A Box of Postcards

by MJ Malleck// You may have noticed that I often find the “Canadian” connection when I am researching these postcards. Today I found a few. This is a card of the Ocean Dunes Motor Inn on 74 th and 75 th Ave North Myrtle Beach South Carolina. “Hi, Enjoyed our trip thanks to your people. The food here is just great. We are eating like kings. The golf courses are just great. Ted has played every day and I go out twice. Club houses and homes something to see. Weather cool but sunny. Getting a good rest and feeling great See you Thanksgiving. L. Ted & Bonnie.” There is no date, but the American Flag stamp (8 cents) is from 1971. And the mention of Thanksgiving makes me think this trip is taking place in September. I found an Ocean Dunes Resort and Villas, and a current photograph that looks almost exactly like this postcard. Now it is called the North Shore Oceanfront Hotel. Daily room rates are from US $69 to $500 for the Penthouse.   I wonder if by CLUB the writer means

MJ Malleck// This postcard was sent to Owen Sound from Barbados in February, perhaps in 1968. We are enjoying the beautiful weather, hot with a glorious breeze all the time. Have “done” the island pretty well by car, the shops on foot and persuaded the men to take “the ladies” night clubbing occasionally. Pleasant fellow resorters. Went to a service in a little old Methodist Church on Sunday. Have seen the two O.S. nurses who have come down for a year to hospital here. A Bien tot. Grace and Al   The front is “Ruins of an old sugar mill with blooming frangipani tree in foreground” from the beautiful pictorial book “Barbados” by Hans W. Hannau.  The book was published in 1966 and had captions in English, French, German and Spanish.   Grace and Al were at the start of a trend, because in the 1970s Canada was the largest source of tourists to the island. In 1979 for example, about 97,000 Canadians visited. I have not been able to find out about what kind of an exchange program