"A bathing beauty contest was held in 1935 in Rockaway.  My mother, Frances George, is the second girl from the left with a sash that reads, "Miss Germany."  Mom was just fifteen at the time.  She told me that she didn't win."

         This is a postcard.  For many years, Bruce wondered why his mother's picture was on a postcard.  The answer to that question was real-picture postcards (RPPC).  His research on the internet led him to find hundreds of RPPCs, which showed life on the Oregon coast from a hundred years ago.  He created his Postcard books from his large collection of RPPCs.