Glass House, Vinita, OK. America! The Future! Dining on an overpass! How modern! "Beautiful place to eat," Hazel wrote on the back of the card. Indeed it is; We should have these places every 40 miles on every freeway.

Pictures like this tell you why modernism had such a long run in America - who wouldn't want to live in a future that looked like this? Great cars, spacious roads, and see-through restaurants.

This might be the only postcard on this site drawn by someone with art in the Metropolitan Museum, the Smithsonian, and other venerable locales. Charles Banks Wilson. There's more - click onward.