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I'm a postcard guy.  Sending postcards to people is something that I find joy in doing when we are traveling.  I send them to my Mom, Nat's Grampy, my friend Matt and others.  They're harder and harder to come by these days as people just don't send postcards like they used to - from travel destinations or ordinary places.   I've been thinking about creating my OWN postcards to send.  I try to send hand-written notes to people from time-to-time, but those are on my own personalized correspondence cards.  A post card, from a place, is different.  I've long wanted to send postcards from Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.  But, alas, they don't exist.  I've also thought about Downers Grove ones.  And, University of Illinois ones.   That lead me to Ebay.  Where, you can find vintage postcards from all of those places:  Twin Lakes, Downers Grove and the University of Illinois.   Fumbling around on Ebay recently, I came ...

We've been going to Disney's Boardwalk since for ten years now ( here's a post showing our first visit, I think...back in March of 2012)  and have come to really love and appreciate this resort area of Walt Disney World.  Sure, the Magic Kingdom resorts have the monorail, the electric water pageant and Magic Kingdom Fireworks.  But the Epcot resorts have walking-to two parks, the Skyliner and the Boardwalk area.  On a recent walk around the Boardwalk, I came across this sign that is situated right on the border between the Yacht Club and the Swan and Dolphin bridge that evokes one of those old-time-y vacation postcards.  It has a cute Walt Disney World Resort postmark on the top, even.  But, the part that jumped out to me was the copy in the red bar across the bottom:  "Come to the Showplace of the Shore".  That's a new-to-me tagline for the resort area.  See the signage below: A quick spin around the Google machine shows me, however, that is...