About a decade ago someone threw a bunch of old letters and photos from like 1900 in my grandpa's recycling bin. He took them out and one of the letters was from a little girl maybe 8 or 9 writing to her mom back east about her trip out here to AZ to visit family. She took a train and a stagecoach but wasn't scared "a tall". She wrote how she spoke so when you read it out loud it was like you could hear her voice. It was kinda eerie.
similar thing with my dad’s elderly neighbor that got shipped off to a nursing home in about 1985. What the family couldn’t sell we’re thrown out and my dad took some of them home which included old National Geographic from about 1900.
39:29 I absolutely love the multi-choice postcard with checkboxes; I've never seen that before, and it's actually perfect for the postcard format--with longer letter to follow! 😊
1:37:05 Looking it up, the cyrillic in the top left matches the english text just below it, which states its Maurice Thorez Prospekt (with Prospekt translatable to 'road'). From looking online it appears the building shown was part of an apartment complex on the street; there is another postcard from the time of the buildings more directly, but I couldn't see anything about their importance, so it could just be that the area itself was aesthetically appealing enough with the parks and buildings to be postcard worthy
I’m an inveterate obituary searcher, and the touching child’s scrawl on 1912 card (at 46:53) intrigued me; I wondered if he had come from Ireland (horse-drawn jaunting cart-so ingenious!). In 1955 Ohio, 54-year-old Wayne Balliet “ended his life…shotgun to heart…following illness.” His mother’s find-a-grave notation says she lived in Lucas, Ohio-the town to which the addressee Golda lived. With no street address, I wonder if Golda received the card. I hope Wayne had a good life after his seeming friend Golda moved away, and before the pains of illness took him from Earth.
At 1:32:57 when they're speaking about Elliot Fisher machines they're talking about the Elliot Fisher Bookwriter. It's a typewriter where the entire machine sits on rails and the type bars strike down onto a flat surface. They were primarily used for ledger keeping. A platen is what the cylindrical rubber piece that the paper feeds into on a normal typewriter is called.
This is a great idea, first drop postcards as a patrion, then followed up by a 90 minute postcard video. You are thinking on a whole new level, great job!
the post cards are my favorite thing to look through at antique stores. so grateful for your content and the little glimpses of humans throughout history you give us.
It’s amazing how many people write just to say they’ll write. What different times! There seems to be a set of rules and etiquette around writing. I love the references and apologies for “owing” letters.
Every time I go to antique stores, I search for old postcards with writing on them. They offer a glimpse into the lives of people from our past. What a cool video this is!
I love collecting post cards! They're the triple threat of being nice to look at, having good stories, and best of all being cheap to buy while at antique stores!
Thanks so much for all your hard work. I love your videos. I truly appreciate how you're keeping history alive. You're an incredible storyteller, and your mature reverence during your broadcasts makes you very special. Post cards were the beginning of social media. Those that you shared were very special. Does Intercourse, PA, still exist?
I really enjoy your videos. I pray for your curiosity to deepen, and that you'll continue finding and sharing these lovely relics of the past. It's so interesting to look back at how people really lived.
It's interesting how many of these are addressed to places in Oklahoma. I just recently moved to Oklahoma and have been enjoying learning about the history of the state so it stood out to me.
A really lovely video, thank you. These are such a perfectly sized window into the past. You get just enough information to appreciate the personal connection to a real person, but little enough that you get to enjoy imagining all the possibilities of their story. And of course in times where postcards may well be the only way outsiders ever get to see your town, it's interesting to see what people chose as their biggest points of pride worthy of a postcard.
This video filled me with such joy. It was so relaxing to slow down and watch, and think about people and times long gone. Very inspiring and made me feel less alone on a blue day. Thank you for your excellent content keep up the good work.
i have to admit i didn't find the subject of this video particularly interesting, but that really says something about your voice and narration skills, because i still happily sat through the whole nearly two hours of it
44:35 "We found your purse on the seat you and ___ sat on in the church. We are on our way to Briston(?) today. Will see you when we come home. Love, Grandma."
This video is so relaxing, I found myself just listening at some point while multi-tasking. I'll watch again to get a gander at all the vintage mementos.
I love how the camera and editing reminds me of how people stream opening trading card packs, but the actual content is totally different. Very relaxed, enjoyable vibes. Excellent long form content!
I'd love a "time savers" post card! Just check the boxes: no writer's cramp, no muss, no fuss! What a fun video! My other favorite was the logging camp dudes with that guy sitting in a barrel and a "french chef". It's really interesting hearing about every day folks lives. Thanks DSA youtube channel!
