This vibrant mid-century "Greetings from" card offers a collage of summer life at Point Pleasant, New Jersey. The multi-view design features five distinct scenes of coastal leisure: sunbathers on the dunes, families enjoying the calm riverfront beach, swimmers in the Atlantic surf, and a tranquil sunset over the water. This card carries a nostalgic personal message from "Hannah," who describes a "delightful holiday" with Carl, capturing the simple joy of a pre-war Jersey Shore vacation.
Era: Linen 1930s (1939)
City: Point Pleasant
State or Region: New Jersey
Country: USA
Topic: Multi-View Greetings, Beach Scenes, Summer Resorts, Americana
Condition: Circulated (Postmarked Sep 1, 1940)
Postage: None (Stamp removed)
Address Side: Divided Back
Orientation: Horizontal (Landscape)
Publisher: Curt Teich and Co.
Printer: Curt Teich and Co., Chicago
Print Type: C.T. Art-Colortone (Linen)
This postcard was sent from Point Pleasant on Labor Day weekend in 1940 to Miss Sadye A. Beaver in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The sender, Hannah, mentions the "very fine" weather and that the trip was "all too short a time." The 1940 postmark perfectly anchors this high-quality "Art-Colortone" card in the era just before the United States entered WWII.
