Category Archives: Postcards

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: The Blue and White Restaurant

Postcards, UncategorizedBy SCA October 4, 2022

Constantine Spiridon and his two brothers opened the Blue and White Restaurant at 211 Liberty Street in downtown Warren, PA, in 1925. It was one and a half blocks north of US 6, certainly the coast-to-coast reference on this postcard showing its 1937 Art Moderne remodel.

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: New York City’s West Side Piers

PostcardsBy SCA June 15, 2022

A circa-1960 postcard shows New York City’s Transatlantic Steamship Terminal in the Hudson River between 44th and 54th streets …

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Cedar Tourist Court

PostcardsBy SCA April 2, 2022

Westward across the plains of Kansas, US 40 originally split at Manhattan with the south branch following the Victory Highway through Salina (current US 40), and the north branch following the Midland Trail through Clay Center.