Where can I find more channels like yours? I am about 8.5 months pregnant and have a lot of anxiety but your videos are always so calming!(even the goofy ones) My dad is a History Major and so I grew up loving this kind of stuff. You are way younger than him but remind me so much of him. Please keep doing what you’re doing!
It is bittersweet to see some of these beautiful old cities before they were destroyed by greedy politicians from within. Hoping that changes soon & they are restored.
I collect postcard with messages on them from every town I play in when I'm on tours!! I've been donating to his patreon for a while and wish more folks would! Totally worth every penny!
Googling ' Soviet stamp canoe' turns up a stamp with the same picture as the one at 1:37:17 which is apparently from 1969. I absolutely loved this video. So many dates and places mentioned on the cards have so much dramatic history attached to them. But it hardly makes it into the messages, which are mostly just related to people's everyday lives. That, or how many bears they'd seen. Makes the stresses of the modern news cycle seem a bit easier to deal with. PS, you just upset a whole bunch of Michiganders because 'Mackinac' is pronounced 'Mack-in-awe'!
i saw this was posted, watched a little bit, then came back to it now, only to JUST REALIZE its near two hours long, the perfect length. Thank you Mr Dimes.
What fun! Your channel is unique. I used to browse the postcards on the strand in Galveston, TX when I lived in Houston. There were so many wonderful things to see there in the 80s at the antique stores. Even from the 1800s, which is amazing because of the hurricane that flooded the entire town back then. You know what might be fascinating? Group the cards by sender and recipient. That could be a neat story in itself. Thank you for your time and effort in your channel.
Wow, is there nothing they can't make out of leather? What you have there is a slice of Americana. Especially the one about Intercourse Penn. Really interesting topic. Thank you for your videos.
I always ask my friends to send me the tackiest (or, ideally, oldest) postcards they can find when they travel. It's a dying art. These are so cool, as are the stamps. Thanks for the memories, even if they are someone else's! 💌
Did many people travel with portable typewriters or did they type their cards in motels? I was surprised to see this many typewritten. Or even typed address labels.
I must comment here too! Those were very organized individuals. I am surprised to see the travel tip being used that early on. Taking along a sheet of typed up labels of friends/family or your own message to slap on a postcard is time saving. It is especially easy if you have a secretary to do it for you before you leave the office 😂. What different times they were.
3rd time watching this vid, im using it as an inspiration reference for a project in my illustration program to create a set of postcards :^))) love this stuff
Okla, Okla, Okla, Grafton, Okla, Grafton, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Elyria, Okla. 🙃 That's some excellent CWF+RTB, very good thinking, you're awesome and human. Girls got admonished by postcard a lot. P.S. "Knott's Berry Farm" Hope to see you again soon. i'll expect you when i see you.
One additional comment, the Blue Bonnet motel in Sweetwater Texas burned down after the bank foreclosure. The bank razed the motel and built a parking lot. Fare the well sweet Blue Bonnet motel!
A portrait of our time, with a message short & fine. We have a birthday postcard written by our Pa (age 5) from 1915 to his aunt in which he wrote "better late then ever" .. I'm guessing it was never sent? No stamp or post mark? .. We found it 90yrs later among old photos that luckily fell from a photo album lost long ago during a house move.
Lucy the New Jersey Elephant (as shown briefly at 16:22 was built in 1882 and she's still there. The same guy who built her put up an even bigger Elephant Hotel on Coney Island a couple years later, but it burned down not long after it was built.
I wished I'd found your channel before I sorted and moved. I got rid of a box full of unused linen postcards from my grandparents. They also had a bunch of card sets from national parks.
The same guy built a bigger Elephant on Coney Island a few years later, but it burned down. I think that was the one you're referring to. They talked about it on an old episode of the TV show QI, which is how I heard about it. The one in New Jersey is actually still there.
it's just a living apartment building on the Russian postcard. Leningrad is a Soviet name of Saint-Petersburg. This postcard is from the 60s. I don't know why they made such, but my granny also had some postcards just with pictures of streets
Here's a little fun fact about postcards: until 1907 (in the US at least) you could only write the address on the back of postcards, that's why some of the old postcards didn't have any messages on the back (people sometimes wrote short messages on the picture side, that's why some old postcards have a small white border along the bottom of the picture)! :3
1:07:30 I wonder if Esther told Golda she might tear her dress open and lose her buttons... in whichever context that came up between female friends in 1910.
