San Francisco Bay Area Post Card Club: www.postcard.org

04/08/2026

Schedule for NYC postcard shows.

03/20/2026

THIS SUNDAY! ONE DAY ONLY!
March 22, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Hal Lutsky's Vintage Paper Fair
Golden Gate Park, County Fair Building,
Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Way
Postcards, ephemera, photography, advertising, and much, much more!
Free Appraisals!
FREE ADMISSION!

02/25/2026

NEXT MEETING: FEBRUARY 28TH!

This Saturday's meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Post Card Club will focus on the Panama Pacific International Exposition!
In this year's annual PPIE meeting, author, lecturer, and collector Glenn Koch will discuss the rarest of the rare postcards of the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Come prepared to see postcards that you may never get the chance to see again!

THERE WILL ALSO BE DISPLAYS OF NOVAGEMS FROM THE TOWER OF JEWELS, AS WELL AS OTHER SOUVENIRS FROM THE PPIE!

Saturday, Feb. 28, from 12 PM to 3 PM at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, Building C, Room C-205. The meeting will be called to order at 1:00 PM and the program will follow.

There is an hourly fee for parking within the gates of Fort Mason Center, but upper Fort Mason (enter at Franklin and Bay Streets) and parking spaces along the Marina Green are free. Parking can be difficult, so come early and enjoy the Goody Cafe, Maritime Library, Greens Restaurant or amble through the community garden, because there’s plenty to see and do. We often gather before 11 AM at the picnic tables or in the exhibit area in Bldg. B.

01/22/2026

NEXT MEETING: KATHRYN AYRES ON THE POSTCARDS OF THE GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24. FORT MASON CENTER, BUILDING C, ROOM C-205. FREE! Doors open at 12:00; meeting begins at 1:00.
The fair was held to celebrate the opening of San Francisco's two new bridges. The Bay Bridge was dedicated on November 12, 1936; the Golden Gate Bridge was dedicated on May 27, 1937; and on August 26, 1937, dredging for Treasure Island, the site of the fair, was complete. The island was designed to be San Francisco's airport, and did briefly serve as such from 1939 through WWII.

07/04/2025

Happy Independence Day from the Roosevelt Bears
(Teddy Bears, get it?)

07/04/2025

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Post Card Club of New York City.

Happy Independence Day from the Roosevelt Bears
(Teddy Bears, get it?)

06/16/2025

He was best known for his success in business, notably the international beauty company he built with his mother, Estée Lauder. But he was also an influential art patron.

05/08/2022

An online exhibit of postcards from the collection of the Society of California Pioneers. Be sure to click to page 2.
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In 1867, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors drafted Order 800, an outline for the purchase and development of the city's westernmost expanse of land, the area dismissed as "the outside lands" or “the great sand dunes” on early maps. Their development plans included a

01/17/2022

Postcard of the Martin Luther King family, courtesy of the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City.

This cropped vintage postcard of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. & his family is making the rounds on social media this weekend.

01/05/2022

MUTTS cartoon for January 4th.

10/22/2021