DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: El Solano Hotel
The linen postcard with its soft hues, picturesque edits and eye-catching graphics was the perfect medium for image-making.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Bell’s Tourist Camp
On this 1930 postcard, Bell’s Tourist Camp shouts out to U.S. 71 motorists coming into Texarkana from the north.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Jersey Mall
When Viennese architect Victor Gruen designed Minneapolis’s Southdale Center, he never suspected these retail mega-generators of auto-sprawl would replace the town centers he was trying to celebrate.