Vintage Celluloid Hard Plastic Carnival Ducks

This week's favorite thing that I came across was a lot of old carnival or county fair ducks.  You know, the kind they use in the games where you have to ring one or shot one.  I see these ducks and smell fair fries, hear the carnies yelling 'hey over here', and can see the lights on the rides all twirling around at night.  The ducks themselves are pretty cute too, got a kind of 'Mario Brothers' expression, I think it's the eyes.  Nothing fancy, just old ducks in various colors.  They do have a bit of fancy silver paint detailing at the tails though.  When looking for similar ducks online, I didn't find any green ones, plenty of blue, pink, yellow, and red, but no green.  Not sure why.  Quack, Quack!

Early 1900's Cabinet Card Photo of Postal Workers

I really have a thing for old pictures.  I suppose it's just knowing that these people and places were real and their lives were so different.  My favorite thing today is an early 1900's picture of a group of postal workers. 

The photo was taken in Louisville, Ohio.  I'm able to date the photo to prior to 1914 because in 1914 the town paved Main Street for the 1st time and this picture is taken on Main Street and shows the old brick paved street.  Also, the Postal Service got motorized this same year.  Not to say that every post office dropped the horse and buggy right away, but.....

Photo shows the postal workers with their caps on, their satchels and stacks of mail, and their horses and buggies.  You can see the old time street lights above the center of the road, the old time electric lines with the ceramic insulators, and couple neat signs in the windows of the shop they're in front of, and horse poop in the road  lol. 

This picture is large, about 9x7 with the cabinet card being a few inches wider all around.  The image quality is fantastic.  The coolest thing about this photo is that if you go on Google maps and locate the 200 block of Main street (e main, I believe) in Louisville, and zoom into the 'street view' you can see the exact spot where this picture was taken.  It's a little different, the big electric poles are gone, the Post Office has moved, there's an ugly new car parked on the side of the road, the road of course has markings everywhere, but the 2 main buildings are still there.

Awesome photo!!