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CLUB HISTORY Recollections By
Founding Member Larry Seymour, July 2005 The Dallas Metroplex Postcard Club got started in June 11, 1983, as a neighboring club to the Cowtown Postcard Club in Fort Worth, started in 1954. Jack Thornhill Sr. founded the club along with James McMillin. McMillin also founded the first postcard club in Texas, The Lone Star Postcard Club and then The Cowntown Club. They and 33 other postcard dealers and collectors of cards, met at the George Dealey Recreation Center to organize the non-profit club, June 11. Of those 35 present, Larry Seymour is the only member still very active with the Club. The first official Club meeting was held, September 21, 1983, at the Walnut Hill Recreation Center. Meetings have also been held 3 times in a church, in members homes for special holiday parties and at the Farmers Branch Library for 15 years. The club then met for a while at Timberglen Recreation Center in Dallas, Texas. Currently the club meets on the second Saturday of every month at 2:00 P.M. at First United Methodist Church in Garland, Texas. The address is 801 W. Ave. B. No meetings are held in July and August. Club membership is currently 56. There have been many club sponsored postcard shows and sales inviting dealers from across the country to sell their cards. Founder Jack Thornhill Sr. organized the shows for many years. For the shows, Club members prepare postcard exhibit boards that display their cards, featuring a variety of subjects. Postcard dealer and show promoter Jim Taylor started handling the shows in the year 2000. There are now 2 shows per year. One in the spring, which the club co-hosts, and one in the fall. Information about the shows can be obtained by email: postcards@courthousequare.net, or on the website: www.courthousesquare.net. Lots of extra special postcard presentations at the meetings have been prepared by members sharing their postcard interests and knowledge of what they collect. There are show and tell sessions helping everyone learn more about values and general information about postcards. Also buying, selling, trading and giving away cards at some of the meetings. No one has ever regretted getting involved with the Club. Joining the Dallas Club or any club is educational, informative and fun. It is unbelievable how many postcards relate to and parallel other collecting interests. There is a postcard for anything you can think of and probably many places and cities you have visited. There is an annual membership roster, listing all members and their collecting interests. A free reference library and free annual Christmas buffet. Current annual membership fee is $10.00. You are invitied to come
join the club! For more information
about the club contact Gregg Hammond, email: inkwell1212@yahoo.com. |
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