I do a lot of shopping on eBay. Meaning that, while I don’t really shop a lot, when I do, it is often on eBay. I stumbled upon a great “vintage” post card of Old Garden Beach and ordered it…thinking that it’d be fun to frame it next to one of my own photos of the quaint little beach at the end of our street. My boys clocked some serious hours at OGB until this past summer when the lure of the bigger beaches came calling. I loved the idea of owning a little freeze-framed moment of how the beach looked years ago…with different little families dotting the sand years before mine came along. Warm fuzzies.
So, the post card has been tucked into a glass cabinet in our living room since arriving in the mail and it wasn’t until yesterday that I really looked at it. Now I’m trying to find out just how “vintage” it is. The people are actually kind of hard to see….and while they look like decades gone by….and while the post card itself is black and white…the houses along the beach wall and street up above don’t look much different than they do today.
The back of the post card simply says, “Published by Rockport Photo Bureau” and “Post Cards of Quality: The Albertype Company, Brooklyn N.Y.
I’ll have to do some research.
Good Morning Gloucester 
Those bathing suits say 1930s.
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love the then/now shots! Outfit was a big postcard producer. blank or split in two on the back? stamp? with the front white border– dates 1915-30
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the back is split in two by the words “Post Cards of Quality. The Albertype Co., Brooklyn. No stamp.
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Do you know the web site vintagerockport.com? They also have a facebook page. They post and sell vintage post cards.
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Just a wild guess, but it looks like it dates from the 1940s or maybe 1950s.
If you enlarge it, there’s at least one old-looking car in the background (1940s?). But of course, who knows how old that car was when the photo was taken?
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That would be from mid-to-late 1930s. That house at 3 Old Garden Rd. was built in 1930. You can see other old postcards of Old Garden Beach here: http://vintagerockport.com/tag/old-garden-beach/
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Yes! Finally someone writes about tiropita.
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I would say above late 30’s or early 40’s I saw mom in a photo and it was similar type swimming suits – could be wrong… funny how pretty much stayed the same with a few changes over the years. 🙂 Dave
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