BORING POSTCARDS

OHIO IS NOT THE ONLY PLACE THAT HAS BORING AIRPORT POSTCARDS -- HERE'S ONE FROM SCOTLAND -- with a nice selection of British cars from the 60's

Over to you Peter...

Hello VMH,  You posted the Zanesville Airport postcard twice, and skipped the Cleveland Airport postcard.  (Not that the Zanesville postcard isn't worth posting twice!)  PMW in beautiful Ohio, USA.

HELLO PMH. Sorry about that.

AND HERE BOYS AND GIRLS IS THE BORING CLEVLAND AIRPORT POSTCARD FROM PETER

"Located 6 miles east of Zanesville with modern facilities offers to the SE Ohio area --passengers, freight and charter services as provided by Lake Central Airlines and SE Ohio Air Service, Inc"

INTERESTING POSTCARDS IF YOU ARE A SHEEP OR A SHEPHERD, BUT BORING POSTCARDS IF YOU ARE NEITHER

1; 'The shepherd ad his sheep', France

2. Transhumance: Arrival at Bonperrier

'Transhumance' is not some sheep re-gendering programme butis when the sheep are moved up to the mountains, and back down, again to graze.

'Bonperrier' is not some sort of special Perrier bottled water

I have counted 589 sheep here: please can one of you verify that number? Thank you.

AND ANOTHER THREE FROM KATERINA

1. The 1896 Olympics Marle Stadium, Athens,

I ran in this Stadium (in 1986, not 1896). Compared to modern track and field stadia (?) it has an unconventional shape  - 2 very long straights, and two very short bends. I saw a group of athletes traing there and joned in. After running a few laps, I was getting used to the long straights and short bends, but then I was asked to leave as I was not a member of the training group. So I went and ran elsewhere

2. Partial view of Carystos, Greece

Michael, row the boat ashore.

I wondet what the full view of Carystos is like?

3. Paleocastritsa, Greece

No sign of Michael

AND ANOTHER THRE FROM MIKEL

1. Eglise de la Chaise-Dieu, La Haute Loire, France

2. Picos de Europa: Desde el Monte Subiedes, Spain

3. Abbaye Cistercienne de l'Escaladieu, Bonnemazon, France

TWO OLD BORING POSTCARDS OF SIGEAN, FRANCE (where I live)

1. The College

2. Fun and games outside l'église

TWO OLD BORING POSTCARDS OF CAMPSITES IN SIGEAN (where I live)

It’s so much fun to look at so many boring postcards.

I’m glad to see my cards here & know they can be seen by lots of people. 
thanks got this group Val

mim

full view? of Carystos:

or Karistos (as we say here :-)

Boring postcard... on its way to Sigean!

Ha!Ha! Katerina. Funny comment!

MAYBE THE COWS  AND/OR THE HERDSMEN DON'T FUND THESE POSTCARDS BORING.... and if you really want something to do count the cows

1. Cows grazing in the Pyrenees

2; Cows grazing L'Auvergne, France

PICKING TIME IN PROVENCE, FRANCE

1.Vendange -- grape picking

I picked grapes once. It was enjotyable, but hard work

2. Lavender picking

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.