BORING POSTCARDS

FROM MIM -- TOWER COURT, NM, USA

WHY CAN'T I SHOW THE ACTUAL POSTCARD, JUST THIS SILLY LITTLE SQUARE???

If you can see the Postcard, then here's the text....

"Duncan Hines Recommended". I have no idea who Duncan Hines is (so I wouldn't follow his recommendation).

Comment by Mim: "I always turn to cake mix for travel recommendations. Can't go wrong."

Comment by Val: "So Mr Hines has something to do with cakes."

About Tower Court:

"Your Home Away From Home... 16 Comfortable Units.... 14 Car Ports.... Tiled Baths.... Carpeted Wall to Wall.... Air-Cooled... Floor Furnaces... Radios... Convenient to Everything... etc, etc"

More comments by Val: Lots of Capital Letters....My 'Home From Home' doesn't have 16 Comfortable Units (or even 16 Uncomfortable Units')...Why are there fewer Car Ports than Comfortable Units?.... Convenient to 'Everything', or 'Anywhere'? It's not especially convenient for me at my Home that I am not Away From....etc, etc...

Thanks Mim!!

Ah ha! The Thumbnail has gone, a nd the pictgure has come back. Hooray!

YA! good to see that the images are fine!

THREE SERIOUSLY BORING ONES FROM KATERINA -- thanks once again MomKat!

1. The Milwaukee 'Mecca'

'Mecca' is a ' New downtown Exhibition Center with 212,500 square feet. A complete convention center near transportation. Restaurants. Shopping. Entertainment and Cultural Centers'.

AND Katerina went there on her trip to Milwaukee in 1979.

2.Karistos, Greece

3. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

(Extra marks if you can identify the plane.)

Seattle-Tacoma Airport became one of the Hubs of Delta Airlines,

so might be a 1970's Delta Jumbo Jet 747,

ah, the Queen of the Skies!

THREE FROM DARLINGTON, ENGLAND, (where i was born and bred)

1. Victoria Road, Darlington, 1903

2. South Park, Darlington, 1911

3. South Park Lake, Darlington, 1923

SUPERB BORING POSTCARD -- OF A BIRD IN A TREE -- FROM MIKEL U

THREE MORE FROM MKEL U -- and thanks again, Mikel U

1. L'Abbaye Cistercienne de Escaladieu, Bonnemazon, Spain

2. Esqui de Montana, Los Picos de Europa, Spain

3. Le Quai aux Fleurs, Paris, France

DO YOU KNOW WHO ED LABRASSE AND/OR VICTOR POULAIN WERE?

No?

Victor Poulain achieved fame by designing this roundabout on Boulevard Ed Labrasse at Stella Plage, France.

Their names and great works live on forever!

Pleasepleaseplease, Val, send that bird-in-tree card to me!!

Those birds ususally cannot fly well, so it is a mystery how the bird reached that high branch. A mystery to be solved, far from boring!

As a reward I will send you 4 boring postcards. Pleeeaaase!

It's coming your way Heleen the next time I go to the Post Office for a stamp. (I don't need a 'reward', but more Boring postcards always welcome to keep this Group going). Regards, Val

Jelenia Góra, Hirschberg im Riesengebirge Region in south-west part of Poland, postcard  edited in 1976. 

BITS'N'PIECES -- FROM THE DAVE CLARK FIVE, AND VAL

1. Albert Plage, Knokke, Belgium

On a sunny day yiu can see some fine knockers at Knokke Beach

2. Congratulations (from Holland)

For what, I know not -- but thanks anyway Heleen

3. A Reclining Century Nandin (C 7th)

It looks a bit tired, but there again it has been reclining for a long time.

4. Regional French Gastronomy: Grilled Salmon with butter

5. Haie-Sainte Farm, Waterloo, Belgium

More than just a boring building on a boring road (with a tram or train line running beside it), this farm was important in the German-French fighting at the Battle of Waterloo. When the fighting was over, the British took the building.

6. City Centre, Bucharest, Romania

Typical East European old Boring Postcard -- a few cars, no people;, clean buildings and lot of greenery.

7. Nevsky, Prospect, Leningrad, USSRA bit more to see -- cars, buses, some grenery, and a few people too

FOUR BORING POSTCARDS OF THE DISPOSAL CENTER OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE, l'AUBE, FRANCE

(I wonder why they would go to the trouble of issuing a series of postcards about the Center?)

