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#1742 40s RP Roadside Motel WA
Here is a nice one! It is a vintage RP / RPPC / Real Photo Post Card. It pictures a row of old roadside lodge buildings. Each neatly stands along old US 97 in Ellensburg. An old billboard reads Branding Iron Lodges. Another sign reads AAA. Front of card is printed and reads "Branding Iron Lodges, U.S. 97, PO Box 564, South City Limits, Ellensburg, Washington". Card was published by "Views Inc. Seattle Washington". Card back is divided and postally unused with a "Place Stamp Here" stamp box. Condition-Excellent
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#1416 RP High School Anacortes WA !!!
This is nice! It is a vintage 1940's era RP / RPPC / Real Photo Post Card view. It shows an old view of a two story brick school building. Vintage 40's auto sits out front. Card front is printed "Senior High School - Anacortes Wash.". Back of card is divided and postally unused with a "Kodak Paper Place Stamp Here" stamp box. Condition-Excellent
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#721 Pair WA Hurricane Disaster Postcards!
These rppc postcards are nice! Both are original RPPC postcard views. The first pictures an old wooden building with debris everywhere. At left is a large boat? A sign out front reads "Seattle Lobster House". Back of card is handwritten and reads "Long Wharf, Walter Cremin, a bartender, was killed in the wreckage of the Seattle Lobster House, hurricane of Sept. 21/38".
The second card pictures a large uprooted tree. Back of card is handwritten and reads "Once a beautiful elm tree opposite the Court House, blown down in hurricane of Sept. 21 1938". Both nice collectible RP disaster related postcard views! Back of both cards are undivided and postally unused, with an "A Z O Place Stamp Here" stamp boxe. Condition is excellent to near mint on both! Any lines or waves are from the scanner and not on the actual image.
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#550 Soap Lake WA Sanitarium !!!
This is nice! It is an early 1910 era RPPC postcard. It pictures an early image of a small wooden building with tents pitched out back. A sign on the front of the building reads "Soap Lake Sanitarium". A dock on the lake can be seen at right and outhouses and another tent can be seen at the left side of the image. The card front is printed and reads "Soap Lake Sanitarium , Soap Lake Wash. , A.W. Hill Photo". Soap Lake was homesteaded in 1901 on the south-western corner of the lake. In 1904 a store was built to mark the new town. At the time Indians came each summer to gather tsuka-lotsa, use the water, and to race horses. White men came to use the water and to enjoy the races. The second business in town would be a hotel for the benefit of those who were not inclined to camp out while visiting the area. It was the first of many, which developed into Sanitariums to serve the health conscious visitors. This hotel later became the Soap Lake Sanitarium and operated until 1945. By the time Soap Lake became official, it was already a busy resort and health spa with four hotels, many rooming houses and apartments, and businesses catering to the campers by renting tents, boats and bathing suits. Due to its popularity, visitors often could not find accommodations at the hotel or sanitarium of their choice and had to be content with a tent provided behind the buildings for overflow guests. Card back is divided and postally unused with an "A Z O Place Stamp Here" stamp box, dating it from 1910 until around 1915 or so. Condition is near mint except for two tiny pin holes at top edge.
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