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Share click to enlarge On Friday I packed the younger kids into the station wagon and headed to Trader Joe’s in search of shumai and coconut shrimp. But before I reached the frozen section, this fun card grabbed my attention. I love vintage travel tags. Along the top, I spotted stickers from Paris, Casablanca (Hotel [...] Share Hong Kong postcard, 1994 click to enlarge This postcard is so Suzie Wong, yet I bought and sent it to my Grandma Blumberg in August, 1994, a month shy of my 24th birthday. I wrote to my grandma about my shared summer apartment and how I lived with a couple of people I [...] Share Pago Pago advertisement, Chicago Tiki Room, Chicago The May issue of Travel + Leisure magazine features an article about Trader Vic’s, the old school tiki restaurant. The article even credits Vic Bergeron, the founder of the restaurant, with giving Americans the travel bug starting in the 1930s, when his first Trader Vic’s opened [...] Share Postcard from Shanghai, 1995 This is the Shanghai I remember. Fifteen years and hundreds of glassy skyscrapers later, the city on this postcard exists no more. Notice the streets: few cars, some buses, and dozens of bicycles. As rustic as Shanghai was back then, it was still the most cosmopolitan city in China. Every [...] Share National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Postcard from Taipei, 1991 I wrote this postcard to my dad’s mother in 1991 when I went to Taipei for spring break. The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, to me, was the symbol of Taipei back then. I love the description of the building on the back of the [...] |
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