BORING POSTCARDS

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- THANKS YET AGAIN, MIKEL!

1.  Carnac, Morbihan, France: "Kermario" from 5,000 - 2,000 years BC

2.  Pico de Europa, Pena Vieja, Macri Central, Spain

3. "20mm: Bilder von Karsten Thiele', Berlin

Still unpacking from the move to Athens...

'guess who found a box of old postcards from "Aunt Min and Uncle Bill"?

Hotel and motel postcards in the USA were "free" in the rooms it seems :-)

More boring postcards on their way to Sigean soon.

"GENERAL VIEW" OF ANTIBES, FRANCE

It seems to me that it's a "General View" (nb only a 3-star General) of a boring plant with a little bit of out-of-focus Antibes in the background.

CASINO, ESTORIL, PORTUGAL

More flowers than the Casino, but if you don'r want to gamble....

SCENIC LAKE ERIE, CLEVEAND, OHIO -- from Peter Wilson

"Lake Erie is one of the major waterways of the St; Lawrence Seaway, also offering numerous excellent recreational facilities."

But not if you are a fish.

ANOTHER THREE FROM KATERINA...WHO HAS AN ENDLESS SUPPLY, ME THINKS

1.Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, Milwaukee, WIS

"Within the 3 glass domes of the new conservatory (Katerina got the card in 1979). The 3 vegetation promoting climates of earth (and temperate and tropical) are maintained for the display of an international collection of flowers and plants in natural settings. Displays include a walk through desert and a tropical rain forest."

(And a walk out, I hope)

2. Hyatt Regency Dearborn, Fairlain, Michigan, WIS

"788 Guest Rooms and Suites. 2 Ballrooms. Meeting Facilities for 10 to 1,500 people. 4 Lounges. 4 Restaurants. Equal distance from downtown Detroit and Detroit Metropolitan Airport and adjacent to historic Henry Ford Museum and Greenland Village."

(And Lots of CAPITALS)

3.  Winter Frolic Skating at Park, Rib Mountain in background, Wausau, WIS

"RELAX IN WISCONSIN Where Friends and Nature Meet."

(And Capitals too)

Piotrków Voivodeship - one of the 49 voivodeships that existed between 1975 and 1998. The voivodeship was located in the central part of Poland, lying on flat land forming the southern part of the Mazowiecka Lowland, partly the northern part of the Lesser Poland Upland and to the west a small part of the Greater Poland Lowland. Postcard from 1976. 

ZEPPELINS OVER PARIS (with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page?)

1. Paris -- La Pont Alexandre et les Invalides

2. Paris --Le Pont Neuf et la Cité

I DON'T  THINK MUCH OF MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT. I WANTED A NEW BIKE, BUT ALL I GOT WAS A BOOK. A BORING ONE AT THAT.

TWO OLD AND BORING POSTCARDS FROM LATVIA COURTESY OF EVA AMITY -- Paldies, Eva!

'This is Latvia, 1960', says Eva about these new appartment houses in Veemilgravis, Riga

REALLY, REALLY EXCITING CACT/CACTUSES POSTCARDS!

From the 'Exotic Garden of Peintre Majorelle, Marrakech, Morocco

From the 'Curate's Garden', Elouja, Spain

A 'GENERAL VIEW' OF THE VILLAGE OFGINESTAS, AUDE, FRANCE -- but you can't see much of the village, but there is lots of dried up grass and a leaning-over tree in the foreground, and in the middle a vineyard, and then....a bit of the village....and then mountains and sky; (1/10 for compoisition of Boring Postcard)

COWS, TREES,  MOUNTAINS -- from Austria

ANOTHER EXCITING DAY FOR GRANDMA IN RURAL FRANCE

And then stuffing the geese....

THE PORTLAND VASE (First century AD), BRITISH MUSEUM,  FROM AWYN

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA

1. Conrad Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. "Never just stay. Stay inspired"

(I won't stay here. I'll just stay inspired wherever I happen to be)

2. Picos e Europa, Spain

3. Five Boring bits of paris, France -- not Texas -- al on one postcard

YET ANOTHER THREE FROM MIKE LUNTZILLA -- THANKS AGAIN!

1.The Queen's Bedroom, Versailles, France

Hélas, Her Majesty didn't have a bed in her bed room.

2. Papamoscas, Burgos Catghedral, Spain

3. Garganta de Cares, Spain

SNCF (French national railway company) CENTRE DE LA BORNE BLANCHE, ORRY-LA-VILLE, FRANCE

1. Le Hall

2. Le Salon

3. La Bibliothèque

Radom - a city with county rights in central-eastern Poland, located on the Mleczna River. Despite being administratively part of the Mazovian Voivodeship, historically, culturally and ethnographically Radom and its region are an integral part of Lesser Poland. The largest urban center in the forks of the Vistula and Pilica rivers, the second largest city in the Mazovia province. Prior to 1795, it was a royal city in the Radom district of Sandomierskie province. In the Polish People's Republic, from 1975-1998 the seat of the Radom province authorities. Postcard from 1976.

Biala Podlaska - a city with county rights in eastern Poland, in Lublin Province, the seat of Biala County and Biala Podlaska Municipality. In 1975 Biala Podlaska became the capital of the province, which contributed to a doubling of its population in 20 years. After the administrative reform in 1999 it has the status of a city with county rights.

Postcard from 1970, district clinic.

