Restaurants – Global Postcard Sales

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Cormier’s, Paris Ontario (Canada)
Two of these are available. They date from mid 50s as they say “Visit Paris during the Centennial Celebration in 1956” on the reverse. One is heavily aged, has a travel agency stamp on reverse, and pencil marks on the front (Grade: 5, $3). The other has no pencil marks on the front but is also aged and has the same agency rubber stamp on reverse (Grade: 4, $4).

Code: 31300001
Price: $3.00
Floating restaurants (Hong Kong)
Mailed in 1996, this card of Jumbo in Aberdeen has stamp and legible postmark, but the mark missed the stamp. Some creasing and edge buffeting. Grade: 3

Code: 31300002
Price: $5.00
The Aladdin Room, Dunes Hotel, Las Vegas (USA)
This 5-1/2″ x 7″ unused card, in as-new condition, from a hotel that’s long gone, and advertising a meal at a price equally long gone (1960s), will be a gem for anyone who just wants to remember Las Vegas as it used to be. Grade: 1

Code: 31300003
Price: $24.00
Cleary’s Pub (Dublin)
If you’ve been waiting for a card from this special place, your wait is over! Mailed in 1981, this card has intact stamp and mostly legible postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 31300004
Price: $3.50
Mader’s (Milwaukee, USA)
Card from about 1954, unmailed, with a travel agent’s rubber stamp on reverse and a child’s pencilled notations. Google tells us the restaurant is still there, so it must be good. Grade: 4

Code: 31300005
Price: $3.50
Guey Sam’s (Chicago, USA)
Since 1901 and still there! Mike S. and Jim F., so you were there too–though later than 1901. This Curteich card 4B-H40 from the 1950s is unused except that it has a travel agent’s black rubber stamp on the reverse. It’s a linen finish, and has a crease on the upper right front corner. Grade: 4

Code: 31300006
Price: $2.50
Four Seas (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: 31300007
Price: $4.00
Four Seas (San Francisco)
Another unused 1950s or 1960s card from this historic restaurant. Grade: 1

Code: 31300008
Price: $4.00
Antoine’s (New Orleans, LA)
Long before Katrina, and most likely long after, is Antoine’s, a local landmark. This H.S. Crocker Mirro-Krome card GLR-425 dates from the 1960s, and though it’s aged a bit, it’s still very nice. Grade: 2

Code: 31300009
Price: $4.00
Golden Ox (Kansas City, MO)
Can’t speak for now, but back in the 1950s when this Curteichcolor 6C-K 972 card was issued, this was quite a place to go. Unmailed card but it has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on reverse.

Code: 31300010
Price: $3.00
Teibel’s (Dyer, IN)
Yes, it seems (thanks, Google) that this restaurant is still there. The vintage postcard however is from the late 1940s and though never mailed it has a travel agency’s rubber stamp on the somewhat dirty reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 31300011
Price: $4.00
Hapsburg Inn (Des Plaines, IL)
We weren’t certain from Google whether this restaurant was still there or not, but a thoughtful informant tell us that it’s gone. We ate there once … maybe didn’t tip enough? The card was mailed in 1955 with a 3-cent stamp and full postmark, but also has a travel agent’s rubber stamp and then another date stamp on the reverse. Postmark ink on the front, too. Grade: 4

Code: 31300012
Price: $3.50
Chevy Chase Country Club (Wheeling, IL)
Linen-finish, Curteich-Chicago, C.T. Art-Colortone card 2C-H872 from 1954. It’s unused but has the travel agency rubber stamp and a pencilled date on reverse. Minor creasing on lower right front. Grade: 4

Code: 31300013
Price: $2.00
Wish Bone Restaurant (Kansas City, MO)
How much fun it must have been to eat there. Hey, wait! We did! But we don’t remember the experience. Unmailed card dates from 1950s, and just as a side note it says the restaurant is “Home of the Famous Wishbone Salad Dressing.” It has a travel agent’s rubber stamp on the reverse, and is C.T. Art-Colortone 4C-H164. We throw that in just for the search engines. Grade: 4

Code: 31300014
Price: $4.00
Paper Inn (Port Edwards, WI)
The card was mailed in 1954. Stamp is gone and the card can only be a space-filler. Grade: 5

Code: 31300015
Price: $1.00
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: 31300016
Price: $8.50
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: 31300017
Price: $3.00
Carters (Orillia, Canada)
Who knows–this card might be just the one you need to complete your collection of restaurant interiors! It’s from the 1950s, unmailed but with a travel agency rubber stamp on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 31300019
Price: $2.00
Carters (Orillia, Canada)
Who knows–this card, or the one just before this, might be just the one you need to complete your collection of restaurant shots! It’s from the 1950s, unmailed but with a travel agency rubber stamp on the reverse. Grade: 4

Code: 31300020
Price: $2.00
Seafood Village (Penang, Malaysia)
Two cards are available, mailed six years apart. One from 1990 has a stamp and legible postmark (Grade: 2, $4). One from 1996 has much more writing, but also a commemorative stamp and large, mostly legible postmark (Grade: 2, $3.50).

