Denver Postcard Club

03/25/2026

Our next meeting of the Denver Postcard Club will be held on Sunday, April 12 at the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library, Annex Building located at 2048 S. Pontiac Way. Doors will open at noon for early postcard shopping. Meeting begins at 1:00 PM.

Our program will be presented by author, Elizabeth Fox who will be sharing stories with us from her book, "We are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Story in Love Letters".

The book tells the story of a first-generation Jewish American couple separated by war, captured in their own words through letters exchanged from 1943 until the end of the war. The book is edited and annotated by their daughter, Elizabeth Fox.

Come join us for an enjoyable afternoon!

03/04/2026

The March meeting of the Denver Postcard Club will be held this Sunday, March 8 at the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library Annex Building, 2048 S. Pontiac Way, Denver. Doors open at noon and the meeting begins at 1:00 PM.

Our presenters this month will be from the Colorado Button Society. Kathy Buono, CSBS Vice-President, and Angela Flanagan, CSBS President, will present and overview of button collecting that will include history, interesting facts, button competitions, how to date a button, different materials and an invite to the annual show coming up in April.

There will be several displays, a “poke” box full of buttons and door prizes!!

Join us for a fun, interactive button presentation.

The postcard theme of the month is clocks. Bring a card of a clock to share, or find one while browsing through the club boxes!

See you on Sunday!

02/07/2026

Join us on Sunday, February 8 for our next Denver Postcard Club meeting. Doors open at noon and meeting begins at 1:00pm.

February Speaker Spotlight: Wes Brown
Program: How the expeditions of Pike, Long, and the Spanish Put Colorado on the Map.

Wes Brown has been a collector of old maps for forty years with special interest in the exploration and settlement of the West and Colorado from the 16th through 20th centuries. A Denver resident, he co-founded the Rocky Mountain Map Society in 1991 that continues a monthly lecture program to this day.

Wes has served as the Co-Chairman of the National Map and Geography Society of the Library of Congress and on the board of several other societies promoting the study of maps. He is a frequent speaker at map and history conferences and has published many papers on maps. Wes fell in love with maps at age 16 using U.S. Geological Survey maps for climbing mountains.

Reminders:
If you have not yet paid your dues for 2026, renewal forms will be available for you to fill out and submit your dues to Jen.

Theme of the month is Hearts. Bring a card from your collection or find one in the club boxes to share.

There will be new boxes of donated cards for your browsing pleasure.

See you on Sunday!

02/07/2026

01/07/2026

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Join us this Sunday, January 11, for our first meeting of the new year!

Doors open at Noon and the meeting begins at 1:00pm.
There will be no presenter this month, but there will be many new club boxes to look through.

Our show and tell theme this month is a postcard that was postmarked in 1926. You can bring one from your own collection or maybe find one in the club boxes!

It is also time to renew your club membership for the year if you haven't done so already. And, if you are new to the club or will be attending for the first time, you can join at the meeting!

If you have acquired any new postcards for your special collections that you'd like to share, bring them to the meeting.

REMINDER: The Denver Postcard & Paper Show will be held on January 16 and 17 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. Admission is $5.00 or $4.00 if you show the attached card for the show.
There is also an early bird admission for a fee of $20.

Hours: Early Bird ($20 admission) Friday - 10am
Friday regular admission hours: 11am-6pm
Saturday 9:30am - 4Pm

See you all on Sunday!!

11/05/2025

Join us this coming Sunday, November 9, for the monthly meeting of the Denver Postcard Club.
Meeting will be held at the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library Annex Building, located at 2048 S. Pontiac Way, Denver.

Doors open at Noon and the meeting begins at 1:00 PM.

November's them for the month is "Thank you". Bring a card from your collection or find one in the club boxes where the message has the phrase "Thank you."

It is also that time of year to be thinking about your membership renewal. If you'd like to go ahead and renew now, fill out the membership form that was attached to the email with newsletter and bring it with your annual dues to the meeting.

Also, mark your Calendar for the December Holiday Party to be held on Sunday, December 7. Details will be given at the November meeting.

AND NOW, FOR THE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PROGRAM FOR JANUARY!

November Speaker Spotlight: Stuart Collins
Topic: DeDisse Ranch and the Evergreen Lake

This upcoming presentation explores how the City of Denver acquired the DeDisse family ranch in 1919 and transformed it into Evergreen Dam and Lake—constructed specifically to control devastating seasonal flooding from the Bear Creek watershed. But there is much more to this story than simple flood control.

This is a narrative that weaves together the personal saga of the pioneering DeDisse family who homesteaded 390 acres in 1860,
Denver's desperate need to protect its citizens from deadly floods like the 1896 catastrophe that killed 27 people, and the
city's ambitious Progressive Era vision to create a mountain parks system stretching from Denver west through Golden to Echo
Lake. At the heart of this grand plan stood the flagship park: Evergreen Dam and Lake.

Our speaker, Stuart Collins is a professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Purdue Global University. Stuart instructs a number of history and political science courses. He is also President of the Evergreen Mountain Area Historical Society (EMAHS). EMAHS recently successfully moved the Buffalo Park School from a local elementary school to the town's recreation district's campus
(Mashdale). Now, EMAHS will lead a community fundraising effort to restore the 1880s school, enabling it to serve as an educational resource.

