This vintage chrome postcard titled “Greetings From American Royal, Kansas City, Mo.” features two scenes associated with the American Royal celebration in Kansas City, Missouri. The upper image shows a floral parade float traveling along a downtown street lined with spectators. The float is heavily decorated with red, yellow, and white flowers and greenery, and carries several young women wearing formal dresses and sashes, likely pageant participants or parade royalty. A motorcycle escort rides alongside the float. Visible storefront signage includes Dunlop Tires and L.C.O. Distributors, situating the scene within a mid-twentieth-century commercial district. The lower image depicts a mounted parade procession moving through downtown Kansas City, with riders on horseback proceeding along a wide city street bordered by multistory commercial buildings and dense crowds gathered on sidewalks. Storefront signs such as Shon’s and Davidson’s are visible, reinforcing the downtown setting. The American Royal, established in 1899, is an annual livestock show, horse show, rodeo, and civic festival that became one of Kansas City’s most prominent events. The postcard captures the pageantry, parade tradition, and urban atmosphere associated with the American Royal during the mid-1950s.

This vintage chrome postcard titled “Greetings From American Royal, Kansas City, Mo.” features two scenes associated with the American Royal celebration in Kansas City, Missouri. The upper image shows a floral parade float traveling along a downtown street lined with spectators. The float is heavily decorated with red, yellow, and white flowers and greenery, and carries several young women wearing formal dresses and sashes, likely pageant participants or parade royalty. A motorcycle escort rides alongside the float. Visible storefront signage includes Dunlop Tires and L.C.O. Distributors, situating the scene within a mid-twentieth-century commercial district. The lower image depicts a mounted parade procession moving through downtown Kansas City, with riders on horseback proceeding along a wide city street bordered by multistory commercial buildings and dense crowds gathered on sidewalks. Storefront signs such as Shon’s and Davidson’s are visible, reinforcing the downtown setting. The American Royal, established in 1899, is an annual livestock show, horse show, rodeo, and civic festival that became one of Kansas City’s most prominent events. The postcard captures the pageantry, parade tradition, and urban atmosphere associated with the American Royal during the mid-1950s.

This linen-era postcard depicts the original terminal complex at Akron Municipal Airport in Akron, Ohio. The airport, which opened in 1929, served as the city’s primary commercial aviation facility prior to the development of Akron–Canton Regional Airport. The terminal building shown is a low, horizontally arranged brick structure with Art Deco influences, including a central multi-story control tower topped by radio masts and observation platforms. Exterior stairways lead to a rooftop promenade, a common design feature of early municipal airports that allowed visitors to observe aircraft operations. Prominently illustrated above the field is a U.S. Navy non-rigid airship (blimp), marked “U.S. Navy,” reflecting the era when naval airships frequently appeared at public events and over municipal airports in the 1930s. Akron was historically associated with lighter-than-air aviation due to the presence of Goodyear’s airship operations and manufacturing facilities in the city. To the right of the terminal is a hangar marked “Air Services Inc.” with a single-engine, high-wing monoplane parked in front, representative of general aviation activity typical of the period. The paved apron occupies the foreground, with landscaped grounds visible beyond the buildings. The caption at the top margin reads “AKRON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT, AKRON, OHIO.” The lower left margin credits the image to “Photo by Stivas Studio.”