5. Postcard from Tulsa - "Carousing at Cain's"
"The Carnegie Hall of Western Swing" is just one of many titles that have been bestowed on Tulsa's famed Cain's Ballroom since its opening in the 1920s. It was from this stage that Bob Wills helped in...
4 Aug 202228min
4. Postcards from Roadside Oddities - "Totem poles, whales, slug bugs and Cadillacs!"
From "The World's Second Largest Rocking Chair" in Cuba, Missouri, to "The Leaning Water Tower of Groom, Texas," Route 66 boasts no shortage of roadside oddities that are all great for a stop, snap an...
21 Juli 202230min
3. Postcard from Miami, Ok - "A foreign field that is for ever England”
Entering the town of Miami, Oklahoma on Route 66, you'll pass the GAR Cemetery. A resting place for over 20,000, its director Nancy Bro is quick to say that each one of their graves holds a life that ...
7 Juli 202232min
2. Postcards from Quapaw, Gallup and Lupton - "Pottery and Patriotism"
Among the titles it's earned, Route 66 is often hailed as "The Main Street of America." But America is a lot of things and absent from many of its popular myths and legends are the stories of those wh...
23 Juni 202228min
1. Postcards from The Mother Road - "The Roots of Route 66"
The name Route 66 has a certain kind of magic. For some, it calls to mind images of muscle cars and neon. For others, the words of Kerouac and songs of Guthrie. But how did this legend come to be, and...
9 Juni 202238min
Introducing: Vanishing Postcards - The Route 66 Season
COMING SOON! Named "One of the Best Podcasts You Should Listen To in 2022" by Digital Trends, Vanishing Postcards returns for a cross country odyssey on Route 66. From the plains of Oklahoma to the be...
17 Mars 20221min
Bonus - A Christmas Postcard, "Remembering Charles Kuralt"
Heralded as "The Walt Whitman of American Television," Charles Kuralt while sharing a drink with a cameraman aboard a 1967 flight high above Ohio sparked upon an idea. "By God," he said. "Next time we...
21 Dec 202113min
15. Postcard from Fort Worth - "Stockyard Songs and Stories"
In this final episode of Vanishing Postcards' inaugural season, we pay a visit to Fort Worth's famed Stockyards. A historic district where western identity is embraced without the slightest hint of a ...
28 Okt 202131min
