OT Postcard
 

I know postcards were all the rage in the early 1900's, but I can't figure this one out. What message are you trying to convey with this postcard? Is this meant for someone's mother-in-law? "Hi Ma, wish you were here!"

or maybe,

"It was a lovely trip, but we had a slight mishap on the way to Tulsa."

http://i811.photobucket.com/albums/z...pslneuhlxs.jpg

I think they are saying something like "Holy Crap, what the hell just happened?"

As most know, postcards were sometimes used as photographs back in the day and this one is quite the train wreck :). (pun intended)

Events of all types, large and small, were photographically recorded for posterity in that era, same as now. It served a function of not just snapping a moment in time, but as a means of sharing information by way of images at a time when newspapers from other places were generally hard to come by. This gallery illustrates the point: http://www.sportingoregon.com/p479278548

It's says, "Tulsa womans driving school"

Real photo postcard stock was often just used as the photopaper with no intent for the photo to be mailed. It was a standard type of factory made photopaper, whether or not the photo was going to be mailed as a postcard. The postcard printing on back came that was from the factory and was not stamped by the photographer after the photograph was developed. Real photo postcards were often used as postcards, but also often the equivalent of snapshots or candid family photos.

Postcards exist with every imaginable subject matter. Nothing special or unusual here.

Fascinating info about postcards. I never knew they were used as simply photo paper.

Even when you're trying to be funny around here you end up learning something!

I have my grandfather's selfmade snapshots from when in was in the Navy in WWI. They're on postcard stock but handcut into smaller snapshot sized photos. You can see the cutup postcard text on the backs.