Cars and Transportation

France has a rich history of their airlines. I've listed the first airline, La Compagnie Générale Transaérienne, at the beginning of my listings and the other early airlines are listed in the order they started service. I've tried to list the aircraft for each airline in the order the planes were acquired. In John Stroud's great 680 page reference, European Aircraft since 1910, 171 pages were devoted to French aircraft. In 1933 five airlines were merged to form Air France. The postcards of Air France are listed next followed by other airlines that flew after 1933. This will be a long work in progress.

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17.2025 Car Shows

Here is a link to online videos on YouTube done By Go4rider. He does a really good job at it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJNL6Nz8jIaDqnW3JYAegvA/videos

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18.W. F. Gerecke, Miami, Florida, U.S.

W. F. Gerecke was a Miami photographer who, like C.H. Price of England, was in the right place at the right time to take photographs and make Real Photo postcards of the airport near where he lived. He was the most prolific photographer at the Pan American Airways sea base in Miami during the 1930's. His cards are high quality and most are not that expensive. His earliest postcards have hand written captions on the front of the card. There are some scarce to rare ones in that group. They generally have high image numbers printed with the captions. Soon he switched to a more formal block letter text system for the captions using lower numbers with the images. Some images are available in both types. There are some instances where the hand written text and the block text versions have the same number. There were two different Real Photo card stocks used for the Gerecke postcards. Most common are the cards with the DOPS stamp box on the back of the cards. Some cards also come with an EKC stamp box on the back of the cards. They are probably a second print run for that particular card. This album only shows the Real Photo postcards by Gerecke. There are some Linen and Black and White Litho cards using Gerecke images also. They are shown in the Miami Airport and PAA Flying Boat albums.

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19.Local upcoming car shows (redo)

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20.Great Britain

Aircraft Transport and Travel started regular flights to Paris in 1919. Also in 1919 Handley Page Transport established regular services to Brussels and Paris. A third airline, Instone Air line, started operations later that year. A T & T ran into financial trouble and Daimler Airway purchased their assets in 1920. In 1924 four major airlines in England merged to form Imperial Airways. They included British Marine Air Navigation, Daimler Airway, Handley Page Transport, and Instone Air Line. Finally Imperial merged into British Overseas Airway Corp, BOAC, in 1939. I've concentrated on the early days through the age of Imperial Airways. This album is a work in progress.

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21.Linen Postcards of American Airports

Linen postcards have always been a favorite of mine and there are many linen postcards of airports around the United States. I've listed them in alphabetical order by full state name. I don't have them all but I have a list of 541 different linen U.S. airport postcards made between 1931 and 1958. There are states with no listings because I have not found a linen airport postcard for that state. The back of all the cards are shown as well as what company made the card along with the inventory number from that company. The publisher of the postcard is not mentioned, only the company who actually made the postcard. If the card maker is not on the card I'll list publisher information to identify the card. One of the main card manufacturers was the Curt Teich Co. later shortened to Curteich. Their cards can be dated from the first two digits of their inventory number. For example the card 5C-H565 is from 1955. The 5 is the year; the C is the decade. A=1930's, B=1940's, C=1950's. There are a couple of exceptions which I'll mention with the card. Beneath the front of the card I'll mention any airlines with identifyable aircraft on the card.

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22.Airline Routes and Maps

Airlines would sometimes include route maps on postcards given to passengers showing all the cities the airline serviced. A nice group of those are shown in this album. Also included are some flight information postcards.

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23.United Air Lines Menu Postcards

By far the largest grouping of menu postcards issued by the airlines are those from United Air Lines. I believe they began in 1939. The earliest ones are a slightly larger card measuring 3-1/2" x 6". I believe they changed to the standard postcard size of 3-1/2" x 5-1/2" in 1949. The last dated card I've seen is a Halloween card dated 1964. If you collected these by meal you would end up with over a thousand different postcards. The later cards most often list the place where the meals were prepared, and often the chef. The most common cards are the chrome era cards showing a photo on one half of the card and the menu on the other half. There are 24 different photos used on that series and 27 cities I've seen where the meals were prepared. I don't think any of the photo types come with all the cities. The one that comes close is the Fishing Fleet, Gloucester Harbor, MA. I've only found one of the half photo series with no city or chef mentioned. Since the United menu postcards finished in the early 1960's I've included those cards also. There are a number of cards I do not have. I'll add them as I acquire new ones.

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24.United Air Lines B&W Series 1932-40

The United Air Lines black and white series of postcards is the largest airline issued group of postcards from the 1932-1940 period. The earliest issues were Real Photo postcards some of which were later made as lithographic versions. The Real Photo versions I'll call "RPPC" and the lithographic versions I'll call "Litho" in the titles and descriptions. There are 4 distinct series. The first series has backs for both the Real Photo and litho versions. The second series were giveaways at the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago in 1933 and 1934. These are the most common of the group. The third series has a map by itself logo on the back and features the Boeing 247. The 4rd series, featuring the DC-3 has a shield logo on the back. The first series is the only group that has any Real Photo postcards. All the others are black and white litho postcards. The first series has a number of rare cards. I still do not have all of them myself. If you collected only one card with a different image on the front of the card you would end up with around 80 cards. If you collected all the varieties you would end up with roughly double that number. The date ranges I show for the different series are based on the postmarks I've seen for the cards in the series.

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25.Posters

One of the more colorful series of postcards of the airlines are the poster style cards. These were issued by the airlines and they used art created by artists from their country. I think they are a lot more interesting than the modern day posters using photographs. I've listed them by airline and show the home country in text under the titles.

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26.Pan American Airways - Flying Boats

Pan American Airways is well known for their flying boats which gave them access to many areas of Latin America prior to airports being established. Some of the later aircraft also started flying to Europe and the far East. There are many great postcards in this section. I'm listing the cards in the order they were put into service by Pan American Airways.

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27.2024 car shows

Pics from different car shows I went to in 2024.

Here is a link to online videos on YouTube done By Go4rider. He does a really good job at it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJNL6Nz8jIaDqnW3JYAegvA/videos

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