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(NOT A CHRISTMAS) BORING POSTCARD FROM JOHANNES GROSS, GEVELSBERG, GERMANY
Shulzentrum West, Gevelsberg
Except you can't see much of the school -- just the top stories and roofs of two buildings. Half of this Boring Postcard features trees. A quarter, some cows that, to me, are more interesting as the three right-facing ones seem to be almost identical, and I wonder if they were cut outs posed here to make the card more interesting.
(Alternative title: 'Gevelsbe'rg Cows'?)
Thanks Johannes, welcome to the Group, and please keep sending me Boring Postcards
Województwo Częstochowskie - Częstochowa region - postcard form the mid. 1960.
Town Częstochowa is located in south part of Poland. Its most famous place - the Monastery of the Pauline Fathers at Jasna Góra Monastery with the image of the Virgin Mary - is visited by millions of pilgrims from 80 countries around the world each year. A peculiar phenomenon on a global scale are foot pilgrimages with which even over 200,000 pilgrims come. The longest routes are over 600 kilometers long, and it takes up to 20 days to cover them.
Sztum (German: Stuhm) - a city in northern Poland. The most attractive monument in Sztum is the 14th-century Teutonic castle, the seat of the Teutonic mayor and the summer residence of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. From the original design, the southern range, the entrance and prison towers with the defensive walls have remained. The remaining buildings on the castle hill come from the 19th century.
A housing estate is shown on a postcard from 1978.
FOUR BORING POSTCARDS FROM JEAN-PHILIPPE GILLIOT: thanks J-P!
1. Greetings from Westende, Belgium
A strange one. The left-hand photo features an empty baby-carriage thing (but no baby), a fat lady in a white dress, and a man taking a leak on a red lamp post. The other photo appears to be a beach scene, but there is no beach, and the sandy area is dominated by a large building. And then there is a green car on a pole (originally, it was at beach level, but a man came along, took a leak on it, and, like Topsy, it grew).
2. Hotel Savoy, Madeira
"My home away from home", it says on the back: discuss. Also rather strange, because you can't actually see the hotel, just a pool-side changing room. And that waiter seems to be rather too attentive -- but perhaps that's why she has come away from her home.
3. A stately drawing room in a Belgian castle
A publicity card for the Belgian magazine La Maison d'Hier & d'Aujourdhui. Yesterday for sure
4. A Belgian Castle
Rowy - "Thaiti" cafe in an adapted old torpedo boat. A tourist town (formerly a fishing village) located between Łeba and Ustka among pine forests on the Baltic Sea. There are 2 summer swimming pools at the seaside. The Rowy West swimming area has a total length of the coastline of 400 meters and 4 descents to the beach, while the Rowy Wschód swimming area has a total length of 200 m and 1 access to the beach.
Postcard send 1975.
Poznań (Posen) - postcard edited about 1985.
Description on the reverse of the postcard: the city of Poznań International Fair; industrial, scientific and cultural center. A city of remarkable beauty of monuments, splendor of buildings and greenery. Panorama of the city, Mikołaj Kopernik Roundabout, Classicist Guardhouse, reconstructed Town Weight House, Renaissance Town Hall, Center - Red Army Street. "
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