Sentence examples for postcard industry from inspiring English sources
One series chronicles the history of the postcard industry.
Things we forgot we already knew: the postcard industry is dying.
Boomtown in Black and White It is easy to see why Midland does not support a postcard industry.
At the same time, the picture postcard industry took off — sales were 850 million a year by 1910 — and allowed access to an unparalleled selection of foreign views for pennies apiece.
Lauder collects sports postcards, fashion postcards, war postcards, advertising postcards, celebrity postcards, industrial postcards, and history postcards, mostly lithographs or vintage photographs, by known and unknown artists alike.
With the demise of the country's oldest postcard publisher, is the industry now a write-off – or are reports of its death premature?
For all the creativity driving local industry, the postcard of Burbank is unfortunately the Stalin-esque statue of Dr. Burbank at convoluted intersection through which drivers are so busy trying to make their turn lane they hardly notice.
Thanks to the rise of French tourism in the 1920s and '30s — spurred by the popularization of the automobile, the introduction of paid vacations for the working classes and waves of Francophiles visiting from America — picture postcards were a booming industry in Yvon's day.
Tourist agencies, postcards and a national nostalgia industry promote lush fields, mossy rectories and village greens as a platonic ideal of England, far from the grimy streets and crowded houses of the big urban centres where most people actually live.Despite their hold on the national psyche England's small band of genuine country-dwellers are feeling ignored.
The cars, a picture-postcard element of the city's tourism industry, carry riders to and from Fisherman's Wharf, up and down steep hills, and to the pier where boats depart for Alcatraz Island.
"The Highlands are a force of nature not to be parodied, but the use of Highland scenes and tartan on shortbread tins and of Edinburgh Castle on millions of postcards is largely an invention of the tourist industry".
