite recent card with stamp, blue bilingual airmail sticker affixed, orange postal bar coding, and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 31800025
Price: $1.50
Ocean Park Amazing Asian Animals, Hong Kong (set of seven)
Two of these unused sets are available, from 2010, each set wrapped in the original pre-printed cellophane as officially issued by Hong Kong Post. Each card has the stamp (with corresponding animal) pre-printed, good for mailing anywhere in the world–if you’re in Hong Kong, that is. Ocean Park is one of Hong Kong’s two iconic amusement parks. Grades: 1

Code: 31800026
Price: $22.00
Marineland of Florida, three trained porpoises
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31800027
Price: $1.00
Miami Seaquarium, Flippy bowling (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4572 (65451), aging. Grade: 2

Code: 31800028
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, double jump
Unused Koppel Color Card FG-98 (88058). Grade: 2

Code: 31800029
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, Greetings
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC-4242 (43503). Grade: 2

Code: 31800030
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, main entrance (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC-3942 (29040). Grade: 1

Code: 31800031
Price: $1.00
Gulfarium, singing porpoises (Fort Walton, Florida)
Unused. Grade: 2

Code: 31800032
Price: $2.00
Marineland of the Pacific, Zippy
By now this bottle-nosed porpoise has gone on to porpoise heaven, but he lives on in this card. Just for fun, check some of the other dolphin/porpoise cards from Florida and elsewhere. See any similarities? Unused, slightly aging H.S. Crocker card GW-268. Grade: 2

Code: 31800033
Price: $2.00
Marineland of Florida, porpoise rings bell
Unused Color-King card 120325. Grade: 1

Code: 31800034
Price: $1.00
Marineland of Florida, porpoise takes fish
Unused Color-King card 120326. Grade: 1

Code: 31800035
Price: $2.00
Miami Seaquarium, Flipper
Unused Natural Color card FNC 4893 (79895), explaining the TV program that once featured this captive mammal. Grade: 1

Code: 31800036
Price: $3.00
Miami Seaquarium, Corky the porpoise (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 4395 (55217). Grade: 2

Code: 31800037
Price: $2.00
Ft. Lauderdale, Ocean World
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC 5257 (96997). Grade: 1

Code: 31800038
Price: $2.00
St. Petersburg Beach, Aquatarium, porpoise (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC5184 (92297). Grade: 1

Code: 31800039
Price: $1.00
St. Petersburg Beach, Aquatarium, trained porpoise (Florida)
Unused Koppel Color Card FNC5198 (92906) of this trained porpoise at the St. Petersburg Beach Aquatarium in Florida. In a classic case of Karma, the Aquatarium closed in the mid-1970s to become the Silver Sands Beach and Racquet Club condo. Grade: 1

Code: 31800040
Price: $1.00
Busch Gardens, lagoon (Florida)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-23a, of this attraction at Anheuser-Busch’s brewery in Tampa. Grade: 3

Code: 31800041
Price: $0.50
Busch Gardens, nesting flamingos (Florida)
Unused Ward Beckett card T-8-B, of “colorful flamingos nesting beside the beautiful lagoon at Busch Gardens, located in Tampa, Florida, at Anheuser-Busch’s forty million-dollar brewery.” Yes, but do they also get free samples? Grade: 2

Code: 31800042
Price: $1.00
Marineland, flamingoes (Florida)
Marineland first opened in 1938 (under a different name) and has gone through more twists and turns than a leaping porpoise since then. Watch your local news for whatever may happen next. Meanwhile, this is an unused Color-King card 120322 showing the world’s first Marine Oceanarium. Grade: 1

Code: 31800043
Price: $1.00

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