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Oakland, Baptist Church
Mailed in 1923 with stamp and clear postmark, the card has a small abrasion on the left edge. Grade: 3

Code: 10105823
Price: $2.00
Marin County, Old Mill at Mill Valley
Very long ago, someone wrote extensive prose about “What is a kiss?” on the back of this card, postally unused. Grade: 4

Code: 10105824
Price: $0.50
Los Angeles, Olvera Street
Unused, slightly aging Plastichrome card P12352. Grade: 2

Code: 10105825
Price: $0.50
Buena Park, Knott’s Berry Farm, Ghost Town, The Little Red School House
Unused postcard KBF-12 from the park itself. Aging but clean. Grade: 1

Code: 10105826
Price: $2.00
Greetings from The Date Empire
Unused “local” card 54964-2 (FS-197) explaining some things about the Coachella Valley and Palm Springs. Allow us a small digression. Way back in the Dark Ages, on rare trips through the Southern California desert, we would see roadside stands selling date shakes. This was soooooooo exotic and in that heat they were soooooooo good. Maybe those stands or their successors are still there, but we aren’t. A chicken feet milkshake just isn’t the same. Grade: 1

Code: 10105827
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Alcatraz
The cost of this messy card is less than half the value of the (uncancelled) Global Forever stamp used to mail it. We do not advocate recycling this way. We are just describing the card. Grade: 5

Code: 10105828
Price: $0.50
Escondido, Lawrence Welk Country Club Village
The property is still there, seemingly the focus of time-share exchanges, and with positive online reviews. To Americans of a certain age, Welk was polarising: when he came on TV, you either embraced it, or tried to run. Unused card with major abrasions on the front. Grade: 5

Code: 10105829
Price: $0.30
Los Angeles, Brown Derby Restaurant
How is this possible: we ate there once. So exotic. So “gone” now. Unused Plastichrome card P77830, aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10105830
Price: $2.00
Los Angeles, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre
Unused Plastichrome P76755 showing Footprints of the Stars. Grade: 1

Code: 10105831
Price: $2.00
Kings Canyon National Park, General Robert E. Lee Tree
Unused Mike Roberts card C6967. Grade: 1

Code: 10105832
Price: $1.00
I (heart) San Diego
Unused, and two are available. Grades: 1

Code: 10105833
Price: $1.00
California Republic – state flag
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10105834
Price: $1.00
San Diego, USS Midway Museum
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10105835
Price: $1.00
San Diego, Greetings from Pacific Beach
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10105836
Price: $1.00
San Diego, Greetings – Convention Center, baseball stadium
Caption on this unused card calls it the “new baseball stadium” so if you’re keen to know when the photo was taken, it should be easy to find out. Grade: 1

Code: 10105837
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Chinatown (folio)
Greetings from San Francisco Chinatown, in this fold-out folio of pictures from a Stanley A. Piltz “Pictorial Wonderland” item D-4291, unused. Technically these are not postcards because the photos are on both sides of the paper, and these include (among others) The Soothsayer, Picturesque Costumes, Chinese Telephone Exchange, Bulletin of Latest News, Fortune Teller, Tin How Temple Interior, and a “Golden Dragon” parade of good luck. This would be the iconic postcard-style representation of one of the world’s most famous Chinatowns. As a bonus, the inside cover has a long story about the area and its attractions. Grade: 1

Code: 10105838
Price: $39.00
Los Angeles, Chinatown
Being where we are (Hong Kong), we have a special affection for Chinatown postcards. Here’s a Mike Roberts unused version, C1113, of California’s “other” Chinatown. Grade: 1

Code: 10105839
Price: $3.00
Auburn, multiple views
Mailed in 2017 with a round “Global Forever” stamp and overlapping postmarks. Heavy USPS barcoding on bottom reverse. Grade: 2

Code: 10105840
Price: $1.00
Palm Desert, Eisenhower Medical Center
Unused H.S. Crocker Mirro-Krome card CFS-1405-C, serrated edges. Did you know the hospital was built on land donated by Bob Hope? Neither did we. Grade: 1

Code: 10105841
Price: $1.00
Georgetown, multiple views
As the writer observed, there are many Georgetowns. Here’s another, on a card mailed in 2017 with a round “Global Forever” stamp but no postmarking other than faint orange USPS bardoding and some ink transfer. Grade: 3

