A Woolworth Variety Store and Sav-On Drug Store located at Fourth St. & Pine St. in Long Beach,CA. The landscape has drastically changed (for the worse) since this beautiful postcard was published.
Also visible,
JJ Newberry, SH Kress, Penneys, and Walker's Department Store.
Tags: Woolworth Sav-On Long Beach Newberrys Penneys Kress
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Pring's Coffee Shop located at 24895 Mission Blvd. in Hayward,CA. The first Prings Coffee Shop was located at 15015 East 14th St. in San Leandro which opened in 1951 with only twelve stools at the counter! Johnny Pring soon expanded his restaurant to include a complete dining room which proved so successful that he opened his second restaurant in Hayward. Unfortunately the Hayward restaurant didnt do so well and closed in the early 1980's. The San Leandro location still did quite a good business but eventually it too closed but not until 2002. Once it closed the City of San Leandro lost one of their iconic businesses.
The full postcard...
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A Honda dealership now sits on the site of this restaurant.
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Firestone "Americas Home for Car Service". This was a postcard thanking a customer (dont know the person so I wont disclose his name) for their business. The postcard was signed by the store manager and simply shows "a better time in the past" when people could be trusted (especially) when it came to your "Firestone Dealer".
This postcard was sent to Alabama (I cant read the writing for the town) with a zipcode of 35220.
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Chevron Gas Station postcard "Thank You for letting us service your car". These postcards were also sent as a reminder for "when your car needs to be serviced". This postcard was sent from Mike Reynolds Chevron Service located at 601 South Vista Del Mar in Manhattan Beach,CA. This Chevron is still open but the courtesy postcard notices are likely no longer given out.
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