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Los Angeles 1984 Olympics, Equestrian Events
Among Olympics postcards, those from the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 are some of the most diverse. Here’s an unused, official card 40PZ 0021 of the equestrian events. Just a minor bit of handling. Grade: 1

Code: 10105866
Price: $4.00
Anaheim Disneyland, Splash Mountain
Unused, official card with Brer Bear, Brer Fox, and even Brer Rabbit as the cast of characters. Grade: 1

Code: 10105867
Price: $3.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, Matterhorn at Night
Stamped (two of them, one for the 1984 Olympics) and written for mailing, but no postmark. Therefore, Grade: 4

Code: 10105868
Price: $3.00
Needles, Santa Fe Bridge
Old linen Fred Harvey card 8A-H1698 showing the “cantilever bridge … the second largest in America” at 660 feet”. Short notation on the reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10105869
Price: $2.00
Long Beach, Spruce Goose
The interesting story of this wooden aircraft, which flew only once, is readily searchable online. The unused card — B14081, an official one — is gently aging. The airplane itself has moved to Oregon since then. Grade: 2

Code: 10105870
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Cable Car
Just imagine living in that house. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105871
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge
Somewhere out there, someone (you?) collects different views of the Golden Gate Bridge. There are many, including this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105872
Price: $0.50
Anaheim Disneyland, Bobsled
Unused, older, official Disneyland Tomorrowland card E-11 showing this “simulated Matterhorn Bobsled”. We rode this once, long ago, and recall getting wet. Grade: 1

Code: 10105873
Price: $4.00
San Francisco, Alcatraz Island inmate
Unused card from Golden Gate National Parks Association. Grade: 1

Code: 10105874
Price: $1.00
Anaheim, Disneyland House of Haunts
More accurately described in the caption of this unused 1990s (?) Disney postcard as “The Haunted Mansion in New Orleans Square”. Grade: 1

Code: 10105875
Price: $2.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, Mad Tea Party
An official Fantasyland postcard, mailed in 1960 with 4-cent stamp and two postmarks. Some things to note: the postmarks come from Knott’s Berry Farm, a nearby attraction (and we personally can remember when both were small enough that it was possible to visit them in the same day); the caption calls this “Mad Tea Party” then goes on to expand to “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party”; and two different persons wrote the message. Whatever, it was a fun ride at a pleasant time. Grade: 1

Code: 10105876
Price: $4.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, Space Mountain Spectacular
Unused, official card 0100-11207. Grade: 1

Code: 10105877
Price: $2.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, The Happiest Place
Unused, official card, barcoded 00100 21880. Grade: 1

Code: 10105878
Price: $3.00
San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island
Unmailed Edward H. Mitchell card 154, quite old, divided back, with penciled notes in the message area about what the visitor might have seen or heard about. Terrific old Alcatraz postcard. Grade: 3

Code: 10105879
Price: $4.00
Arcadia, Santa Anita Park
Unused older card (as you can see from the lack of buildings), bringing back memories of running bets there — sometimes placing them, sometimes not. We’re still here. Grade: 1

Code: 10105880
Price: $2.00
Anaheim Disneyland, Monsanto Chemical Company Exhibit
Unused card from Tomorrowland, showing The Chemitron — “symbolizing for visitors the amazing processes of chemistry … that transforms eight basic materials found in nature into thousands of chemicals and plastics”. Grammar notwithstanding, nature must now use thousands of years to transform those items back into eight basic materials. Grade: 1

Code: 10105881
Price: $2.00
Point Loma, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Unused Curteichcolor card 8CK2194 whose caption might need rewriting now. Grade: 1

Code: 10105882
Price: $1.00
West Branch Bridge over Feather River
Lots of information about the bridge and the location, near Oroville Dam, packed into a tiny caption on this unused “local” card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105883
Price: $3.00
San Gabriel Mission
Unused, old, Kashower Co. card 1092, with a caption struggling to find anything new to say. Grade: 1

Code: 10105884
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, Fisherman’s Wharf
Unused H.S. Crocker card 5:SF-8, with perforated left edge. They want you to visit! Grade: 1

Code: 10105885
Price: $3.00
Brookdale, Brookdale Lodge – Wedding Chapel
This card was mailed in either 1956 or 1958 — can’t quite make out the postmark — but the stamp is there, the message is long and personal, and the card is in good condition. We’re not so sure about the chapel itself, though, as Google wasn’t much help. What with all those fires in California … Grade: 1

Code: 10105886
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, de Young Museum
Older card with nearly-as-old tape visible on both the front and the back. Unused otherwise. Grade: 5

Code: 10105887
Price: $0.50
Temecula, Bible Land
The caption on the back of this unused, aging Dexter Press card 40118-B goes into great detail about this statue of Jesus in Gethsemane and how similar statues were made, but we’ll let (this condensed version from) Wikipedia continue the story for you: “Bible Land was a free roadside attraction, originally located in Temecula, and later moved to Yucaipa, California. Built during the late 1960s by sand sculptor Ted Conibear, the attraction featured various scenes including a life-sized rendition of the Last Supper. Conibear maintained the attraction until his death in 1994. His son, Don, attempted to keep the landmark intact but the sculptures had been badly eroded by wind and insects, and Conibear felt that any type of restoration effort would in-authenticate the work of his father. Conibear also looked for someone to maintain the sculptures and investors to keep the site running but did not find either. It was believed that Ted had told Don to destroy the sculptures so they would not fall victim to vandalism, but the son reportedly debunked that rumor. The former site, a short distance east of the Live Oak Canyon Road exit along the northern shoulder of Interstate 10, remains empty and undeveloped.” The card, however, survives. Grade: 2

