The Accumulator

The Accumulator: Volume One, Number Nine These images were published in the issue mentioned above.   This image was created by Tim "T-Dog" Miller for the Aid and Abettors project started by Marie Boussai and Lara Kaminoff.       This is from Jack Jeffer's "The Old Cabin" series.    This is one of the most atrocious cut and past jobs I have ever seen on a production postcard. I mean, I have certainly done worse, but I wasn't trying to sell it to anyone either!    A close up.   "A Trabi with 1 HP"       "Called To Service" by Harry Anderson, 1945.     If you enjoyed this, maybe you will enjoy my other blog "Boxholder"   http://boxholder.blogspot.com            

 November 9, 2024 It has been a minute. Well, over a million of them actually. Here are some cards that are featured in Volume 1, Number 8 of THE ACCUMULATOR This is a fish trap in Southeast Alaska.  This Aleut woman and child were forcibly removed from their home in the Aleutians or Pribilof Islands and interred in Southeast Alaska from 1942 to 1945. I was unfamiliar with this means of locomotion until I saw this postcard! This postcard was published in Newfoundland, Canada.  I enjoy these outrageous Exaggeration Postcards. This was printed in Minnesota. I think Joey lost the leg. Great Pre-Photoshop cut and paste! Kamloops rainbow trout caught in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho. These monstrous catfish were caught in the Tennessee River. According to the reverse of the postcard, the whopper on the left weighed sixty pounds and the dainty little fish on the right weighed twenty pounds each. A Cape Cod lobsterman and his catch.  This one didn't make it into the latest Accum...

 The Accumulator Volume One, Number Six These images are an accompaniment to Volume One, Number Six of The Accumulator newsletter. This is Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn Snack Bar in Las Vegas, Nevada The New Grove Restaurant in Seattle, Washington Italian Swiss Colony Winery in Asti, California The Red Parlor at Ye Olde Hoosier Inn at Stockton, California   The Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo, California The Cocktail Nook at the Madonna Inn  Room 160,"Austrian Suite", Madonna Inn Room 169, "Vouz", Madonna Inn Room 212, "Fleur De Lis", Madonna Inn

 THE ACCUMULATOR Volume One Number Five It has been awhile since the last issue and that is just the way it goes. This latest issue features postcards from San Francisco. The paper version has B&W images and this blog exists solely to share the color versions. This is an advertisement for Sing Fat's new location which they moved to in June of 1912. The building was built a few years earlier right after-the 1906 earthquake. It is still there but isn't quite as elaborately decorated     This is the Nam Kue Chinese School on Sacramento Street.  It too is still standing.     This is a view of Sutro Baths and the Cliff House. The baths were built in the 1890s but had fallen into disuse by the Great Depression. The baths held 1.7 million gallons of water and could hold 10,000 people   This is a close-up of the baths and the Cliff House from the same postcard. This is the Fleishhacker Pool. It was the largest swimming pool in the United States. It was bui...

 The Postcard Accumulator: Act I, Scene II Here are some more postcards that appear in The Accumulator, Volume 1, Number 4.  This is the Sea Food Platter at the Ideal Fish Restaurant in Santa Cruz, California.   Everything you need to know is right there! While this is a great card, the identity of the sender makes it a little more special. Can you figure out who it is?       This is Noah's Ark Steakhouse in Diamond Point Minnesota.  Bernstein's Fish Grotto 1907 to 1981. I don't have any information about this one. It was sent from Burien, Washington, so I am assuming it is somewhere in Washington, but there was no information on the reverse of the card. Please send your comments and questions to: The Accumulator c/o PJM, Post Office Box 2632, Bellingham, Washington, 98227-2632, United States of America.