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F
OR MORE THAN a century travelers have either documented trips and vacations
by the picture postcards they sent to folks back home, or they were collected as
treasured keepsake memo-ries.
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Down through the
years, postcards have
become historical records
of bygone scenes.
Clockwise beginning with the top
right card, a young lady sits in the
surf in a brown and white terrycloth
two-piece suit. Her deep brimmed
straw hat shades her 1960s flip
hairdo.
At the ocean end of Salisbury
Street at Wrightsville Beach, teen-age
girls pose for the camera on
the ramp of Johnnie Mercer’s Pier.
Eleven beautiful girls in
swimsuits line up at the water’s edge at
Wrightsville Beach in a card published by Jack Loughlin, who has had a long career photographing
and publishing postcards in the Wilmington area.
Bathers wade in front of Lumina Pavilion in a card postmarked June 8, 1911.
A 20s beauty in a wool tank suit with stockings and shoes seeks shade under a brightly colored parasol.
Children from the 1930s do what children at the beach do best, dig in the sand.
b y e l a i n e h e n s o n
with postcards from her collection
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