Holiday Inn postcard thread. Here's the very first location. Holiday Inn Hotel Courts On U.S. 70-79-64 At Memphis, TN 120 Rooms & Baths - 100% Air-Conditioned Restaurant in Connection This postcard was sent Dec. 6, 1952 - three months after it opened.

I am fascinated by restaurants that used to be inside old Holiday Inns. Let's showcase some of them: The Red Slipper Lounge Serving your favorite beverage in a setting of the GAY NINETIES ENTERTAINMENT NIGHTLY SING AROUND THE PIANO BAR Holiday Inn 2700 N. Glenstone Springfield, Mo.

Bluelight.com Totally Free Internet Service New and Improved V 2.0 from KMart (1999).

Back in around 2017 I bought a series of photos in a binder labeled "Displays" and they were right in my wheelhouse.

One of my earliest found photo collections, both in when I purchased them and the date, are the Andrew Love photos taken between 1944-1947 by a high school photographer at North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts. I first scanned and posted these back in 2009.

Another minor collection within my bigger collection is the more than 100 Burkhart billboard photos I found years ago. The photos were taken in the mid 1980s in Indiana.

Went through my collection of old roller skate skate labels and scanned/rescanned them all. I did not realize that I had amassed 182 different ones. The original purpose of these things was to affix them to your roller skate case and showcase all the different places you skated.

Post something random for the collective amusement.

Yours truly, 1993. Rocking a surf shirt even though I lived in Southern Idaho and had never been never a surfboard in my life. What a cool dude.

Family photo, 1983 - Nampa, Idaho My dad is holding me and my mom is holding my brother.

My Aunt Pat, whom I absolutely adore, is currently in the hospital and probably won't make it out. She has meant the world to me. We have shared so many laughs and so many tears together. She's always been a champion for me. I love her dearly.

Melrose Place Prepaid Phone Card ($10) worth 20 minutes of domestic phone calls

I haven't shared enough of my phone cards from the late 90s: 20 Minutes free long distance from Ore-Ida (expires 10/19/1999)

Today is the 17th (!) anniversary of the first time I started posting my collection online.

Last week I bought more than a dozen late '90s/early 00s software programs, all of them in their original boxes. Many of them unopened. Here's the first one I bought for 10 cents ClickArt 125,000 deluxe image pak from 1999 (unopened) with a CompUSA sticker.

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I have taken a break from scanning matchcovers to get back to one of my smaller collections - playing card (swap card) art. I recently purchased about 150 new cards and now I currently have over 1500 scanned. Here of some of the new ones:

Sometimes I feel like some idiot Nero scanning while modern Rome burns, but then I remember that I can't control the horrors, but I can scan a 2001 AOL 7.0 disc that was created exclusively for JCPenney associates.

It's not just matchcovers I have been scanning. I am now at 1424 swap cards (playing card art).

Closing in on 25,000 scanned and cataloged.

I have no idea when or where I bought this (and 3 other) McDonald's Happy Meal boxes. Can somebody tell me the year? It's definitely from the '80s, I just can't find the date.

Another crazy detail is that I scanned and cataloged over 29,000 postcards from my collection before I started this project

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs (hard mode no SW, ST, or LOTR)

I might be the only idiot to ever attempt to scan and catalog their entire 90,000+ matchcover collection front and back. I both regret and don't regret ever starting. I am way closer to staring than done, and I can't stop now at 20,000+. It may kill me but I hope to make it worthwhile someday.

View from the Prudential Building, 1958 - Chicago, Illinois

I just remembered something on my walk in San Antonio this morning.

I may not be posting as much but I have not stopped scanning my collection. I have thousands of photos...

Does anyone that knows Japanese want to tell me what this Sandwich Factory matchcover says?

Receipt from the very first Holiday Inn (Hotel Courts) 4949 Summer Avenue Memphis, Tennessee Dated October 14, 1952 About 2 months after it opened Amt. Paid: $6.00 Room 509 (from my collection)

The More you know

Let's talk about the short-lived TV show Cover Up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YB6... The show ran for 22 episodes on CBS from September 22, 1984 - April 6, 1985. It starred Jennifer O'Neill and Jon-Erik Hexum. But there is so much more.....

The dog is very skeptical of the kitten shenanigans

Face #sketch #draw #Artshare #drawing #handdrawn #artonpaper #illustrator #illustration

In 2015/16 I bought a lot of photos taken by a couple named Bill and Roseann Johnson. There were more 1,000 photos from 1964-1974. I scanned them all in 2017 and I don't think I shared them outside of my tumblr site. Their nicknames for each other were Hoop (Bill) & Snoop (Roseann).

I bought dozens of knitting/crochet magazines called the Workbasket at a South Bend, Indiana thrift store for $10. I scanned the cover of every one in 2012, as well as the interesting photos inside. I haven't shared most of them. Let's do a thread. Here are the first and last cover 1948-1993.

When I starting posting the name I settled on was What Makes The Pie Shops Tick? The name came from a January 1970 Baking Industry magazine article. Here are the images that lead me to wherever I am now.

Digging through my scans and found some forgotten/non-posted gems: Notre Dame Scholastic - March 14, 1958

one of the most important moments in television

Greetings from from McCall, Idaho

Going through my scans and I discovered this folder of found snapshots I bought back in 2016. There is almost no information or context to these photos, but they caught my eye.

Went to the St. Paul Saints season opener, endured a snowstorm and am at the Minnesota Twins home opener, all in one week. Gotta love spring in Minnesota

The first honorary piss pig. May her wig hang from the Threedom rafters forever.

The first four locations were in Memphis and owned and operated by Kemmons Wilson. The first franchised location (and 5th overall) was in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This location was operated by successful hotelier Albert Pick, who was looking to get in to the newly burgeoning motel franchising game.

Envelope from Holiday Inn East in Montgomery, Alabama. I am guessing this is from about 1958.

Happy April from Minnesota!

The majority of the matchcovers I have scanned so far are 20-strike size. This is the most common size for matchbooks. It merely means that there were 20-matches inside. Here's an example of a front-strike 20-strike matchbook. That means that the match striker is on the :front" of the book

Since December '23, I've been scanning and cataloging my collection of matchcovers. I have more than 12,000 done and am maybe 15% of the way done. I'm going to start sharing some of them on here. This feels to be a fitting first post Don Quixote 206 Paseo de Saratoga San Jose, California

Me in the national security group chat:

I have hundreds and hundreds of found photos. Here are a few from my collection I call "We Look Better Together"