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Looking through the postcards at the antique mall
One of my favorite sections of any vintage store is the postcards/photo sections. You can usually find used ones that are full of love, and if you are lucky, draaamaaaaa. Oh, the things people wrote to each other about is so silly sometimes. A real sign of the times. You can be entertained for hours. Sometimes there are multiple written by the same people, so you really get to know the skinny on what their lives were like. You do need to know how to read cursive though, because every single letter is in the most insane handwriting you've ever seen.
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@starlet
Feb 21, 2025
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@haileyd4wn
Once in a completely different state I found a postcard from my mom’s hometown of less than 700 people. What were they doing out there!!!!
Feb 22, 2025
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@worldonfire
one time my friends and i were looking thru the old photos at a thrift store and there was a very old one of a corpse, incredibly bad vibes
Feb 21, 2025
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@starlet
worldonfire WHATTT oh my god??? was it like an old-timey post-mortem photo, or just straight up a dead person with no contenct?
Feb 21, 2025
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@starlet
starlet *context
Feb 21, 2025
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@worldonfire
starlet just a body laying face down in the dirt in a sepia photo!! truly bizarre!! i don’t remember if my friend bought it or not but im 99% sure he did even though we all agreed it was cursed
Feb 21, 2025
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@starlet
worldonfire that is fucking traumatizing, sorry you had to see that!
Feb 21, 2025
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