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Yosemite National Park, Vernal Fall
Unused Curteichcolor card 9C-K2785, showing the Merced River’s 317′ drop. Grade: 1

Code: 10105906
Price: $1.00
Yosemite National Park, Half Dome
Unused Curteichcolor card 2DK-296 (370), whose caption — then — said it rises 4,892′ above the valley floor, while Wikipedia — now — says it rises “more than 4,737′”. So, technically, both figures could be true. (Think about it!) Grade: 1

Code: 10105907
Price: $1.00
Death Valley National Monument, sand dunes
Unused Plastichrome card P65973 with a perforated lower edge. Grade: 1

Code: 10105908
Price: $1.00
Los Angeles, Hollenbeck Park
Quite an old card, heavily aged, not postally used but with a sweet message on the back. Grade: 4

Code: 10105909
Price: $4.00
Almond Blossoms and Old Baldy
In 1925, Leona wrote a long message to her sister on the back of this card — but either she mailed it in an envelope or she brought it back with her. Grade: 4

Code: 10105910
Price: $3.00
San Francisco at Night
Unused H.S. Crocker older Mirro-Krome card 5:SF-67 with a view from Twin Peaks and including the Bay Bridge. Grade: 1

Code: 10105911
Price: $4.00
San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge
Artistic, unused card from about 1969. Grade: 1

Code: 10105912
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Lombard Street
Artistic, unused card from about 1970. Grade: 1

Code: 10105913
Price: $1.00
Mill Valley, Gateway to Muir Woods National Monument
Unused H.S. Crocker Mirro-Krome card RW-5-1, the entrance to a redwood grove. Grade: 1

Code: 10105914
Price: $2.00
Valley Springs, Rancho Calaveras
An advertising card, professionally prepared and mailed (as this one was) with Bulk Rate pre-printed postage. The caption — being advertising, after all — is extensive and persuasive. We were curious, and checked online, to find it still exists as a “census-designated place”, whatever that means, and one source wrote: “When it was created in the 1960s, Rancho Calaveras was the largest residential subdivision in the state of California.” For the postcard, Grade: 3

Code: 10105915
Price: $1.00
Coloma, James W. Marshall Monument
Old, unused, C.T. Art-Colortone card 7B-H428 (49-14) of this imposing statue. And you are asking: who was James W. Marshall? The “Discoverer of Gold”! There’s more to the story, of course. Grade: 1

Code: 10105916
Price: $2.00
Yosemite Valley
Unmailed Mike Roberts postcard C5, with a November 1968 date written along the reverse bottom edge. Grade: 3

Code: 10105917
Price: $1.00
Glendale, Forest Law (sic) Memorial Park, Hall of the Crucifixion
It should be Forest Lawn, we know, but the caption missed one letter. Unused card SC6577 (#1018) published by Forest Lawn itself. Grade: 1

Code: 10105918
Price: $1.00
La Canada, Descanso Gardens
Unused card, foxed mottling on the reverse and probably not destined to be the star of your collection. Grade: 4

Code: 10105919
Price: $0.50
San Gabriel Mission, The Steps
Unused, old, Kashower card 1073. It was either produced in this vivid orange hue or it has become this way with age. Grade: 3

Code: 10105920
Price: $2.00
Murphys, Mercer Caverns, Simon’s Thumb
Unused Mike Roberts card C18457 of “a beautiful stalagmite rising from a projecting white slab of limestone”. Perforated upper edge indicates the card had been part of a set. Flip this card around and it could easily have been labelled as a different part of Simon. Grade: 1

Code: 10105921
Price: $2.00
Truckee River, South of Tahoe City
In an area recently beset by natural disasters, this area is gorgeous when nothing affects it. Frashers card 25891, aging noticeably on the back but otherwise clean. Grade: 2

Code: 10105922
Price: $2.00
Glendale, Wee Kirk of the Heather
Now part of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, and dedicated in 1929, this church (often called Wee Kirk o’ the Heather) was inspired by another in Scotland. The unused card, aging and faded, describes “modern brides married here,” while we just wonder why someone wants to get married in a cemetery. Grade: 1

Code: 10105923
Price: $2.00
Coronado, Hotel del Coronado
Unused old postcard of this “monarch of Western resort hotels”. The caption refers to “some three-quarters of a century”, and the hotel opened in 1888, so our math dates the postcard at around 1963. (And this is why we went to school.) Grade: 1

Code: 10105924
Price: $2.00
Anaheim, Disneyland, A World on the Move
Unused card with “Sleek Monorail Trains, individual PeopleMover systems, and Skyway Gondolas” helping Tomorrowland go through its daily motions. Grade: 1

Code: 10105925
Price: $3.00
Golden Gate Bridge
A conventional card, mailed in 1982 with stamp and airmail sticker and a thumbtack hole near the top. (How many postcards wound up on bulletin boards?) Grade: 4

Code: 10105926T
Price: $0.50
Los Angeles Bicentennial 1781 – 1981
Removing most doubt about the age of the card, which was mailed in 1981, has a 28-cent stamp, most of the postmark, and a thumbtack hole near the top. Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre is the featured photo. Grade: 4