TWO SPANISH HOTELS -- from el Val

1; Benicarlo Hotel Sol, Zaragoza, Spain

2. Hotel Dania Park, Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife, Spain

'Tis the season for boring holiday cards?

some boring "wooden" stuff:

Christmas postcard from 1952. Printed during the Stalinist regime in Poland. It reflects the break with the Christian/Catholic character of these holidays. Therefore, attached is a photo of icebreakers on the ice-covered river. 

Hi! Jimmy Connors

Yes it is difficult to decide whether a Postcard is Boring or not. One (of a hotel, for example) may be; but a group of hotel postcards may not be. Please send me what you've got, and I'll give my 'expert' opinion on their Boring-ness. But, they must be commercially sold Postcards, and no collages, drawings etc can be put on them. Thanks; Val

Antoniuk - a residential area in the northern part of Bialystok. It includes residential neighborhoods: Przyjaźń (in the 20th century it existed as a separate settlement) and Sady Antoniukowskie, which are not administrative units. Since the mid-1960s the area has been developed with modernist blocks of flats. A postcard from 1971.

LENINGRAD 1970 -- SOVIET ERA POSTCARDS, PART 1 -- FROM ILYA SEMENKO-BASIN -- MANY THANKS ILYA!

1. Statue of the famous Russian navigator I. Krusenstern

2. The Smolny

3. Near the Rostral Column

4. St. Isaac's Square

5. The 'Yubilelny' Sports Palace

Christmas postcard sent in 1977. Another example of production during the communist era in Poland, when attempts were made to detach Christmas from its religious context. A postcard of a completely secular nature. But such postcards were also produced in Western capitalist countries.

LENINGRAD 1970 -- SOVIET ERA POSTCARDS, PART 2 (of 3) -- FROM ILYA SEMENKO-BASIN

6. The Comedy Theater

7.Winter Palace, the Hermitage Museum

8. Griboyedov Canal

9. Bell Tower of St Nicholas Cathedral

10. Sverdlov Embankment --bforer coutry house of A Bazhenov and G. Quarenghi

LENINGRAD 1970 -- SOVIET ERA POSTCARDS, PART 3 (of 3) -- FROM ILYA SEMENKO-BASIN, AND THANKS FOR ALL OF THEM ILYA!

11. The Admiralty

12. Equestrian statue of Peter 1 (by E.M. Falconer)

13. The Neva

14. Pavilion of the Anichkov Palace 15. Sphinx from Ancient Thebes, Egypt, on the University Embankment

(One thing I find strange about these Postcards -- and indeed many others from the Cold War era -- is the absence of people in them. Where ere the Soviet, Hungarian, Polish etc citizens, and why weren't they shown on the Postcards?)

Postcards from smaller towns in Poland during the communist period often showed new housing estates built up with blocks of flats. Two examples from the 1970s.

Krapkowice.

Łabędy.

Christmas postcard from 1975.

BORING CHRISTMAS PÖSTCARDS FROM KATERINA -- THANKS, AGAIN -- THE FIRST FROM GREECE, THE OTHER THREE FROM BULGARIA

Glad they arrived ok :-)

...more "boring" coming for the New Year !

Christmas postcard from 1975. The use in this postcard of a figure of a dragon holding a lit candle in its mouth is interesting.

 A SUPER BORING 1931 POSTCARD -- COCOA BEANS FROM GUADELOPE

Christmas postcard from 1970.

Thanks, Val !  

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- many thanks once again!

1. Miniatur-Welten von Karsten Thiele2.Castillo de Loarre (Huesca), Spain

3. Main entrance to the Cathedral at Clermont-Ferrand, France

"LE GRAND TOURNANT, LES MONTS DE CANTAL, FRANCE, FROM ANNE P

ANOTHER THREE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- THANKS ONCE AGAIN, MIKEL!

1. Pompidou Center, Paris, France

2. Tai Pak Floating Restaurant, Hong Kong

3. 'True Luxury...' or a real convertible (with back-seat dog)

""True luxury is the time we give ourselves to live in the setting we create for ourselves." Woof!

RECEPTION AREA, HEART CLINIC, BEAUMONT-DE-LOMAGNE, FRANCE

Braunschwieg, former DDR, stadthalle/town hall, postcard about 1970/1980

FROM CATHARI --" Famous secret weapons: Lt. Dubois et Nestor, his ally in combat"

Biała Podlaska, town in east par in Poland, postcard from 1988.

MAN AND PIG HUNTING FOR TRUFFLES IN LE PERIGORD, FRANCE

SOME BORING SPANISH POSTCARDS

1. Main Road 'La Marina', Elche, Alicante, Spain

2.Municipal Park, Elche, Alicante, Spain

3. Palm Trees in the Municipal Park, Elche, Alicante, Spain

4. A boring road in San Guim de Freixanet, Lérida, Spain

THIS IS FERDINAND ROQUES 'PREPARING' THE SKIN OF A FOX IN FIGEAC, FRANCE (I don't know what the fox was called)

Welcome Penelope,

I hope you will enjoy the Group and become an acgive paticipant.

Please send me some Boring Postcards -- my address is 1 rue de la Vieille Fontaine, 11130 Sigean, France -- and I will post them here and add them to our ciollection which is ging to be exhibited in two different locations in France this summer.

Merci beaucoup, Val

Val:

Thank you for the welcome!  I have many questions. Pardon my ignorance.

• When I send you boring postcards, do they need to be unused? 
• Can I mail several to you in an envelope, since it costs just as much to mail a letter with enclosures.
• One person’s idea of boring is another person’s idea of humor. I LIKE the man prepping the fox hide, and the man and pig looking for truffles. 🤭