Text on card: Greyhound Key, Florida
Actually we see a bus stopped at Greyhound Post House, a Greyhound affiliate at this time. Some research makes me assume that was at Overseas Highway FL (opened in 1938).
Overseas Highway FL
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Lake Norfolk Henderson AR
Lake Norfolk
Henderson AR
U.S.Highway 62 and 101 ferry Panther Bay landing Ferry (ca.1950)
Note: There is a very unusual woodie station wagon with long wheel base loaded on the ferry, probably a (one of a kind) Oldsmobile.
Westwood Village CA
Showing old businesses of the city and traffic, text on the backside reads:
WESTWOOD VILLAGE
WEST LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
Westwood Village is ultra-modern, different in every respect, in a land at unusual communities. Smart shops, intimate restaurants, outdoor skating rink and the college atmosphere, all lend to make Westwood one of the most unusual and pictoresque of California’s newer cities.
A similar view, ca.20 years earlier, we see here.)
Westwood Village CA
Text on the back reads:
Westwood Village , West Los Angeles, Calif.
(A view ca. 20 years later is here.)
Sands Motel Wichita Falls TX
This is a very interesting card. It shows some kind of clone of the ‘real’ Sands hotel in Las Vegas. It is the Sands motel Wichita Falls TX. The architecture and the sign look definitely similar, just scaled down.
(The original card is here.)
Card reads:
Western Sands Motel
Hwys, 82 and 277 at the Circle
Wichita Falls TX
One of the newest and finest in the city. 56 beautiful rooms with free television, free ice, heated pool, individual heat and air conditioning. Complete dining facilities, wall to wall carpeting, combination tile baths, 24hours room phones. Only three minutes from downtown
Phone: 322-5618. L.D 29.P.O. Box 2078
Sands Motel Las Vegas NV
The Sands Motel Las Vegas NV
The Sands is a great hotel created in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. This magnificent structure was created by a leading designer who has achieved an architectural blend of modern beauty and design which will remain unsurpassed for years to come.
(A card of a hotel with the same and similar architectural layout (!) is here.)
Side note:
The Sands Motel Las Vegas NV and many other Vegas hotels of the 50’s are featured in this interesting video
1948 Oldsmobile 4Dr Sedan
This 1948 Oldsmobile post card shows a 1948 Oldsmobile 4dr sedan. It reads on back:
BEURMANN MARSHALL
LANSING MICH.
1946 Oldsmobile 4Dr Sedan
1946 Oldsmobile Post Card
A very early post card, issued after World War 2. This 1946 Oldsmobile Post Card reads on the back:
KAPKE NASH
411 S.Fond du Lac Ave.
Menomonee Falls, Wis.
Phone 2560
Wall Drug Store, Wall SD
Taken approximately the same time, mid 50’s. Text reads:
The Wall Drug Store, at Wall, South Dakota. This business was started by Ted and Dorothy Hustead in 1931. Ted and Dorothy still operate the business with the help of their Pharmacist son, Bill. Some of the free attractions for the tourists are the life size animated Cowboy Orchestra, the life size, animated, Chuck Wagon Quartette, the bucking horse, covered wagon, 6 foot rabbit, stuffed, and buffalo, stuffed.
Wall Drug store (earlier years)
Wall Drug Store, Wall SD
This Wall Drug Store, Wall SD post card shows a 1948/1949 Pontiac fastback Sedan.
This card shows the Wall Drug Store in Wall SD, in the early days. Note the small house the shop is located in and the parking lot for two or three cars!
More of Wall Drug store (later years)