Antique & Vintage Postcards

A packed room of summer revelers in straw boater hats — servers and guests alike caught mid-laugh in a blur of red tablecloths and striped jackets — bursts from this vivid chrome card advertising the Oak 'n' Spruce Resort's rollicking entertainment lounge in South Lee, Massachusetts. The resort, nestled "in the Heart of the Berkshires," marketed itself as a full-entertainment destination, and this image of its bar room in full swing — with a band visible at the far end and portrait paintings flanking mirrored panels — captures the exuberant social culture of late-1960s Catskills-style Berkshire resort life. The card is unused, a promotional piece from 1968 by Bill Bard Associates of Monticello, New York, specialists in resort photography for the bungalow-colony and Catskills-adjacent leisure market.