10/09/2025

REMINDER:

Please join us this coming Sunday, October 12 for our monthly meeting. Doors will open at noon and the meeting will begin at 1:00pm.

Author David Forsyth will be presenting on Denver's Manhattan Beach Amusement Park. Forsyth is no stranger to the Denver Postcard Club. He presented previously to us, about Lakeside Amusement Park. Let's give him a welcoming return this Sunday!
Check out this link to CPR news (2024), when Forsyth was interviewed about his latest book.
https://www.cpr.org/2024/03/16/the-lost-history-of-denvers-manhattan-beach-amusement-park/

Don't forget - the show and tell postcard topic for this month is cards with tourist cancellations or auxiliary markings! (inspired by Steve's presentation last month).

We look forward to seeing you there! Guests are welcome!!

Today, Denverites still stroll around Sloan’s Lake but most of them probably don’t even notice the small plaque that marks its past.

07/01/2025

Wishing everyone a safe 4th of July. Don't forget the Denver Postcard and Paper Show will be happening on July 18 and 19 at the Holiday Inn Express in Lakewood (Hampden & Wadsworth).
Hope to see you all there!

06/05/2025

Please join us on Sunday, June 8 for our last meeting before we break for Summer.

Doors will open at Noon. This will be a "lunch & look" session! We have 80,000 + cards in our inventory so there are plenty of cards to look at! Bring cash or check for your purchases!

Our own Beth Tallmadge will be our June speaker.
Topic: A Post-Pandemic Obsession – Finding duplicate
postcards from a book!

What did you obsess about in 2020 and after? One thing for me was finding out that an Irish cousin-in-law was a co-author of a fascinating Irish history book, so I made sure to put that on my Christmas wish list. And then getting the book only to find
that nearly all the illustrations in it were American scenic postcards!

In 2019, the book Douglas Hyde: My American Journey was published. It is based on the journals of Douglas Hyde, who would become the first president of Ireland in 1938. In the 1880s, Hyde formed the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language (the Gaelic League), which encouraged de-anglicizing Ireland. Over eight months from Nov 1905 to June 1906, Hyde and his wife traveled the US, meeting with Irish American organizations, immigrants, and enthusiasts to fundraise on
behalf of the Gaelic League.

While on that tour, Hyde and his wife sent dozens of picture postcards back home to Ireland, making sure to have the recipients save those postcards for posterity. Now saved in a museum near Dublin, many of those postcards were included in the book to illustrate the nature of the challenges that Hyde met along the way,
including being in San Francisco just before the earthquake and fire of April 1906, and what he did afterwards.

After reading the book (or at least the part that’s in English – the
second half is in Irish Gaelic), I got the crazy idea to search for as many exact duplicates of those postcards as possible to make
an album for myself.

I’ll share a summary of the US tour that
Hyde took, my collection of the 33 (out of
34) postcards that I bought over a course
of 2 years which match those in the book,
as well as sharing my family connections
to the co-author.

Official book description:
First published in Irish in 1937, this collection of journal and diary entries is a compelling first-hand account of Douglas Hyde’s eight-month fundraising odyssey through the United States from 1905 to
1906. Published for the first time in a bilingual edition, complete with newly discovered archival material and extensive illustrations, this book navigates Hyde’s thoughts on his journey in their original
Irish, accompanied by a faithful English translation.

This sounds like an interesting hobby and search for Beth!

A reminder that our postcard theme of the month is Lamp Posts. Bring a card/cards that show a lamp post.

There will be no meeting in July but do plan to attend the Denver Postcard and Paper show on July 18 & 19 at the Holiday Inn Express in Lakewood and the Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair, on August 15 & 16 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock.

There will also be a summer picnic in August. Date TBD!

Our regular monthly meetings will resume in September.

See you on Sunday, June 8!!

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05/03/2025

ATTENTION: DENVER POSTCARD CLUB MEETING WILL BE HELD THIS SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2025 - ONE WEEK EARLIER DUE TO NEXT SUNDAY BEING MOTHER'S DAY!

Time: Doors open at noon. Meeting begins at 1:00
Program: Our own Lee and Jane Whitley will be sharing information from their latest book, Cherry Creek: A History of the Valley

You will learn about the gold discoveries, stagecoach lines, a railroad, floods, dams, and a canal/irrigation system supporting cherry orchards on land known as the Clark Colony. These have all contributed to the rich history of the Cherry Creek Valley.

Today, the 42-mile-long Cherry Creek Regional Trail provides access to many historic sites along the creek.

If you have any postcards featuring military/veterans to share, be sure to bring them.

We look forward to seeing all of you on Sunday!

04/10/2025

WELCOME SPRING!!

Please join us on Sunday, April 13 for our next postcard club meeting. Doors open at Noon and the meeting begins at 1:00 PM.

We have a great program lined up for this month.

April Speaker Spotlight: Laurie Algar
Topic: Growing Up Disney

Laurie Algar, daughter of Disney Legend, James Algar, presents "Growing Up Disney" about her father's 43-year career as Animator, Producer, Director with Walt Disney Studio: winner of nine Academy Awards and Director of such classics including Bambi and Fantasia.

Laurie's talk features vintage photos, original animation model sheets, memos from Walt, Disney memorabilia, and personal letters (never seen before by the public) written during the creation of Snow White, Bambi, Fantasia, and the True Life Adventures.

SEE YOU ON SUNDAY!!

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