For my birthday this year, my friend Chelsea got me a vintage motel postcard from the Flamingo Motel. On top of it being a great gift, it made me remember my collection of old travel postcards. After digging them up I scanned them and posted them here for everyone to enjoy.
Rob, motel cards have such an allure for me. I've always found them strangely haunting. In the early 90's I frequented a store in Victoria B.C. that had a ton, many for 10 cents! I must have ended up with several hundred. Now I think I need to drag them out again. Great post! Neil.
Hi! I see you have done a hard work collecting so much Motel postcards in this blog, it's impresive pal, well done and keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing!
Robert Mars’ artwork chronicles an evolving fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and celebrates the icons of the 1950’s and 60’s
by taking inspiration from this culture long past. Through the application of a rich color palette and tongue-in-cheek attitude, Mars’ paintings evoke a
vintage quality of design and pay homage to the idealized age of growth and hopefulness that was prevalent in the USA at the end of the Depression.
A time before the internet and mobile technology, where information was not instantly available to millions and there was no such thing as instant internet
celebrities, and instead people lived with the myth of the unique, untouchable and unforgettable personalities of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James
Dean, Audrey Hepburn and Elvis Presley.
Mars’ work is exhibited with the likes of Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, and Robert Rauschenberg,
and has been shown worldwide including galleries in Munich, Tokyo, Amsterdam, London, Australia, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Paris, Aspen, and Bulgaria.
Rob, motel cards have such an allure for me. I've always found them strangely haunting.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 90's I frequented a store in Victoria B.C. that had a ton, many for 10 cents! I must have ended up with several hundred.
Now I think I need to drag them out again.
Great post!
Neil.
Hi!
ReplyDeleteI see you have done a hard work collecting so much Motel postcards in this blog, it's impresive pal, well done and keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing!