This Group celebtrates Boring, ordinary, dull, commercial Postcards that feature aspects of our everyday life – such as streets, roads, houses -- and are, in a strange way, interesting because they are so uninteresting. Join in and share your Postcards of our Boring world.
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From time to time we have outbreaks of whether a Postcard is Boring, or not.“Yes it is”. “No it isn''t.”“All Postcards are Boring.” “All Postcards are interesting”.And so on, and so forth.So, LET'S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENTAnnouncingINTERESTING…Continue
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Zielona Góra (Grünberg in Schlesien) a city in the western part of Poland, celebration of the grape harvest festival, postcard from the 1980s.
Zielona Gora is known as the Polish capital of wine. It used to be the northernmost area in Europe with grape cultivation. The likely beginnings of the city's wine-making traditions date back to 1150, when settlers from Franconia arrived in Zielona Gora and brought cuttings and wine-growing skills.
PART 2 OF POSTCARDS OF SALASPILS CONCENTRATION CAMP FROM ILYA SEMENK-BASIN -- MANY THANKS ILYA!
"The Salapils concentration camp was the largest place of imprisonment and mass-scale extermination of people in the hitlerite-occupied Baltic [Latvia]. During the camp's existence -- from October 1941 to October 1944 -- both there and at the Soviet war prisoners' camp which was situated nearbye, more than 100,000 people were killed including about 7,000 children."
7. Site of the former gallows
POSTCARDS OF SALASPILS CONCENTRATION CAMP FROM ILYA SEMENK-BASIN -- MANY THANKS ILYA! (Part 1 here, part 2 to follow later).
"The Salapils concentration camp was the largest place of imprisonment and mass-scale extermination of people in the hitlerite-occupied Baltic [Latvia]. During the camp's existence -- from October 1941 to October 1944 -- both there and at the Soviet war prisoners' camp which was situated nearbye, more than 100,000 people were killed including about 7,000 children."
0. Memorial statues
1. Monument to the Soviet Prisoners of War
2. Interior of the Salaspils Museum
3. "Beyond this gate the earth moves"
A BORING POSTCARD FROM "DOWN UNDER" -- YORK, WESTERN AUTRALIA FROM HELEN AYMES -- THANKS HELEN
"This postcard is from our news agency. It's the only postcard in York where I live and I think it's pretty dull," writes Helen, about what sounds like a not very exciting place to live . But the York Roses are nice.
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