Vintage Easter Angel Cards

Just sharing a few vintage Easter angel postcards with you from Birdhouse Books - more in my store!

Thursday To-Do & Free Listing Promos on eBay

Good morning, eBay friends!

Do you ever have a day where you feel like you could take a nap, and it is 8:36 a.m.?  Today is one of those days here.  Guess I need more coffee.  :-)

Today's plans:
* Listings - some really nice 1950's - 1960's chrome tourist postcards (some motels, some tourist attractions)

I'm trying to take advantage of eBay's free auctions promotion, which is running through the end of the month.  I don't know why, but these listing promotions usually do not boost my sales the way I hope they would;  I'm not sure why.  Maybe many more items appear in my categories at this time?  But - I appreciate the opportunity to list for free (thank you, eBay!) and I still  certainly try to list as much as possible.

If any of you has a great tip about maximizing sales during the free listing promos, please let me know!

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Hope you'll join me!   Would love to hear from you!

Happy Tuesday! Vintage Playing Card Day

Happy Tuesday, and happy First Day of Spring!   It already feels like July in the deep south ... temps in the 80's during the afternoon.

Today I'm planning to work with vintage playing cards again.  I have more vintage dog cards to list in my store. They range in age from 1940's linen cards of Terriers and Poodles to more modern 1960's cards, like the groovy Greyhounds above.  I love the colors in this card!

I also really plan to list some books at Amazon today.  Yesterday I got sidetracked and that didn't happen.

Hope you have a great day!

1940's Vintage Fred Harvey - Harvey House Menu

When I was a little girl, one of my favorite movies was the Judy Garland musical The Harvey Girls.  Since I love American history and food history, I also became interested in the Harvey House restaurants, started by Fred Harvey, and located at railroad stations across the western United States.   And of course, I loved reading about the Harvey Girls, young American women who moved west to be waitresses at the Harvey House restaurants.

My friends went to a local estate sale and found this menu, which I am delighted to have and keep with my Harvey House books! It is a 1940's World War II vintage menu from the Fred Harvey Restaurant at Union Station in Houston, Texas.   The front cover has a guide to ribbon identification of World War II military service men.  It's a breakfast menu, and I think I will order the Meal No. 2 - Two Eggs, Fried, Boiled, or Scrambled, Hashed Brown Potatoes, Toast, and Coffee -- for 50 cents.   Really neat!