Category Archives: Postcards

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: National Park Gateway Towns

For every Yellowstone there is a West Yellowstone, a “Gateway Town” of tourist services and diversions that is the commercial opposite of the natural splendor preserved within the boundaries of an adjacent national park.

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Toffenetti’s

This 1940s postcard suggests Toffenetti’s 1,000-seat “Cathedral of All Restaurants” was synonymous with New York and New York with Toffenetti’s, which was largely true to Times Square visitors of the Postwar era.

DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Main Street

It was a challenge to affix Main Street signage to pre-Modern buildings because the architecture got in the way.