These things pop up in unlikely places, like at an estate sale. This is a vintage Piedmont child’s souvenir candy travel bag. It was sold at the Piedmont store, filled with candy to keep the little nipper occupied during the flight. It is 7″ wide, 3.5″ deep and about 4″ high (just the bag, not the straps). It has a metal zipper. Manufactured by Airline Textiles Manufacturing Co. of Des Moines IA. The company, apparently, is still in business.
This is an unopened card deck I found at an estate sale. This airline went out of the flying trade in 1982.
I’ve been collecting “kiddie wings”, the metal or plastic wings given to children on airline flights, for over a decade now. I found this at an estate sale in Johnson City TN. It is nicely done. It’s 2″ wing tip to wing tip and 5/8″ at the circle. The logo of the First Nations person is topped with an acrylic dome. Base metal, made in China.
This appears to be the real thing; although, I may be wrong. This Real Photo Post Card (RPPC) depicts a night shot of the fire that devastated Bluff City Mills in July of 1946. The mill was partially rebuilt and finally gave up the ghost somewhere in the early 1990s.
I can’t find any references on the internet to Bluff City Photo Shop, but Frasher’s is well known in and around Pomona CA. The company went out of business circa 1955.
This card was purchased locally by a buddy of mine who has an eagle-sharp eye when it comes to local collectibles.
These are on the side porch at a friend’s house. Fine color for this orchid, an epiphyte whose name comes from the Sanskrit word for this flower, vanda. Literal translation, I’m told, means “mistletoe” or, more generally, any parasitic plant.
You don’t see a lot of these around. It’s a wooden feed silo. I have no guess of its age, but these tended to rot out over a period of time. It’s located on the right on Highway 58 in Lee County VA, just a bit east of the junction of 58 and 421.
Southeast Kentucky. This hydrant is on a water line supplying a large mining operation that folded its tents and slowly moved away in the mid-50s.
I don’t know why I always get the odd ones. The standard for this late 1950’s Junior Stewardess pin, given out to young girls when they boarded a Delta plane, is at Fly the Branded Skies. Look under “D” for Delta. Mine, however, lacks the cardboard backing that came with every kiddie wings, the Delta logo is crooked and the back’s really crudely done. No hallmark, either. Bummer.
I’m going to put this in a new card folder, but this is mostly how it looked when I bought it (for under $4). My pencil notation is what I dug up on the web.
“Grts”, in post card lingo, often refers to a card with “Greetings from…” on the front. The picture on the front of this card is some generic view of a river with a train steaming along it. When I looked, the railroad in Pennington doesn’t get too close to the Powell River, anyway. The overprint just ties it to Pennington, for tourism’s sake, you know. I would date this card to the late 40s, early 50s.
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