Old Postcards: Owensboro Kentucky

I am still on an old postcards kick. I especially like the ones that show some of my favorite places. I REALLY appreciate the old linen ones that look like small paintings. You could frame these with a nice mat and they would look great. Some book stores and coffee shops have scanned old postcards and printed them several times bigger for wall art.

Here are a couple more postcards I found recently (courtesy of the great stamp shop in Louisville on Dupont Circle).

The top one shows the familiar bridge in Owensboro.

"The Owensboro, Kentucky Bridge over the beautiful Ohio River, opened for traffic in June, 1940, has direct connection to Indiana Route 66 and 45 to Evansville, Ind., Chicago, Ill., Rockport, Indianapolis, Ind. and Louisville, Ky. It is the shortest route between Indianapolis and Nashville, Tennessee."

The card showing downtown was sent through the mail. It is postmarked 1955, from Owensboro, sent to a friend in Maryland (I think there is something really exciting about a postcard, bought in the area, probably spending little time in that area, and then, decades later, finding its way back to that area!).

"County seat of Daviess County- was settled as early as 1977 and incorporated in 1817. The present population is about 40,000. Located on the Ohio River, Owensboro is 114miles west of Louisville, Kentucky and 40 miles east of Evansville, Ind. The trading area is about 235,000 people."