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View from the Zane Gray (sic) Lodge
Two of these unused cards are available, each spelling Zane’s name two different ways: Gray (wrong) and Grey (right). Grades: 2
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Zane Grey’s Cabin
Unused. Grade: 1
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Lakeside, The Fisherman’s Wife
Two of these unused cards for a shop selling antiques and collectibles. Grades: 1
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Phoenix, Hotel Westward Ho
Mailed in 1968 with stamp and partial postmark that’s upside down and inverted. Grade: 2
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Sedona, Chapel of the Holy Cross
Mailed in 1967, aging, and with 4-cent stamp and postmark. Grade: 2
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Wickenburg, Rancho Grande Motor Hotel
Unused card S-27164L2 of this Best Western Motel. Grade: 1
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Flagstaff, Sentry Hiway House
“We Guard Your Comfort.” Wikipedia has a short but interesting entry about this chain, which went under sometime after 1970. Unused card. Grade: 2
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Arizona Beauties, Arizona Desert Grapefruit
Reproduction, mailed from Phoenix in 2012 with three stamps and readable postmark. Postal ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Glendale, University of Phoenix Stadium
Mailed in 2013 with four different stamps and heavy, illegible postmarks. Grade: 1
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Queen Creek Canyon, Million Dollar Queen Creek Tunnel
Unused Petley card 15056, though it has a July 1960 date written on the back. Grade: 4
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Flagstaff, San Francisco Peaks
Unused “local” card. These are called (and may well be) “Highest point in Arizona” at 12,570 feet. We might check Google … Grade: 1
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4 Corners – Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico
Intentional or not, we enjoy reporting oddities like this: compare with our entry 10103011. That card shows a Native American in the space. This one–unused Petley C14715A–has a cowboy instead. The card has significant water staining on the reverse, though the front is fine. Grade: 4
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Monument Valley, Three Sisters
The caption on this unused card correctly locates Monument Valley in “Utah-Arizona,” so we Googled … these sandstone monoliths are in Arizona. Sorry, Utah. Grade: 1
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Kaibab National Forest, White-tail Kaibab Squirrel
Unused card 122325 issued by Union Pacific Railroad to commemorate locations and routes its tours took. UPR logo on the reverse. Aging. Grade: 2
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Scottsdale, Rose Room of the Lulu Belle
With its “authentic Gay Nineties decor,” this restaurant was apparently really popular but Google entries are surprisingly coy about when it finally closed. Unused Petley card 9353. Grade: 1
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Scottsdale, The Lulu Belle
With its “spirit and decor of the Gay Nineties,” this restaurant was apparently really popular but Google entries are surprisingly coy about when it finally closed. Unused Petley card K338, aging somewhat. Grade: 2
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Antelope Canyon
A contemporary European idea of what Arizona should look like. The card was mailed from Germany (not Arizona!) in 2014, with stamp, postmark, and trilingual Priority label. Postal battering all around the edges. Grade: 4
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Arizona sunset
We think it’s sunset. Could be sunrise. Nice colours, anyway, on a card mailed in 2014 with three different stamps and faint postmark. Grade: 1
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Canyon of the Colorado from Grand View Point
You know a card is old when it refers to the Grand Canyon in this way, but if you needed further proof, the stamp and 1910 postmark are there. Grade: 2
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Painted Desert
A florid caption waxes lyrical on this unused Curteichcolor card 3C-K1341 (K-133). Grade: 2
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Grand Canyon National Park, The Colorado River at Foot of Bright Angel Trail
A Fred Harvey card, mailed with a Grand Canyon postmark and 1-cent stamp in 1937. The writers were enjoying themselves. Grade: 1
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Tucson, Mt. Lemmon
Unused Petley card 43902, with a number written into the stamp area. Grade: 3
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Grand Canyon Lodge, Grand Canyon National Park
Unused older card made for Utah Parks Company. Lower edge is perforated, so this came from a set. Grade: 1
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Glen Canyon Dam
Unused Seaich card 143523 (S-513). Grade: 1
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Painted Desert
Unused Curteichcolor card 3C-K541 (K-125) of ancient volcanic wastes, highlighting that all this could be seen from Route 66. So technically this is a Route 66 postcard! Grade: 1
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Painted Desert
Unused H.S. Crocker card RMF-75 near the Petrified Forest National Monument, highlighting that all this could be seen from Route 66. So technically this is a Route 66 postcard! But the card shows its age. Grade: 3
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Petrified Forest National Monument, Petrified Logs
Unused Curteichcolor card 2C-K109 (K-127). According to the caption, these logs are made of agate. According to Wikipedia, they’re 225 million years old. That might be. Give this card some time, and it will catch up. Grade: 2
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Mesa, The Superstition Range
On this unused Petley card 30011 (K414A), the two cacti shown are Prickly Pear and Stag Horn. We just wanted you to know that. Grade: 2
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Tucson, “A” Mountain
Unused Petley Natural Color Card K213, whose caption explains the connection with University of Arizona. That should, however, be easy to guess. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon, The famous Mule Train
Unused “local” card S-64109-3. Grade: 2
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Canyon De Chelly
Unused, slightly aging Petley card P32666 showing “Navajo hogans in this colorful canyon in a protected are near Standing Cow”. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon National Park, Granite Gorge from Bright Angel Trail
Unused Fred Harvey “Phostint” card 80716 (H-1504) with an impressively long caption. Grade: 1
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The Grand Canyon
Unused Fred Harvey “Phostint” card 79347 (H-1523) with a long caption. From a painting by Chris. Jorgenson. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon of Arizona from Hopi Point
Unused old Fred Harvey postcard H-1380, appropriately aged. Grade: 1
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Grand Canyon, “Hermit’s Rest”
Unused Fred Harvey card H-1082. Grade: 1
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Camp Verde, Montezuma Well
“…part of Montezuma Castle National Monument. The water … was diverted through ditches by pre-historic Indians to irrigate their fields.” (If they were pre-historic, how do we know?) Unused card S-47615-2. Grade: 2
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Flagstaff, The Spur Motel
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, mixed online reviews but still surviving. Unused card that qualifies as a “Route 66 postcard” because that too is in the caption. Grade: 1
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Meteorite Crater near Winslow
Unused Fred Harvey linen card 7A-H697. Grade: 1
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Glen Canyon Dam
Unused contemporary card. Grade: 1
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Superstition Mountain
Unused Petley card K340. Grade: 1