California Southern Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where the Labrador current collides

where the Labrador current collides with the Gulf Stream and shipwrecks accumulate like sediment

A Gilded Age trophy hauled across the Atlantic by Vanderbilt money

The Singeing Apparatus of Poindexter Victorian Hair Burning Device Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

and Fourth Street greeting cards bright with the bustle of a bourbon town

Living rooms

California Southern Frame Style:Bourbon Frame where the Labrador current collidesCalifornia Southern arrives sun bleached and palm fringed orange groves stretching toward the San Gabriels, mission arcades cooling in adobe shadow, and the Pacific breaking white along Santa Monica's pier. These linen postcards trade in eternal afternoons, when Pasadena rose gardens and Hollywood Boulevard marquees were still the stuff of mailed wonder. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s