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Vintage Greeting Cards: Get Well Soon

April 23, 2023Memories, Series, ThingsFound items, get well, mom, sunshine card, vintage greeting cardsDona

Get well soon cards are kind of stupid. Most people don’t send cards to others when they have a cold or the flu, but for more serious illnesses — and people don’t always get well soon in that case.

Just a Note (A Sunshine Card)

I thought this was a no-occasion card until I read the inside more carefully. I like this one — it doesn’t instruct anyone to get well soon.

Just a note. Color illustration of female playing piano with visible music notes rising from the piano as a white poodle looks on.

Can't get there to tell you in person -- So I thought I would drop you a line to tell you I hope you're lots better and soon will be feeling just fine!

No front greeting (A Sunshine Card)

This card is very 70s. It is unusual for a Sunshine card in that there is no illustration on the back. This card wouldn’t really fly today. People are no longer encouraged to tell others to “cheer up”.

Color illustration of female holding an umbrella and wearing a hat on which birds have perched. A dog hides under her rain poncho.

Here’s hoping your sickness blows over (card company not specified)

I remember this card from my childhood. It’s silly and glittery. And what about that “An” instead of “and” on the inside? What’s that about?

Here's hoping your sickness blows over. Color illustration of a man blowing up a balloon, wearing a hat with 5 cents written on a sign on the hat.

....An that you'll soon be on top of the world again! Get well. Color illustration of same man, holding several balloons being lifted through the air above tall buildings.

Vintage Greeting Cards: No occasion

April 22, 2023Memories, Series, ThingsAmerican greetings, Found items, mom, sunshine card, vintage greeting cardsDona

Along with the birthday cards my mom had were these “just a note” cards.

Hello! (card company not specified)

I like this one and will probably use it someday.

Color illustration of a woman wearing a green dress and talking on an old telephone. Text: Hello!

No special reason or season. No news or gossip 'n' such. Just felt like saying "hello" today. And keeping in touch. color illustration of old fashioned phone with the words "hello! Hello!" coming from the speaker.

Best Wishes (a Sunshine Card)

Best wishes is usually reserved for birthdays but I suppose you can wish someone best wishes on not-their-birthday.

Best Wishes. Illustration of a cart of different colored pansies.

Nothin' new -- And nothin' clever -- Just thinkin' of you. The same as ever!

Just to Say Hello (American Greetings)

This is so 1970s!

Illustration of female in fancy dress looking at herself in a hand mirror

Vintage Greeting Cards: Birthday

April 13, 2023Memories, Series, ThingsAmerican greetings, birthday, Found items, mom, vintage greeting cardsDona

My mom had a box of greeting cards that, as a child, I loved looking at. Some were funny; some were saccharin sweet. Looking at them now, some are insensitive.

Today I’m going to upload the birthday cards.

A Birthday Greeting For Our Mother (American Greetings)

This is a saccharin sweet one. Reading it hurts my teeth a little. I really like the illustration though.

A birthday greeting for our mother. Ink drawing of a corner in possibly Savannah GA or New Orleans LA with a colorful flower cart in the foreground — Front

Though we sometimes take for granted all the nice things that you do, your words of praise, your helpful ways your love -- and even you. There's nust no moment in the day No day in all the year when you're not loved and wished the joys You hope for, Mother Dear — Front

Birthday Greetings (card company not specified)

This one is not as pretty as the one above, but also not as sugary.

Birthday Greetings. Illustration of a bouquet of pink, red, and white roses

Remembering you on your birthday and wishing every happiness today and always.

On Your Day, Mom (American Greetings)

This one is insensitive, I think. It’s obviously about someone from a rural area, possibly in the hills and/or South. Using the word “ain’t” and misspelling poem and sure continue the myth that those people are not smart.