EXTRACTS FROM CONVERSATIONS AT THE FRENCH NATIONAL AGENCY FOR THE PRODUCTION AND PROMOTION OF INTERESTING POSTCARDS

Day 1

M le Director (MleD: I asked you to come up with an interesting postcard of wine pickers at harvest time, and what did you preset me with? This Very Boring Postcard.

MleD: It won't do. It's boring, Jean-Pierre -- bring me something more interesting.

J-P (le photographer): OK boss.

Day 2

J-P: Is this one less Boring? It's called "Let's go to the grape harvest"

MleD: That's much, much better. And congratulations -- you've included some nice décolletage! Who is the smiling lady on the left?

J-P: That's no lady, Mle D -- that's my wife

*****

Postscript: the 'Allons...' Postcard became a best seller in France, formed the basis of a Netflix, er, flix, and had other comercial successes  J-P's wife was featured in Playboy and signed a movie contract. And, on the money they earned from this Postcard, Monsieur and Madame J-P lived happily ever after and never had to pick grapes or take photos ever again.

FRENCH MARMOT(TE)S [PRE-WALT DISNEY-ISATION]

Me thinks that bird is NOT in-the-tree,

but on the snow ground and we see it through a tree????

(still, it is not a boring postcard :-)

BORED SHEEP IN THE FRENCH HAUT-ALPES

Me thinks you may be right Katerina.

The question that still arises is why should this be on a postcard?

DING, DONG, PUTTING LETTERS ON A BELL (at the Paccard Fonderie de Cloches, Sevrier, France)

TRANSPORTING SUGAR CANE IN GUADELOUPE -- WHERE EVEN THE CATTLE LOOK BORED

A VERY UNEXCITING POSTCARD OF THE MAIN DINING ROOM AT THE RETIREMENT AND CONVALESCENCE HOME AT BACCARAT, FRANCE

Where are all the retired and/or convalescent people?

LES GORGES DU BRIANT, MINERVE,  FRANCE (or a bit of a road and some rocks, and who is Briant?)

BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!°:

A farm 'under snow' (and a hedge too that covers most ofthe farm), Rupt-sur Moselle, les Vosges, France(At the time of writing, it's far from cold here: 37° in the shade)

BORING HOTEL POSTCARDS FROM SARAH ROE -- MANY THANKS SARAH (will post your other ones soon)

1. Lobby, Hotel Harding, Maine, Ohio

2. Maryland Hotel, "In the Heart of the City", St. Louis, MO

3. Hotel Statler, Buffalo, NY

4. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel,  Montreal, Canada

5. The Nile Hilton,Cairo, Egypt

"Jewel of Egypt -- in a setting of modern luxury overlookig the ancient Pyramids. 400 air-conditioned rooms, all with terraces. Fabulous restaurants including he Starlight Roof for romantic outdoor dining dancing."

What luxury! What romance!

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL -- THANKS, THANKS, AND THANKS

1. Mar de Niebla Desde la Collade del Salce, Spain

2. Les Colonnes de la Nation, Paris, France

AND LAST, BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST, WHAT MUST BE ONE OF THE MOST BORING POSTCARD EVER.....

3. Naranjo de Bulnes, Cara Sur, Spain

NOT MUCH HAPPENING HERE  (soewhere near Strasbourg, France)

MORE BORING POSTCARDS FROM SARAH ROE -- THANKS AGAIN SARAH

1. National Stadium, Lisbon, Portugal

2. Olympic Stadium, National University of Mexico

3. Washington Monument, Washington DC, USA

"The Washington Monument is a stupendous shaft of granite, 655 feet 51/8 inchs in height. It is 65 squarefeet at the base, and terminates in a pyramid of pure aluminum. The foundatiobs of rock and cement is 35ft deep, 126ft square. The cornerstone was laid in 1843, the Monument was finished in 1885. It is the highest work of masonry in the world."

(This is an old postcard, and I suspect the last sentence is no longer true. Can someone please tell e what exactly is this a Monument to?)

4. General Motors Building, Detroit Michigan, USA

General Motors was a 4-Star General. Every time he got another Star, he got another building to go with it.

I was thrilled to know exactly where to send these when I found them! Thank you for sharing them. 

The monument is much more interesting on the inside: commemorative staircase might make an interesting set of postage stamps, hmm.

Sarah: more always welcome!

Katerina: I try not to Google things unless i really, really have to. In this case the information I was seeking should have been on the back of the postcard with the other information. But now I know so, merci

Sarah, agaiN; that's a good project for you. I'll stick with Boring Postcards....and Manhole Covers;;;;; for now (Look at the MANHOLE cOVERS gROP°;

Keyboard problems, Sarah...MANHOLE COVER LOVERS GOUP  Do join. Do send  m som photos.

MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS IN FRANCE

1. CANADIAN MEMORIAL, VIMY,  PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE

At first glance, I thought this was a golf course.

2.  NATIONAL MONUMENT, HARTMANNSWILLERKOPF, ALSACE,  FRANCE

It's a fine example of the grand pomposity of Americans to believe that everyone already knows what the Washington Monument is which lead to the lack of information about the picture on the postcard. On behalf of my countrymen, I apologize for our hubris about ... well, really, everything... sigh...

AUBERGE NEAR JEANMENIL, FRANCE

A strange Postcard. The auberge boasts a lake where you can catch trout. And a mini steam train. And a 'far-west' fort. And a play area (with slide). And some ponys. And even 'on demand' banquets!

But most of what you can see on the Postcard is a lot, an awful lot, of conifers.

BANG!    THIS IS A FRENCH 'CANON BITUBE DE 30 (with radar déployé)'  POSTCARD SENT IN 1975.   [I don't think we've had a miltary one before]

GATHERING RESIN FROM PINE TREES IN FRANCE

HOLIDAY CAMP/ VILLAGE DE VACANCES, AYEN, FRANCE (I don't think I'd want to spend a holiday there -- would you?)

PLACE DE LA BASTILLE AND COLONNE DE JUILLET, PARIS, FRANCE

Poznań / Poosen, city stadium (formely name: "of 22 July"), poscard produced in 1964. 

SOMETIMES I WONDER "WHY ON EARTH WOULD ANYONE MAKE A POSTCARD OF THIS?'"

What is it? It's a bottling plant in Vittel, France, where, circa 1975, 400 millions of bottled water were shipped out each year. I am still wondering "Why on earth....?"

Kalisz/Calisia - Breslau Turnpike - a former turnpike in Kalisz, at the junction of four main streets, built in the classicist style with a four-column Doric portico in 1828 to a design by Franciszek Reinstein.

Postcard about 1985.

A COMPLICATED FRENCH 'TRANSVERSAL' SYSTEM LNKING TWO CANALS IN ST LOUIS -ARZVILLER

(Technical details about the lock from the back of the postcards are available on request, but I hope you won't ask!)

SPANISH TORTILLA CREATION, WITH  TOMATO AND OLIVE SIDE SALAD AND RED WINE

(Recipe is on the reverse of the Postcard, but it's in Spanish, and you don't really want me to translate it do you? Good!)

Legnica Region - a unit of the administrative division of Poland, one of 49 voivodeships existing in the years 1975-1998, with the seat of the Region Governor and the Local Government Assembly in Legnica. The Legnica Voivodeship was located in south-western Poland, between the middle course of the Oder River and the Sudetes, in the area of Lower Silesia. The unit was established on 1 June 1975 as a result of a reform that replaced the three-tier administrative division of the country with a two-tier division. Postcard sent in 1979. 

PUT ON YOUR SILLY HATS, FOLKS, AND THEN WE CAN START ON THE BIGGEST CHEESE SANDWICH IN THE WORLD (well the biggest in L'Auvergne, France)

US HOTELS/ MOTELS FROM KATERINA -- THANKS ONCE AGAIN!

1. The Breakers Motel, Michigan

"Overlooking Lake Michigan on US 2, 2 miles East of Manistique, Michigan. Carpeted. Steam Heat with thermostat in each room. Courtesy Coffee - TV - Restaurant adjacent"

(Big on capitals, short of an apostrophe)

Katerina stayed there in February 1979

2. Hyatt House Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama.

"This hotel has an exposed glass elevator as shown on this postcard. Also this is one of Birmingham's major Convention Hotels."

Aunt ?? and Uncle Bill stayed there in summer 1985

3. Holiday Inn, Cherokee, NC

"Located on the Cherokee Indian Reservation at the entrance to the Great Smokies"

Katerina had lunch there in March 1985

(I wonder what those Cherokees were smoking?)

THREE FROM JEAN-PHILLIPE GILLIOT -- merci/bedankt J-P!

1. La Défense, Paris, France

2; A 'Traditional Thai House ... from the 4 regions of the Royal folk arts and crafts center. Bang Sai'. Thailand (where you might well find a traditional Thai house)

3.  'Death Railway Bridge'...'crossing River Kwai Kanchana, Buri Provence, Thailand'