BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Raphael Nadolny on April 22, 2024 at 5:29pm

Pojezierze Kaszubskie - (Kaszëbsczi Ùbrzég) is a fairly elongated region. The eastern border is the Baltic Sea coast, and it is located in the administrative area of Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia. Postcard about 1970.

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on April 11, 2024 at 3:21pm

Giżycko (Lötzen) - a city in the Warmian-Masurian province, the seat of Giżycko county and the rural municipality of Giżycko (former in german Ostpreussen). The city is located between lakes Kisajno and Niegocin. Giżycko is called the capital of sailing in Poland. Postcard about 1970.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 10, 2024 at 3:31pm

TWO BORING POSTCARDS OF HOLIDAY INNS, FROM PETER WILSON -- who writes "I cannot imagine that receiving these would make the recipient want to visit either of them". Anyway, THANKS, PETER!

1. Holiday Inn of Cleveland East, Ohio, USA

Peter says that this is in a 'pretty awful neighborhood', and wonders if the Holiday Inn still exists. I don't think it does. But when it did it offered "Swimming Pool -- Air-conditioned (air-conditioned what?) -- Restaurant -- Free TV -- Free Hoiday Reservations".

Sadly they couldn't afford a photographer, and this is a not very good drawing of the Inn.

(Aside on the Inn's  "Free TV". There was once a pub in England that had a board outside offering "FREE SEX EVERY NIGHT" in big capitals. On closer inspection there were some important very small letters added to it, viz: "FREE wifi SEXually seperated toilets EVERY NIGHT open until 23.45)

2. Holiday Inn of Duluth, Minn, USA

This one -- oh dear, another drawing -- offers "TV and Radio in every room [including the bathroom?] -- Beautiful Cocktail Lounge [as opposed to an Ugly Capital Lounge? Oh dear again, I've got the Holiday Inn Capital Letter Fever] -- Indoor Swimming Pool"

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 5, 2024 at 3:44pm

A FRENCH EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT

1. Draguignon Ecole Normale d'Institutrices'Normale'? Is there,  I wonder, a school for the abnomral, subnormal, or otherwise different in Var, France?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 30, 2024 at 4:22pm

THANK YOU CLEMENTINA CADERA FOR THIS BORING POSTCARD OF SORENBERG, SWITZERLAND

'Here's aBoring Postcard of a village where tourism made all the houses look pretty much the same', says Clementina

Reminds me of the 'Little Boxes song, of which here is the first verse:

'Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same'

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 27, 2024 at 9:52am

EMPTY HALL AT FRANCE'S AEROP0RT DE MARSEILLE-MARIGNANE (with large plant)

Comment by Mick Boyle on March 19, 2024 at 2:25pm

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on March 19, 2024 at 1:29pm

Kalisz - market square and surroundings of the city (Goluchow castle and roadside inn), postcard from 1975.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 19, 2024 at 10:37am

BOTTOMS UP! PLANTING RICE IN LA CAMARGUE, FRANCE

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 18, 2024 at 3:52pm

LE LAC DE MATEMALE, FRANCE

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