A vivid linen-era postcard showcasing the Ship Cafe in Venice, California — a beloved Southern California landmark built to resemble an ocean liner, complete with twin masts, rigging, colorful nautical pennants, crow's nests, and porthole windows, set against a warm orange-and-blue sunset sky. Published by E.C. Kropp Co. of Milwaukee (catalog no. 5064), this unused card retains its full linen-print color. The Ship Cafe was a distinctive fixture of the Venice waterfront and is now long gone, making surviving images of it sought after by California and LA-area collectors.
Unused and never mailed; front colors bright and vivid with good linen texture. Back shows light toning and faint spotting on the left half, a handwritten 'Save' notation in blue ink at top, a pencil price mark, and a faint pink rubber-stamp impression at lower right — all typical dealer/collector handling marks.
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