Code: 31300023
Price: $4.00
Addis Ababa Restaurant (Ethiopia)
You have to travel quite a distance to eat here–unless you live in Addis Ababa. Unused card from the 1970s. Grade: 1

Code: 31300024
Price: $5.50
Seryna Mon Cher Ton Ton (Tokyo)
This unused card dates from the 1980s, has begun to stain/mottle on the front, but is still OK on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 31300025
Price: $2.50
Gemini Restaurant (Wheat Ridge, CO)
For the flower child that remains in you, this card was mailed internationally in 1987 with a 33-cent stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 31300026
Price: $3.00
Fat Siu Lau (Macau)
One of Macau’s oldest restaurants, and definitely one of our favourites, Fat Siu Lau may or may not survive Macau’s transition. We hope so, as it’s far from the casinos. Unused card, and no western lettering at all. Grade: 1

Code: 31300027
Price: $8.50
Adam’s Apple (Macau)
One of Macau’s less well-known eateries. Unused card, excellent on the front but foxing significantly on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 31300028
Price: $7.50
Paddock, Kuala Lumpur Hilton Hotel
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: 31300029
Price: $4.00
Peking Restaurant (Washington, DC)
Unused Dexter Press card 22548-B, likely from the 50s or 60s, of this obviously Chinese restaurant offering “Finest American Cuisine.” To be fair, they also sold Chinese food. Grade: 3

Code: 31300030
Price: $4.00
Mader’s German Restaurant (Milwaukee)
Cute card issued by the restaurant and picked up in 1954–the date is pencilled in on the reverse, along with a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Unused otherwise. Well, we didn’t know what kalbshaxen was, either. Grade: 4

Code: 31300031
Price: $4.50
Mader’s German Restaurant (Milwaukee, WI)
Card was issued by the restaurant and collected in 1954, as the date and an agent’s rubber stamp are on the reverse. The front of the card is in great shape and if you have fond memories of this restaurant, this card is right up your alley. Grade: 4

Code: 31300032
Price: $4.50
Eddys’ (Kansas City, MO)
Two of these cards from the 50s are available. Both are unmailed and have the travel agency rubber stamp on reverse. One (Grade 4, $3) has no other marks. One (Grade 5, $1.50) has staining along the reverse edge.

Code: 31300033
Price: $3.00
Stouffer’s (Chicago)
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 the travel agency large rubber stamp, and a significant stain too. None of these affect the front, which is fine. Grade: 4

Code: 31300034
Price: $1.50
Johnny Rockets (Los Angeles)
We know, you had a Magic Moment here once, and now you gotta have the card as a memory. Well why not?? It’s an outsized (5″ x 7-1/4″) card, mailed internationally in 1987 from Denver with a 44-cent stamp and full postmark. Quite a bit of postal battering but no tears. Grade: 3

Code: 31300035
Price: $3.00
Jumbo Floating Restaurant (Hong Kong)
Pretty much everything you could want in a used, contemporary card. It’s 5″ x 7″, mailed in 1997 with six stamps and mostly legible postmark. It has a blue airmail sticker affixed. Minor edge battering, nothing significant. A well-travelled card. Grade: 2

Code: 31300036
Price: $9.50
Chili Club (Hong Kong)
Eight unused, new (2008) cards are available from what we think is Hong Kong’s best Thai restaurant–and they don’t pay us to say this, either. Grade: 1

Code: 31300037
Price: $3.00
Universal Restaurant (Singapore), Lopez II art
Paintings from visual artist Rajinder Singh’s FACES collection, presented by The Universal, Wine Bar and Restaurant. The scan cuts the restaurant’s URL off the bottom front, but it’s there. Not sure if the restaurant still is, or not. Unused card from 2007. Grade: 1

Code: 31300038
Price: $2.00
Muddy Murphy’s Irish Pub (Singapore)
Unused 2006 from this Singapore pub. Grade: 1

Code: 31300039
Price: $2.00
Garret Restaurant and Piano Bar (Warsaw)
Unused card from about 2001. Grade: 1

Code: 31300040
Price: $3.00
Bubba Gump Restaurant (Hong Kong)
This one needs explanation. The whole item is 3-1/2″ x 7-1/2″. It’s a postcard on the left with perforated coupons on the right, for special offers. Issued in 2008, the card was given to customers of this restaurant on Hong Kong’s Victoria Peak. Sorry, the coupons have expired! Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 31300041
Price: $4.00
Stan’s Cafe (Grafton, ND)
Stan’s Cafe closed years ago. Greyhound, and this card, live on. Unmailed card has the date “Oct. 2, 1957” inked in on the back, together with a travel agent’s rubber stamp. Grade: 4

Code: 31300042
Price: $4.00
Queen’s Palace (Hong Kong)
Circular ad mailed through Hongkong Post’s bulk mail service (postage pre-printed on the reverse) for this 2008 special offer. They wanted you out before the lunch rush. We were not to be hurried. Grade: 1

Code: 31300043
Price: $1.00

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