I Love Postcards!

It all started twenty years ago when I innocently accompanied my new brother-in-law to the antique store, hunching over shoe box after shoe box looking for elusive small towns in Switzerland.  Postcards were quite affordable back then, we rarely paid over a dollar unless it was an extraordinarily nice card. 

Initially, few in our family understood my brother-in-law's fascination with cards.  Still, we kept returning to the shoe boxes even when he wasn't with us, hoping to find a card for him and occasionally finding one that we fancied and kept for ourselves.

That's how it started.  Now the whole family is hooked.  

Although most nice cards now cost more than a dollar, they are still an extremely affordable way of preserving and enjoying history.  We can revisit the theaters we went to as kids, before they were divided into mutliplexes.  We can see our towns as our great-grandparents saw them, the stores they shopped at, the street cars they rode.  Many cards are as attractive today as when they were first purchased at the penny postcard shop.