Cardboard America
@cardboardamerica.bsky.social
Live from the Midway in the Twin Cities. Posting since 2008. Collector of way too much but never enough. cardboardamerica@gmail.com
I have been working since 2023 on scanning and cataloging my matchcover collection. Currently I have 25,000 completed and still have a long way to go. However, since 2008 I have been scanning my collection including: 1. Over 29,000 postcards... (Museum of Science & Industry - Chicago, Illinois)
July 1955 Movie schedule Lake Theatre - Lake View, Iowa
October 19, 1894 postcard from Twin City Iron Works
One of my favorite things in my collection 1995 Trail of Blood limited edition OJ Simpson murder trial Pogs
The Mechanafe 211 N. 8th St. - Boise, Idaho 100% Waiterless Restaurant It's Electrical - It's Fascinating It's Sanitary It's Beautiful It's Mechanical It's Novelty It's Progress It's The Show Place of Idaho Opened in 1929 shortly before the stock market collapse and lasted throughout the 1930s.
Woodlake Humpty Dumpty Food Marts 5 Complete Markets
I have mentioned a few times in the past what I have been working on for a few years - scanning and cataloging my rather large collection of matchcovers. Let's share some of the hundreds I have from the Twin Cities... Al Nye's Polonaise Room (1949-2016)
One of the random subsections of my collection is Sunday School guilt trip postcards from 1910ish to the 1970s. These were postcards sent out to kids (and their parents) who missed Sunday School at their local church.
Back in 2016 I purchased nearly 2000 photos taken by a window painting company called Wonder Window. The photos were from the Los Angeles area and were taken mainly between 1988-1992. I posted some a month ago. Feels like time to share some more.
One of these days I'm going to get back to scanning my collection of CB radio QSL cards. If you and I connected on CB radio we would get each other's address and send a QSL card as a souvenir of our interaction.
Greetings from.... Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Boat names in the Lake Superior harbor in Duluth.
Back in 2016 I purchased nearly 2000 photos taken by a window painting company called Wonder Window. The photos were from the Los Angeles area and were taken mainly between 1988-1992. I never shared most of them because I was hoping to make a book/booklet project out of it. Then life happened.
Here are some more of the Burkhart Indiana billboard photos from the '80s
A few years ago I bought more than a hundred photos taken by an Indiana billboard company called Burkhart. They took photos of their own work and other companies across the state in the '80s. Here are some of them...
Going through my collection of internet service provider discs from the 90s-2000s. Here are four free CD-Rom games given away with General Mills products in 2000.
Hard Rock Cafe menu from New York, New York. I saved this from my visit to NY in March, 1994.
Found my old Bumbershoot 2001 ticket stub from August 31-September 3. One week before the 2001 version of the end of the world.
I love it here. I am heartbroken and outraged.
I bought this postcard years ago and it's still one of my favorites. It's a real photo postcard - date unknown - with a couple at the end of an all-night dance-a-thon/dance competition.
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.
Back in around 2017 I bought a series of photos in a binder labeled "Displays" and they were right in my wheelhouse.
