California How it Once Was

Part 1 of a few more specimen from my postcard collection

Reference is made to the below posting (which contains links to more such postings with old postcards):

A Few Postcards from Old Istria

Part 1 deals with the oldest postcards in my collection, and while I’m quite certain that they are pre-WW1, I think they date from after the 1906 earthquake.

Enjoy, if you will.

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Arriving in California

This theme has remained virtually intact over the 20th century.

San Francisco How It Was

Note—clean streets, well-dressed people, and no fentanyl addicts.

As we learn from Wikipedia, the St Francis Hotel had only two wings before the 1906 earthquake.

Golden Gate Park

There’s perhaps no better way to close out this posting than the ‘Portals of the Past’ theme.

Stay tuned for the next instalment of California How it Once Was…