Code: 10105842
Price: $1.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, It’s a Small World
Topiary in Fantasyland on this official card mailed in 1981 with 12-cent stamp and faint postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10105843
Price: $2.00
Pasadena, The Rose Bowl
The entire bottom yellow strip has been cut off this mailed card, from 1951. Grade: 5

Code: 10105844
Price: $0.50
San Francisco, Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 43 Harbor Tours
Unused Dexter Press card 38397-B, no extra writing but heavily aged and only good as space filler. Grade: 5

Code: 10105845
Price: $0.50
San Francisco at Night
Unused “The Gray Line” postcard, unnumbered, and also showing the Bay Bridge. Grade: 2

Code: 10105846
Price: $1.00
Air View of San Francisco
Unused Selithco postcard 1620, typical of the type of card nice to have as a reference for visual changes over time. This one–showing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Embarcadero, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz–somehow makes San Francisco look like some vague port city somewhere. Grade: 1

Code: 10105847
Price: $1.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, The Upjohn Pharmacy
An Upjohn card, sourced at Disneyland, and mailed in 1968 with a four-cent stamp and readable postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10105848
Price: $2.00
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
This unused card from the Save-the-Redwoods League shows the Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Metcalf Grove. Slight aging. Grade: 2

Code: 10105849
Price: $0.50
Los Angeles, New Chinatown
An incredibly florid caption for this snapshot along Gin Ling Way, on this unused Western Publishing card 3C-K350. Grade: 1

Code: 10105850
Price: $2.00
Los Angeles, Chinatown, night scene
We’re going to ask you (and then answer) a trick question about this unused Mike Roberts card C22687: considering that it’s Chinatown, what is the unusual thing about the photo? Our answer: no readable Chinese characters. Grade: 1

Code: 10105852
Price: $2.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, House of the Future
Sponsored by Monsanto, this was a featured attraction from 1957-1967. How we wish we could zip back in time and compare it with how things are now. Unused official card E-2 from Tomorrowland. Grade: 1

Code: 10105853
Price: $3.00
San Diego
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10105854
Price: $1.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, Sleeping Beauty’s Castle and Walt Disney
Official, unused card 0100-10470. Minor crease diagonally through lower left corner. Grade: 2

Code: 10105855
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, Dupont Street, Chinatown
Before it was Grant Avenue, it was Dupont Street. The card has a few other things going for it: an odd message (never saw that word before), and overlapping postmarks from 1906 with sending and receiving stations. It took three days to get from SF to Minneapolis. Also keep in mind, the earthquake was in April and this card was mailed in late January. Appropriate aging. Grade: 1

Code: 10105856
Price: $4.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, Trapped Safari
Unused, official Disney postcard 1-289. Grade: 1

Code: 10105857
Price: $4.00
Greetings from California
Unused Western Publishing & Novelty Co. card J-64. Better hurry if you want to experience the remaining “Miracle of the California Orange Groves”. Grade: 1

Code: 10105858
Price: $2.00
Murphys, Mercer Caverns
Unused Mike Roberts card whose caption tells you more than we could: “Soda straw stalactites located in the Cathedral Room along with the ‘Slab of Bacon'”. Knowing that stalagmites go up and stalactites go down, we think this card is pointing in the right direction. Left serrated edge. Grade: 1

Code: 10105859
Price: $0.50
Anaheim, Disneyland aerial view
Unattributed, unused, mildly aging view of the park. Grade: 1

Code: 10105860
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Chinatown and Cable Car (3D)
This unused 3D (lenticular printing, no motion effect) Tri-D card SFT-4 has a number inked into the postage area. Grade: 3

Code: 10105861
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, multiple views
Mailed in 1987 with 33-cent stamp and full postmark. By the way, for those of you who can read Chinese, you might not be too late for the Lee clan’s functions. Grade: 1

Code: 10105862
Price: $1.00
San Diego Zoo, Orchids
Mailed in 1996, with 20-cent stamp and San Diego postmark and a bit of a sad message. By the way, the orchids shown are Pansy Orchid (Miltonia – Red Gable) and Paphiopedilum insigne sandarae. Grade: 2, $1.00

Code: 10105864
Price: $1.00

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