What you are about to see are not film sets Stanley Kubrick thought too isolated for The Shining, or David Lynch considered over-egging the eerie for Twin Peaks. These are postcards from North American nursing home in the 1950s and 1960s.
We don’t get to read the messages on the reverse – ‘Wish you were here! (instead of me)’ – but we do wonder at the photographs these homes rejected, pictures the owners and marketeers thought failed to capture the true essence and warmth of the place.
Moosehaven
Foothill Acres Nursing Homes, Neshanic, New Jersey, circa 1965 – Advertising Postcard
Albright Manor, United Church Senior Citizens’ Home,Beamsville, Ontario
Moosehaven
Shouldice Hospital, Patient’s Lounge, Thornhill, Ontario
Masonic Home, Burlington, New Jersey
Foothill Acres Nursing Homes, Neshanic, New Jersey
Albright Manor, United Church Senior Citizens’ Home,Beamsville, Ontario
Shouldice Hospital, Patient’s Lounge, Thornhill, Ontario
Presbyterian House, Retirement Hotel, St. Petersburg, Florida
Foothill Acres Nursing Homes, Neshanic, New Jersey, circa 1965 – Advertising Postcard Via: Steve Shock’s Flickr
Masonic Home, Burlington, New Jersey
Golden Village, Hemet, California
East Longmeadow Nursing Home East Longmeadow MA Via William Bird’s Flickr
All postcards are from the SwellMap’s Flickr unless otherwise stated.
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