T'boli's postcard collection
is stamped with diversity
By ANNE RAUGH
Stan Writer
There's a place in Chapel Hill
where you can find just
about any type of postcard
to convey any type of mood, emo
tion or message imaginable. It's
called Tboli.
T'boli sells postcards with
humor, such as a woman in a
bathing suit selling a jackhammer;
postcards with warmth, conveyed
through smiles, handshakes, child
ren, embraces and picnics with red
and white checkered tablecloths;
and tacky postcards picturing
chicken-shaped buses. Other post
card subjects include insanity, obes
ity, frustration, rain, lust, confu
sion, boredom, anger, heartbreak
and Happy 23rd Birthdays. The list
goes on and on.
Among the main topics of T'bo
li's postcards are contemporary and
impressionistic painters, photo
graphy, comedy, animals, writers,
composers, children, tackiness, tas
telessness and all types of seasons
and special occasions.
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, U nder questioning from congress,
Roddy said that she didn't think the
BSM would lose all of its funding,
and that some of the funding could
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from the spring budget process
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"If we waited for subsequent
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Bailey agreed. "They may substan
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Guy Lucas (Dist. 19), who voted
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"We say we shouldn't treat them
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jwe're, racists on this campus. They
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23 whites and one black cut their
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After the congress rejected Bailey's
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stood it.
"Whatever comments were made
by members at the meeting were
made without a full understanding
of the issue," she said. "The proposal
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Bailey to propose the bill.
After the meeting, Friedman
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John THompson, co-owner of
T'boli, claims to own one of the
largest and most varied postcard
collections in the country.
"IVe only seen one store in New
York City with more postcards
than we have," Thompson said.
Postcard collecting is the nation's
third largest collecting hobby. The
nostalgia behind postcards is the
people, memories and places they
freeze in time. . .
When T'boli first opened 10
years ago, Thompson intended to
sell only postcards. "We wrote to
700 museums all over the country
and happened to end up with
enough room in the store for other ,;
things," Thompson said
T'boli has over 8,000 different
cards which come from all over the
world. Thompson hand picks all of
his cards and changes them often.
"We were in Mexico a few
months ago and we picked up some
post cards in a village market,"
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offend others at the same time," he
said. .
Tacky cards are some of Thomp
son's best sellers. The tacky cards
are rarities. They come from eccen
trics and even from serious
designers who blooped along the
way. Many come from advertise
ments from the Os and '40s for
hotdogs, hairdos, Eureka easy glide
vacuum cleaners, wigs, cars and
refrigerators.
Most of the postcards are blank
but some are accompanied by
strange messages such as "Zorita
Lambert, the fearless woman who
eats electric lightbulbs with the ease .
of an apple," and "the man who
smokes through his eye."
Personalities range from Marlon
Brando to Pablo Picasso and from
Lucille Ball to Albert Einstein.
Thompson said he buys his most
unusual cards at stationery shows
in New York City, but finds that
his best cards come from card
stores run by local people in small
towns around the country.
"Humor and sex sell; beauty does
not sell. Happy sells; serious does
not sell," said Thompson.
"We encourage people to buy
postcards without messages instead
of greeting cards," he said. "On a
national average, greeting cards sell
better than postcards, but most of
the success of greeting cards is
attributed to the fact that many
people find it difficult to express
themselves. It's much easier to send
a printed message in someone else's
words rather than your own."
Thompson prefers the black and
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Robert Leath (left) and Steve Benton get a kick out of the
white photographic postcards
because they are more classic as
opposed to the colored paintings.
"Black and white preserve nostal
gia," he said. "They give you the
exact photographic images intended
by the artist at that time. Good
black-and-white postcards are
harder to come by and they tell you
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The United States was a late
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