In anticipation of our upcoming vacation, here are a few old Cape Cod postcards (plus an ad), generally from the era of my long-ago youth, taken from my completely-out-of-hand postcard collection...
This is the Sands Motor Lodge, where we pretty much always stayed. It was pretty much located close to many of the places we liked to visit - Granville Beach, the penny candy store, Hyannis, etc. This motel, as with many others, is long since gone having been torn down to make way for the mall and many, many, many shopping centers.
The aforementioned town of Hyannis. This photo taken well before my time but, except for the cars, looks similar in flavor...
Here are a few motels, none of which hold any special attachment to me - other than the fact that they were familiar sites. The ones taken at night, in particular, hold an amount of nostalgia for me. I've written here somewhere long ago about how magical it felt, as a little kid, to be riding around this area of the Cape at night. Of these, I only know for sure that The Windrift is still there (we still drive by it). I can't say about the others...
And finally, here's a postcard of the oft-visited Barefoot Trader (along with an old ad I found God-knows-where). I think it was in the same long ago blog entry mentioned above where I talked about how, as a little kid, I felt like the gift-store-loving visitors to the Cape were divided into two groups - those who liked the Barefoot Trader and those who preferred Treasure Island. We were definitely Barefoot Trader people - and I have a sense that we looked down on those families who preferred Treasure Island.
I've yet to find a postcard of Treasure Island (though the building still stands). I believe the the Barefoot Trader building is finally gone, having slowly devolved into a real estate agency among other things...
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