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comfort content creator right here
Isn’t he a relaxing pleasure? I love his research & passion for history.
for real!!!
Joe Pera eat your heart out. Lol
About a decade ago someone threw a bunch of old letters and photos from like 1900 in my grandpa's recycling bin. He took them out and one of the letters was from a little girl maybe 8 or 9 writing to her mom back east about her trip out here to AZ to visit family. She took a train and a stagecoach but wasn't scared "a tall". She wrote how she spoke so when you read it out loud it was like you could hear her voice. It was kinda eerie.
I want to see scans of the notes :D
similar thing with my dad’s elderly neighbor that got shipped off to a nursing home in about 1985. What the family couldn’t sell we’re thrown out and my dad took some of them home which included old National Geographic from about 1900.
59:09 this is Knott's berry farm, started as a roadside berries and jam place and became a rollercoaster theme park.
I don't know why, but I always get excited with your new content. Very interesting and "soothing."
39:29 I absolutely love the multi-choice postcard with checkboxes; I've never seen that before, and it's actually perfect for the postcard format--with longer letter to follow! 😊
1:37:05 Looking it up, the cyrillic in the top left matches the english text just below it, which states its Maurice Thorez Prospekt (with Prospekt translatable to 'road'). From looking online it appears the building shown was part of an apartment complex on the street; there is another postcard from the time of the buildings more directly, but I couldn't see anything about their importance, so it could just be that the area itself was aesthetically appealing enough with the parks and buildings to be postcard worthy
I swear, ever since the Lake Chargoggagog incident, DSA has just been dropping it willy-nilly to let us know hes still got it
Fantabulous! And man you can still spit out Lake Chargawhatever.
I’m an inveterate obituary searcher, and the touching child’s scrawl on 1912 card (at 46:53) intrigued me; I wondered if he had come from Ireland (horse-drawn jaunting cart-so ingenious!). In 1955 Ohio, 54-year-old Wayne Balliet “ended his life…shotgun to heart…following illness.” His mother’s find-a-grave notation says she lived in Lucas, Ohio-the town to which the addressee Golda lived. With no street address, I wonder if Golda received the card. I hope Wayne had a good life after his seeming friend Golda moved away, and before the pains of illness took him from Earth.
Wow so interesting
At 1:32:57 when they're speaking about Elliot Fisher machines they're talking about the Elliot Fisher Bookwriter. It's a typewriter where the entire machine sits on rails and the type bars strike down onto a flat surface. They were primarily used for ledger keeping. A platen is what the cylindrical rubber piece that the paper feeds into on a normal typewriter is called.
This is a great idea, first drop postcards as a patrion, then followed up by a 90 minute postcard video. You are thinking on a whole new level, great job!
Oh cool, this will be a good one!
God bless you buddy keep it up!
Greetings from Middletown Conn :)
the post cards are my favorite thing to look through at antique stores. so grateful for your content and the little glimpses of humans throughout history you give us.
Dime Store Adventures is the most wholesome content I regularly enjoy by a thousand miles.
It’s amazing how many people write just to say they’ll write. What different times! There seems to be a set of rules and etiquette around writing. I love the references and apologies for “owing” letters.
I listen to this almost everyday I let it play in the background. While I fall asleep
Great video, very solid channel from what I've seen. Keep it up.
Every time I go to antique stores, I search for old postcards with writing on them. They offer a glimpse into the lives of people from our past. What a cool video this is!
I love collecting post cards! They're the triple threat of being nice to look at, having good stories, and best of all being cheap to buy while at antique stores!
Thanks so much for all your hard work. I love your videos. I truly appreciate how you're keeping history alive. You're an incredible storyteller, and your mature reverence during your broadcasts makes you very special.
Post cards were the beginning of social media. Those that you shared were very special.
Does Intercourse, PA, still exist?
This was a fascinating video. It's inter.
Esting how seemingly Commonplace things.
Because become much more significant somehow.
I really enjoy your videos. I pray for your curiosity to deepen, and that you'll continue finding and sharing these lovely relics of the past. It's so interesting to look back at how people really lived.
26:30 I don’t know why but ‘Basket of fun’ really tickles me. I’ve got to start working into my everyday speech.
It's interesting how many of these are addressed to places in Oklahoma.
I just recently moved to Oklahoma and have been enjoying learning about the history of the state so it stood out to me.
