sorry please click here to view it! http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/4020/floridaqq9.jpg

Well, it's not the same font, but it kind of reminds me of a heavily modified Serif Gothic Heavy.

These postcards were hand lettered.

"The Land of Sunshine" reminds me of Las Vegas Fabulous from House Industries.

thanks for your replies!
would you say all these style postcards were hand lettered?

view images of other similar postcards here....... http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3425/picture1fc4.jpg

thanks again.

I would say that you could find similars and with some Illustrator handywork come awfully close. Most likely, your samples were done by hand.

You might find this thread of interest:

http://www.typophile.com/node/10844

thanks for that link. very useful. think i might just get the old and paper out and draw that way!

thankyou.

I did a freeware font based on this kind of lettering named Vacation Postcard; you can get it here...

The "none more black" section of our extra bold font list has a few that might work. But I agree that hand lettering is the way to go.