Hotels/Motels – Page 21 – Global Postcard Sales

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Guilin, PingAn Village, Longsheng County, Longji Star-Wish resort (PR China)
Unused card for a property whose online reviews are enticing. Not far from where we are as the crow flies, but the psychic distance is great. Grade: 1

Code: 30900828
Price: $2.00
Bombay, Hotel Taj Mahal with Victoria
This is a photo from 1950 on a contemporary, unused card from the Hotel Taj Intercontinental. Grade: 1

Code: 30900829
Price: $1.00
Brasilia – DF – Brasilia Palace Hotel (Brazil)
Unused card issued as part of a 25th anniversary celebration (of Brasilia) by various Governmental agencies. This therefore is a 2010 card with an earlier photo. The hotel is still there, distinctive architecture and with generally good reviews, including this one from Tripadvisor: “The beautiful 50s modernist building designed by Oscar Niemeyer and the perfect service and hospitality makes you feel you stepped in a 50s James Bond movie.” Grade: 1

Code: 30900831
Price: $2.00
Brasilia – DF – Hotel Nacional (Brazil)
About the best descriptions online reviews yield up for this old property are “sentimental” and “traditional,” which is like a real estate agent saying a property “needs some loving care”. The unused postcard is in far better shape, apparently. Grade: 1

Code: 30900832
Price: $3.00
Pres. Epitácio – SP – Itavera Hotel, multiple views
The card comes from the hotel, and the three views are identified (in Portuguese): the hotel; Igreja Matriz; and Navio Epitácio Pessoa e cais do porto. Unused, slight aging on the card. Grade: 1

Code: 30900833
Price: $4.00
Hotel San Martin, Vina del Mar (Chile)
Older, unused, B&W real-photo style postcard. As for the hotel, such mixed online reviews … we may not have the chance to stay there any time soon. Grade: 1

Code: 30900834
Price: $4.00
Hotel Metropolitano, Quito (Ecuador)
The hotel may be gone, but the unused, sepia postcard lives on — heavily aged and foxed (mottled with age) but with a lot of character. Grade: 3

Code: 30900835
Price: $5.00
Hotel Ita Enramada, Asuncion (Paraguay)
Usually, Tripadvisor is brimming with online reviews about any hotel. Not in this case, though we find no hint that the hotel has closed. What’s up with that? The unused postcard has clearly started to age but is otherwise unmarked. Grade: 1-

Code: 30900836
Price: $5.00
Hotel Casino Ita Enramada (Paraguay)
The more we try to learn about this property, the more confused we get. It definitely looks as though it got caught up in serious politics. This card, however, is immune to all that and is in excellent condition for its age. Grade: 1

Code: 30900837
Price: $6.00
King’s Inn Hotel, beach area (Freeport, Grand Bahama)
Is this now the Bell Channel Inn? Trying to learn exactly what happened with King’s Inn is a real challenge. Happily, we don’t need to go there–so to speak. We have two of these unused Plastichrome cards P78456. One has some light smudging on the reverse (Grade: 2, $3) and the other a quarter-inch tear on the right edge (Grade: 4, $1).

Code: 30900838
Price: $3.00
Hotel Casino Carrasco, Montevideo (Uruguay)
One can only imagine what this classic hotel went through to morph from its name on this unused card (Hotel Casino Carrasco) to its present name (Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco & Spa). It gets very nice online reviews, though, apart from some mumbling about bathrooms not having doors? What’s that about? Grade: 1

Code: 30900839
Price: $4.00
Taipei, Welcome to Cosmos Hotel – restaurant (Taiwan)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30900840
Price: $1.00
Taipei, Welcome to Cosmos Hotel (Taiwan)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 30900841
Price: $1.00
Grand Canyon Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona, USA)
Unused older card made for Utah Parks Company. Lower edge is perforated, so this came from a set. Grade: 1

Code: 30900842
Price: $1.00
Chateau Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies
Unused, aging, sepia Gowen Sutton Co. card, very long pre-dating the ownership change to Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. If we were owners or managers of the hotel, we’d buy this card for (apparently) the cost of a bowl of ice, and frame it for the office or business centre or wherever. The hotel gets such nice online reviews. Grade: 1

Code: 30900843
Price: $4.00
The Lawson Y.M.C.A. (Chicago, Illinois)
Unused Curteichcolor card 0DK-995. Grade: 1

Code: 30900844
Price: $2.00
Hotel La Salle, Main Lobby (Chicago, Illinois)
Unused V.O. Hammon Pub. Co. card 1885, old and noticeably so. Grade: 2

Code: 30900845
Price: $3.00
The Blackstone, English Room (Chicago)
Unused old postcard. By the way, the name now is Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel. Grade: 2

Code: 30900846
Price: $2.00
Abe Martin Lodge, Brown County State Park (Nashville, Indiana, USA)
Unused local card. Grade: 1

Code: 30900847
Price: $0.50
Michigamme, Philomena Cottages and Motel, birches (Michigan, USA)
Unused card, aging. If we were to go to these cottages (which are still there), would we see this scene? Grade: 2

Code: 30900848
Price: $0.50
Colonial Hotel, Springfield (Missouri, USA)
Mailed in 1963 with a 4-cent stamp and two postmarks, the card’s poignant message is if anything overshadowed by the history of the hotel itself. For the full story go to “the library dot org” (we don’t like to create links) and see the blow-by-blow description. The building came down in November 1997. As for the card? Grade: 1

Code: 30900849
Price: $3.00
George Vanderbilt Hotel, Asheville (North Carolina, USA)
The hotel was converted to apartments for the elderly in 1969. The E.C. Kropp card 27157N–much older than that–is unused. Grade: 2

