Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: benches

Dapper Double Dude

10 Nov 2024 3 137
A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of double or triple exposure . A well-dressed fellow poses -- twice! -- at a bench in the back yard for this double-exposure photo. This is a real photo postcard with a divided back and a type of Azo stamp box (with four corner triangles pointing up) on the other side that suggests a possible date that may be as early as 1907 to 1918.

Decoration Day: The Story of the Flag

27 May 2016 2 1 1076
"Decoration Day. Story of the Flag. C. Bunnell." This 1908 postcard for Decoration Day (now called Memorial Day , of course) is unusual for its humorous take on the holiday. The illustration of a couple kissing behind a flag is quite a contrast to the depictions of monuments, gravesites, and soldiers that typically appeared on Memorial Day postcards in the early twentieth century.

Do You Know I Love You?

29 Dec 2014 4 2 670
Do you know I love you . . . since we're both orange people in a world of purple?

Try This on Your Piano

19 Aug 2014 6 1130
A Bamforth real photo postcard with a punning caption. Another Bamforth card, Ain't Marriage a Cinch! , makes use of the same wallpaper:

Green Benches, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1950s

28 May 2013 2 2 1152
This 1950s-era slide shows some of the famous green benches of St. Petersburg, Florida, which was known at one time as the " City of Green Benches ."