Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

 

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[peteralway.livejournal.com]

You've posted so many pictures of beaches and lake fronts and river banks that seem to have been ruined by the thing that the postcards show. And I'm never quite sure what it means that this is what I see in so many of these postcards.

I'm reminded of real estate developments where all the streets are named after what they buldozed into oblivion to build them.

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Awesome

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful beach! Let's park cars all over it!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I know from postcards (and it sorta makes sense, cuz isn't Daytona Beach a place car racing happens on TV, or did?) that cars going on this beach is a thing that goes way back. Maybe it wasn't so weird when it was the odd Model T? I dunno.

You can also practically drive right into the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston, but there, as I seem to remember it (this from not-looking-at-postcards life), it's cuz there's a parking lot that just ramps down into the water. Or somethin' like that.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Dunno how it got started, but as I was replying to Peter above, it's a "tradition" there, or so it seems, looking at old postcards.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I guess the other thing I oughta say is that I am attracted to some cards that have that sort of built-in irony to them. Or aren't apparently self-conscious about their capitalism or some such. And, as we've talked about, I do like cards that show the road or the means of the trip, almost accidentally revealing that that's as much the point as the destination, if not more it than. (That's a sentence-chunk structure that should exist, so I'm willing it into being.)

Some of these ideas are akin to "so ugly it's beautiful", maybe.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

P.P.S. real estate developments where all the streets are named after what they buldozed into oblivion to build them --- or what they want to pretend was there or is nearby!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

I've always been puzzled by the phenomenon at Daytona Beach of cars driving along the beach between the water and the people who want to get to the water.