Code: 30900850
Price: $2.00
Quebec, Ocean-Liner passing by the Chateau Frontenac (Canada)
Unused, Photogelatine Engraving card no. 22, old and very clean. Grade: 1

Code: 30900851
Price: $3.00
Le Chateau Frontenac, Quebec (Canada)
We have two of these old, unused cards. The fronts are exactly the same; the reverses are totally not the same. One card is from Quebec Photo Engravers, and the other from Lorenzo Audet Enr. That second card has this legend on the reverse: “Visiting Quebec City with Blue Band Guides Veterans Organisation”. Grades: 2

Code: 30900852
Price: $2.00
Montreal, The Mount Royal Hotel
Wikipedia tells us: “Les Cours Mont-Royal is an upscale shopping centre in Downtown Montreal, Quebec which was converted from the former Mount Royal Hotel.” There’s more history, of course, but this is what you need to know about the property. As for the card: mailed in 1924, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 30900853
Price: $4.00
Quebec, Le Chateau Frontenac sous la neige (Canada)
Old, unused and wintry card. Grade: 1

Code: 30900854
Price: $3.00
The Dolphin Hotel, Southampton (England)
Unused R.A.P. Co. Trust House Series card No. 97 (“The Seal of Artistic Excellence”), very old. To our bemusement, the hotel is still around, now called Mercure Southampton Centre Dolphin, with average online reviews but it must be doing something right to have stuck around for so long. Grade: 1

Code: 30900855
Price: $3.00
Acapulco, Condesa del Mar Hotel and Boulevard M. Aleman (Mexico)
Mailed in November 1975 by a couple who wanted to rub it in to their friends in chillier Wisconsin. Stamp and partial postmark are there, and some water staining along the lower reverse edge. Grade: 3

Code: 30900856
Price: $2.00
The Spur Motel, Flagstaff (Arizona, USA)
The Spur Motel is long gone. We looked up the address given in the caption and found that it’s now called Knights Inn Flagstaff, with mixed online reviews but still surviving. Unused card that qualifies as a “Route 66 postcard” because that too is in the caption. Grade: 1

Code: 30900857
Price: $2.00
La Jolla, La Valencia Hotel (California)
Old Curteich-Chicago linen card 1B-H2496, serrated edges. As a bonus, the hotel itself is still going strong, with excellent online reviews. We know where this hotel is … but we can’t quite afford it! Grade: 1

Code: 30900858
Price: $3.00
Hotel Huntington, Bungalow Court (Pasadena, California)
This is an old, unused, B&W hotel postcard 222 from Julius J. Hecht’s Platino Series. We think the property may be the forerunner of what is now The Langham Huntington, whose online reviews reinforce the axiom that the more expensive the hotel, the more its guests notice little things that the rest of us might not. Grade: 1

Code: 30900859
Price: $5.00
Riverside, Music Room, Mission Inn (California)
Happily, the hotel is still there, now called The Mission Inn Hotel and Spa, with generally positive online reviews. This B&W card was mailed in 1950, with stamp and clear Riverside postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 30900860
Price: $3.00
Great Wolf Lodge (USA)
Unused generic card representing all properties of “the world’s largest chain of indoor water parks”. Grade: 1

Code: 30900861
Price: $1.00
Edgewater Beach Hotel, Marine Dining Room (Chicago, Illinois)
Wikipedia tells us: “The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox. The first section was built in 1916, located between Sheridan Road and Lake Michigan at Berwyn Avenue. An adjacent tower building was added in 1924. The hotel closed in 1967, and was soon after demolished” after being used by Loyola University. This unused Curt Teich linen postcard 1A-H161 has serrated edges and a small stain in the right front margin. Grade: 3

Code: 30900862
Price: $2.00
Chicago, Michigan Avenue, north from Blackstone Hotel
The hotel? Still there … now the Renaissance Blackstone Hotel, in a 1910 beaux arts building. The card? No. 354 (R-50534) from Max Rigot Selling Co, unused, good condition. By the way, all these other buildings are also identified in the reverse caption. Grade: 1

Code: 30900863
Price: $2.00
Chicago, New Palmer House
Well-reinvented, it’s now “Palmer House A Hilton Hotel” and one of the most famous in North America if not the world. Actually there have been several Palmer Houses on the site, and as the one you see here went up between 1923 and 1925, it helps date the unused Gerson Bros. postcard #184. Grade: 1

Code: 30900864
Price: $3.00
Chicago, Palmer House, Next Door to Everything
Unused, slight aging. Grade: 1

Code: 30900865
Price: $3.00
Lake of the Clouds Hut with Mount Washington (New Hampshire, USA)
Unused Mike Roberts card C29213 (NC1390). Grade: 1

Code: 30900866
Price: $1.00
The Idle Hour Mansion, Monroe (Wisconsin, USA)
Now called The Ludlow Mansion, this property is still there as a B&B and gets generally good online reviews. As for the card, unused and aging, but clean. Grade: 1

Code: 30900867
Price: $1.00
London, War Office
We were not expecting this when we Googled for more information. Wikipedia says: “The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between the 17th century and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.The name “War Office” is also given to the former home of the department, the War Office building located at the junction of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall in central London. In August 2013 it was announced that the War Office building would be sold on the open market. The building was sold on 1 March 2016 for more than £350M, on a long 250 year lease, to the Hinduja Group and OHL Developments for conversion to a luxury hotel and residential apartments.” Unused B&W Valentine’s Series card 57167, a bit of smudging on the reverse (it’s an old card!) but otherwise clean. Grade: 2

Code: 30900868
Price: $2.00

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