A really lovely video, thank you. These are such a perfectly sized window into the past. You get just enough information to appreciate the personal connection to a real person, but little enough that you get to enjoy imagining all the possibilities of their story. And of course in times where postcards may well be the only way outsiders ever get to see your town, it's interesting to see what people chose as their biggest points of pride worthy of a postcard.
This video filled me with such joy. It was so relaxing to slow down and watch, and think about people and times long gone. Very inspiring and made me feel less alone on a blue day. Thank you for your excellent content keep up the good work.
i have to admit i didn't find the subject of this video particularly interesting, but that really says something about your voice and narration skills, because i still happily sat through the whole nearly two hours of it
44:35 "We found your purse on the seat you and ___ sat on in the church. We are on our way to Briston(?) today. Will see you when we come home. Love, Grandma."
This video is so relaxing, I found myself just listening at some point while multi-tasking. I'll watch again to get a gander at all the vintage mementos.
I love how the camera and editing reminds me of how people stream opening trading card packs, but the actual content is totally different. Very relaxed, enjoyable vibes. Excellent long form content!
The stories these post cards could tell 😊
“Write me and tell me how your hair is.” 😂
I'd love a "time savers" post card! Just check the boxes: no writer's cramp, no muss, no fuss! What a fun video! My other favorite was the logging camp dudes with that guy sitting in a barrel and a "french chef". It's really interesting hearing about every day folks lives. Thanks DSA youtube channel!
I've been keeping this tab open in my browser and dipping in now and then for a few cards. Very nice!
love the history.... from cromwell connecticut, previously known as the the upper houses of middletown 😊
This is great. Thank you! How wonderful when this was a primary way to communicate - via the back of a beautiful (or interesting at least) picture.
Where can I find more channels like yours?
I am about 8.5 months pregnant and have a lot of anxiety but your videos are always so calming!(even the goofy ones)
My dad is a History Major and so I grew up loving this kind of stuff. You are way younger than him but remind me so much of him.
Please keep doing what you’re doing!
Hopefully all went well in the birthing of your child.
It is bittersweet to see some of these beautiful old cities before they were destroyed by greedy politicians from within. Hoping that changes soon & they are restored.
My favorite youtuber at it again! Thank you!
Lake Chargogmangog....... makes another cameo! Awesome
Love the guy reading in a barrel on a wheelbarrow.
I collect postcard with messages on them from every town I play in when I'm on tours!! I've been donating to his patreon for a while and wish more folks would! Totally worth every penny!
Googling ' Soviet stamp canoe' turns up a stamp with the same picture as the one at 1:37:17 which is apparently from 1969. I absolutely loved this video. So many dates and places mentioned on the cards have so much dramatic history attached to them. But it hardly makes it into the messages, which are mostly just related to people's everyday lives. That, or how many bears they'd seen. Makes the stresses of the modern news cycle seem a bit easier to deal with.
PS, you just upset a whole bunch of Michiganders because 'Mackinac' is pronounced 'Mack-in-awe'!
i saw this was posted, watched a little bit, then came back to it now, only to JUST REALIZE its near two hours long, the perfect length. Thank you Mr Dimes.
i love how most of the big attractions were just as popular back then as they are now
This was a very relaxing video. I watched it half asleep while resting in the afternoon, would do again.
What fun! Your channel is unique. I used to browse the postcards on the strand in Galveston, TX when I lived in Houston. There were so many wonderful things to see there in the 80s at the antique stores. Even from the 1800s, which is amazing because of the hurricane that flooded the entire town back then. You know what might be fascinating? Group the cards by sender and recipient. That could be a neat story in itself. Thank you for your time and effort in your channel.
Wow, is there nothing they can't make out of leather?
What you have there is a slice of Americana. Especially the one about Intercourse Penn.
Really interesting topic. Thank you for your videos.
TY! for the unique and very interesting content...
the permanence of these and the impermanence of us sends me into existential crisis
They're not permanent? One day these cards will also degrade and return to dust.
Excellent video,now I subscribed! I enjoy old postcards myself and the linen style are my favorites.
Ropes mansion in Salem at @26:52 was used as Alison's house in Hocus Pocus. It is now owned by the Peabody Essex Museum.
I always ask my friends to send me the tackiest (or, ideally, oldest) postcards they can find when they travel. It's a dying art. These are so cool, as are the stamps. Thanks for the memories, even if they are someone else's! 💌
Did many people travel with portable typewriters or did they type their cards in motels? I was surprised to see this many typewritten. Or even typed address labels.