Code: 10105888
Price: $3.00
Los Angeles, Exposition Park, Rose Garden
We walked through here many times on the way from campus to stadium, but we never stopped to … umm … smell the roses. We wish we had, because roses in Asia have no aroma at all. Unused older Western Publishing card L-144, gently aging. Grade: 1

Code: 10105889
Price: $3.00
Laguna Beach, view from Heisler Park
Unused Curteichcolor card 8C-K2 (576), whose front is good but there’s a stain on the lower left reverse corner. Grade: 3

Code: 10105890
Price: $3.00
San Gabriel, The Famous Old Grape Vine
The sign in the photo might be hard to read, but it says “Oldest and largest grapevine in California, planted in 1775, covers over 10,000 sq. feet”. So that was our challenge: true or not? Assuming the vine mentioned in Facebook is the same one, we found this: “The Old Mother Grapevine of San Gabriel Mission was planted in 1861, making her now 148 years old (NOTE: so this is an old entry), and is one of the most beloved plants in California. She’s a Mission grape … A few years back, a team of Spanish researchers did some DNA analysis on the Mission grapes…” Now whether the dates are right or not, another online source says: “Žametovka or modra kavčina (Bleu de Cologne), confirmed at 400 years of age, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest vine in the world still producing fruit. The old vine was planted in Maribor at the end of the Middle Ages during the Turkish invasions…” OK, California: go for it! Very old, unused postcard with tape remnant on reverse. Grade: 3

Code: 10105891
Price: $3.00
Los Angeles, Pershing Square Banana Palms and Pepper Trees
Old unused card, fine on the front (and the caption is hard to see, but it’s at the bottom), with a tape remnant on the back. Grade: 3

Code: 10105892
Price: $3.00
Death Valley, Artists Palette
One of the more notable visitor attractions in this national park, Artists Palette is unlikely to change its features anytime soon. But this is an older, unused, somewhat aging postcard where the caption writer seemed to want to keep going until he ran out of words. Grade: 1

Code: 10105893
Price: $2.00
Death Valley, Zabriskie Point
Unused Mike Roberts card C11486. Grade: 1

Code: 10105894
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Fisherman’s Wharf ML-8
Unused Modern Lithographers card ML-8 (to distinguish this one from the others), showing the Wharf several years ago. Grade: 1

Code: 10105895
Price: $3.00
San Francisco, Union Square and St. Francis Hotel
Unused old Modern Lithographers card ML-4, showing a busy area at a quiet time before there was Photoshop to remove all the people. Grade: 1

Code: 10105896
Price: $6.00
Riverside, Oranges and Snow
Not really an ad card, but acting as one for the Tanner Gray Line Tour No. 3. Whether you were on the tour or not, it’s true what you hear about the Los Angeles area: it’s possible to be in deep snow and sunning on a beach within a short time and distance from each other. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 10105897
Price: $3.00
Anaheim Disneyland, Fantasyland
Unused official card 0010021810 showing Pinocchio’s village, prancing horses, Wonderland, and flying elephants. (Sounds just like our own home.) Grade: 1

Code: 10105898
Price: $4.00
San Francisco, Chinatown, Good Luck
Look closely at the picture and you’ll guess why this old postcard is so politically incorrect. Then read the caption on the back and you’ll know for certain. Mervyn D. Silbersten, the artist-photographer, was right on it. By the way, the Chinese characters on the right say “Happy (Lunar) New Year”. Unused card in terrific condition. Grade: 1

Code: 10105899
Price: $7.00
San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge
Unused Dexter Press card 33195-C (D-206) with Alcatraz Island in there as a bonus. Grade: 2

Code: 10105900
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor
In Lincoln Park, “San Francisco’s largest art museum” (now with competition from others) opened in 1924. Unused Selithco card 1651. Grade: 1

Code: 10105901
Price: $2.00
Santa Barbara, Mission Santa Barbara
Unused card showing “Queen of the Missions,” with a poignant caption. Grade: 1

Code: 10105902
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Ocean Beach
More-or-less aerial view from the (old) Cliff House location, on an unused Mike Roberts card C491. Part of Golden Gate Park is in the picture too. Grade: 1

Code: 10105903
Price: $4.00
Sequoia National Park, The Sentinels (sic)
The poorly written caption on this unused Mike Roberts card C23925 says, in its entirety, “The Sentinels, along the General’s Highway, is typical of the largest and oldest trees to be found in the park.” Leaving aside ambiguity about singular and plural, there is one “The Sentinel” near the park’s museum, and then there are “sentinels,” a type of tree more numerous in the area. In any event, the card is OK. Grade: 1

Code: 10105904
Price: $3.00
Stanford University, East Gate
Unused Mike Roberts card C2961 from 50+ years ago. Hoover Library is in the background. Grade: 1

Code: 10105905
Price: $2.00

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