Nowadays, you may get a White House postcard published in Milan, Italy, or an Ohio view printed in Australia, Ireland or Singapore. National Postcard Week was initiated in 1983-84 by the late Dee Dee Parker and John McClintock, who met when he spoke at a card collectors' banquet in Cleveland. Mrs. Parker's husband, Richard of Westlake, was then president of the Western Reserve Post Card Society. McClintock, from Manassas, Va., and the late Bernie Stadmiller of Melbourne, Fla., scheduled the first international postcard show at Palm Bay, Fla., in 1976. That is two miles south of Interstate 480.
Food is served.
Jay Traner of Strongsville, formerly of Alliance, is exhibits chairman. Show theme is Events of the 20th Century. More than 30 dealers will come from this country and Canada. Carl and Rose Mary Green of Silver Lake will be there. Since Green retired from Goodyear, they sell cards at shows from St. Louis to Florida.