I must comment here too! Those were very organized individuals. I am surprised to see the travel tip being used that early on. Taking along a sheet of typed up labels of friends/family or your own message to slap on a postcard is time saving. It is especially easy if you have a secretary to do it for you before you leave the office 😂. What different times they were.
3rd time watching this vid, im using it as an inspiration reference for a project in my illustration program to create a set of postcards :^))) love this stuff
@54:00: My guess is the 2 Doodles are college friends (Boy writing Girl or vice versa). This is fun! 😊
I just got my postcard!!! The cloister is a little over an hour away from me and I am definitely going to check it out as soon as I can!
Awesome! Glad you like the card!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
😊 very enjoyable
I’m a poster collector, the linen postcards are right up my street!
This goes incredibly hard
This is cozy content, but man, that double take I did at the Chargoggaggog pronunciation bit nearly gave me whiplash
Okla, Okla, Okla, Grafton, Okla, Grafton, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Elyria, Okla. 🙃
That's some excellent CWF+RTB, very good thinking, you're awesome and human.
Girls got admonished by postcard a lot.
P.S. "Knott's Berry Farm"
Hope to see you again soon. i'll expect you when i see you.
One additional comment, the Blue Bonnet motel in Sweetwater Texas burned down after the bank foreclosure. The bank razed the motel and built a parking lot. Fare the well sweet Blue Bonnet motel!
This was so cool and relaxing to watch
Wow some of these are really awesome. Makes me want to send postcards
An ode to true passion 😊
One of the best RUclipsrs out there. Wish there was more context like what u make bro
A portrait of our time, with a message short & fine. We have a birthday postcard written by our Pa (age 5) from 1915 to his aunt in which he wrote "better late then ever" .. I'm guessing it was never sent? No stamp or post mark? .. We found it 90yrs later among old photos that luckily fell from a photo album lost long ago during a house move.
I climbed that hockey rink at Yale, it’s called the whale tail.
I wonder how many of the mid century cards have those same sky backgrounds that were pasted all over different cards
Lucy the New Jersey Elephant (as shown briefly at 16:22 was built in 1882 and she's still there. The same guy who built her put up an even bigger Elephant Hotel on Coney Island a couple years later, but it burned down not long after it was built.
I love your videos. It's criminal that you dont have 150k plus subs.
I wished I'd found your channel before I sorted and moved. I got rid of a box full of unused linen postcards from my grandparents. They also had a bunch of card sets from national parks.
Yesssssssssssss missed you
Love these vids so much
1:08:00 If it was 1944, the president was FDR, who would leave this earth by 4/12/45.
59:06 its actually Knotts Berry Farm and its like the small time version of disneyland, actually insane to hear it talked about so long ago
How do you get all these postcards? Estate sales? Never knew this was a thing but I love it.
Love it
26:38 Phrasing!
I've heard that picture of the elephant building was a brothel that people coming to the US could see before they could see the statue of Liberty. 😊
The same guy built a bigger Elephant on Coney Island a few years later, but it burned down. I think that was the one you're referring to. They talked about it on an old episode of the TV show QI, which is how I heard about it. The one in New Jersey is actually still there.
Could also be minute as in small pronounced "mine oot". In reference to minute vacations.
Thanks
Good he mentioned the leather ones being not allowed now, I was all ready to go write one 😂
One of my pastimes is getting old postcards and putting new postage onto it and getting it delivered
Nice!
it's just a living apartment building on the Russian postcard. Leningrad is a Soviet name of Saint-Petersburg. This postcard is from the 60s. I don't know why they made such, but my granny also had some postcards just with pictures of streets
Lovely
the stamps are so cool too
Here's a little fun fact about postcards: until 1907 (in the US at least) you could only write the address on the back of postcards, that's why some of the old postcards didn't have any messages on the back (people sometimes wrote short messages on the picture side, that's why some old postcards have a small white border along the bottom of the picture)! :3
You've got a Leatherman cave! @4:13
I recently sent my friend a wooden postcard so we'll see how the postal services handle that
1:07:30 I wonder if Esther told Golda she might tear her dress open and lose her buttons... in whichever context that came up between female friends in 1910.
1:11:22 I think they either meant 1812, or that hotel was built 4 centuries before columbus....
It's from Oxford in the UK; Columbus has nowt to do with it.
he seems to really enjoy this
More, please
I feel like I'm friends with Trinidad Tim now 😂
and with this I've watched every dsa vid
👍🐿😎