Code: 10105927T
Price: $0.50
Death Valley, Twenty Mile Mule Team
As you might see, this mailed card is in terrible condition and even the 21-cent stamp is torn, plus there’s a thumbtack hole at the top. So why list it? Because we never know. Grade: 5

Code: 10105928T
Price: $0.20
San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, Japanese Tea Garden
Mailed in 1985 with a 33-cent stamp, airmail sticker, and postmark over those. There’s a very small tear along the upper middle edge. Grade: 3

Code: 10105929T
Price: $0.30
Majestic Redwoods
There is a not-so-hidden agenda to this unused 5″ x 7″ card, published by NRDC in New York in an attempt to shame the owner of the land where many of these redwoods grow. Grade: 1

Code: 10105931
Price: $4.00
Lone Pine, Alabama Hills and High Sierra Mountains
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 10105932
Price: $1.00
Glacier Point from the Ahwahnee Bridge
In Yosemite National Park, and if you were standing there you could get a good view of the Firefall — if there is one. Unused H.S. Crocker card BSY-32. Grade: 1

Code: 10105933
Price: $2.00
Yosemite National Park, Grizzly Giant
Condensed from Wikipedia, “The Grizzly Giant is a giant sequoia in Mariposa Grove; in 1990 Wendell Flint calculated its volume at 34,005 cubic feet (962.9 m³), making it the 26th-largest living giant sequoia. Grizzly Giant is the oldest sequoia in Mariposa Grove (and) at one time was considered the oldest and largest tree in the world, aged between 2,000 and 3,000 years. In 2019, refined scientific dating methods resulted in a new age estimate for the Grizzly Giant: 2,995 years old (plus or minus 250 years).On July 16, 2022, the Washburn Fire threatened Grizzly Giant and other trees (but) the National Park Service used sprinklers to protect it.” This old, unused postcard’s caption makes an interesting counterpoint to that description. Grade: 1

Code: 10105934
Price: $2.00
Mt. Dana and Tiago Lake
An older, unused, typical Mountain Postcard if there ever was one — except that in its effort to set itself apart from all the others, the caption says that Tiago Lake is “the highest lake in the Pacific states reached by a paved highway”. Damned by faint praise! (You need to know that expression.) Grade: 1

Code: 10105935
Price: $1.00
Palm Springs & Desert Resorts, PGA West
Actually in La Quinta, though the unused card doesn’t say so, this is a famous golf course. Grade: 1

Code: 10105936
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Lovely Panorama
Mailed in 1985 — two stamps, airmail sticker, full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10105937T
Price: $2.00
San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge
Mailed in 1985, with 22-cent stamp and partial postmark, this Plastichrome card has serrated edges. Grade: 1

Code: 10105938T
Price: $1.00
Redwood Empire
The card actually puts its focus on the deer standing in this national park. Card was mailed in 1986, with 33-cent stamp, indistinct postmark, and airmail/address stickers. Grade: 3

Code: 10105939T
Price: $1.00
Multiple views
All five panels are identified in the caption, including Yosemite Falls and others you might recognise. Mailed in 1989, with 36-cent stamp, postmark, airmail sticker, and a note on when the card arrived. Grade: 3

Code: 10105940T
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Crookedest Street
Often informally called “The Crookedest Street in the World”, as it is in this mailed card’s caption, the real name is Lombard Street — and we definitely would not want to live on it. Card from 1987 has 33-cent stamp, postmark, airmail sticker, and address label. Grade: 3

Code: 10105941T
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Cable Car
The cable car on Hyde Street and on this card with serrated edges mailed in 1987 with 33-cent stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 10105942T
Price: $1.00
Souverain Cellars
A winery in northern California, still there and evolving (according to Google), but this mailed card probably didn’t come from them since it has no contact details. Mailed in 1987, with stamp and clear postmark and airmail/address labels. Grade: 3

Code: 10105943T
Price: $1.00
San Francisco, Hyatt Regency Hotel
The 4-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ card was mailed in 1979 with a 31-cent stamp and postmark; its caption calls the property “The West’s newest, most exciting hotel” so you can pin down the date fairly accurately. Grade: 1

Code: 10105944T
Price: $3.00
Los Angeles, New Chinatown
This may have been a “quaint and fascinating community” (as the caption says) once upon a time, but less so now. The linen card was mailed in 1946 with stamp and postmark, and someone in the post office kindly provided the correct address. Grade: 2

Code: 10105945
Price: $4.00
Long Beach Sanitarium
Mildly edited from a Loyola Marymount University website, “Sanitariums became popular in the late 19th century as hospitals to treat Tuberculosis … The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan was operated by John Harvey Kellogg from 1876-1942, and promoted good health and fitness through diet, exercise, correct posture, fresh air, and proper rest. Southern California’s mild climate made the area a particularly appealing destination for individuals suffering from respiratory ailments. The Long Beach Sanitarium advertised such courses of treatment as the milk diet and rest cure, and had electric and mechanical Swedish departments.” The unused old postcard’s caption says nearly as much about this facility, and encourages you to “Mail this Souvenir to Your Friends.” Indeed. Grade: 1

Code: 10105946
Price: $5.00

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