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.
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.
Mielno (German: Großmöllen or Groß Möllen) is a town in northwestern Poland located on the Baltic Sea and Jamno Lake, on the Slowinski Coast. The city, with two summer seaside resorts and a fishing harbor, is one of the many resort complexes of the Polish coast. A postcard from the late 1980s.
WELL, WE ALL GOT DRESSED UP IN THESE SILLY FOLK-LORE COSTUMES AND CAME DOWN TO THE RIVER WHERE PAPA INSISTED ON PLAYING HIS ZITHER AND WE ALL HAD TO WEAR SILLY HATS.
Swinoujscie (German: Swinemünde) - a city and health resort in the northwestern corner of Poland, the northwesternmost city in Poland with a seaport and a bathing resort, located on the Swina Strait and the Baltic Sea, the only city in Poland located on 3 large islands: Usedom, Wolin, Karsibor, and dozens (44 in total) of islands and islets.
1. Nocturnal View, Rue del Villar, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
2. La Seine et le Pont Alexandre 111, Paris, France
3. Edelweis
Lyrics rom The Sound of Music:
Edelweiss... Edelweiss... Every morning you greet me Small and white, clean and bright You look happy to meet me Blossom of snow May you bloom and grow
Zwoleń - a town in Poland, in Mazowieckie Voivodeship, Zwoleń County, the seat of the urban-rural municipality of Zwoleń. Situated on the Zwolenka River, in the South Masovian Hills, historically in the Małopolska region. On a postcard from 1973, the building of the Municipal Office.
1. John J Donnelly Rocky River Nature Center, Cleveland Metroparks, North Olmstead, Ohio;
The Center is 'world-renowed for its ancient fossils'. And this is DUNK! -- 'the 360 million year-old Dunkeleosteus armored fossil fish unearthed in the Center's shale rock'.
Dunk like an occasional cup of coffee into which he duked his donuts...but that was at another place in Ohio where there is a Dunkin Donuts chain 360 million years later.
2. Pier W Cleveland's specialty seafood restaurant, Lakewoood, Ohio, USA
"You'll find more than you expected here. A stunning view of the lake and Clevland's skyline. Service so polished it's almost invisible. And a first-rate menu."
And a very ugly cantilevered restaurant building beneath a very ugly highrise. Maybe lots of architects go there for the view, the invisible service, and even the seafood.
SPOILER ALERT -- ADDICTION! WEIRD POSTCARD FROM FROM HELEEN DE VAAN (bedankt, Heleen)
It says: "The average person checks their phone 85 times a day.And you?"
Heleen reckons that this postcard is not just (or even not only) boring, but ugly - and I agree with her.
But it's interesting in it's own way -- a white, tattooed girl (I think) with a . big brown non-humanoid ear. Does this represent the future of politically correct (boring) postcards?
Heleen wonders what we did 15 or so years ago when we didn't have smart phones?
(I'm not smart enough to have a so-called 'smart phone.', and I only look at my antique phone about 4 or 5 times a day.)
THANK YOU CLEMENTINA CADERA FOR THIS BORING POSTCARD OF SORENBERG, SWITZERLAND
'Here's aBoring Postcard of a village where tourism made all the houses look pretty much the same', says Clementina
Reminds me of the 'Little Boxes song, of which here is the first verse:
'Little boxes on the hillsideLittle boxes made of ticky-tackyLittle boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same'
TWO BORING POSTCARDS OF HOLIDAY INNS, FROM PETER WILSON -- who writes "I cannot imagine that receiving these would make the recipient want to visit either of them". Anyway, THANKS, PETER!
1. Holiday Inn of Cleveland East, Ohio, USA
Peter says that this is in a 'pretty awful neighborhood', and wonders if the Holiday Inn still exists. I don't think it does. But when it did it offered "Swimming Pool -- Air-conditioned (air-conditioned what?) -- Restaurant -- Free TV -- Free Hoiday Reservations".
Sadly they couldn't afford a photographer, and this is a not very good drawing of the Inn.
(Aside on the Inn's "Free TV". There was once a pub in England that had a board outside offering "FREE SEX EVERY NIGHT" in big capitals. On closer inspection there were some important very small letters added to it, viz: "FREEwifiSEXually seperated toiletsEVERY NIGHTopen until23.45)
2. Holiday Inn of Duluth, Minn, USA
This one -- oh dear, another drawing -- offers "TV and Radio in every room [including the bathroom?] -- Beautiful Cocktail Lounge [as opposed to an Ugly Capital Lounge? Oh dear again, I've got the Holiday Inn Capital Letter Fever] -- Indoor Swimming Pool"
Giżycko (Lötzen) - a city in the Warmian-Masurian province, the seat of Giżycko county and the rural municipality of Giżycko (former in german Ostpreussen). The city is located between lakes Kisajno and Niegocin. Giżycko is called the capital of sailing in Poland. Postcard about 1970.
Pojezierze Kaszubskie - (Kaszëbsczi Ùbrzég) is a fairly elongated region. The eastern border is the Baltic Sea coast, and it is located in the administrative area of Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia. Postcard about 1970.
Lagow - town located in Świętokrzyskie province, Kielce county. The seat of the Łagów municipality office. It is located in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. The postcard from 1979 shows a late Gothic church, a 1960s socmodernist school and the landscape.
County Fermanagh is actually an awesome place to live near. And visit. But this postcard, ugh. First of all, there are lots of ticks here. That long grass is a no-no. This child should be in long sleeves, long pants and smothered in tick repellent. As for the flip side. I think it speaks for itself. No one wants AI in a postcard.
PS...my main reason for posting, if anyone wants this postcard (fortunately I only have one), I will send it to you.
Thanks Deborah, I'll take your word that Co Fermanagh is awesome to live n. lease send e the postcard, if no-one else has already claimed it. As to AI on the reverse of the card, well our BPs are almost all of the front of the cards, so AI doesn't come into this. I am 'NS' = Naturally Stupid°(People usually send me the Boring Postcards that they find, I group them together where possible and suitable, and put them up here on the site. Merci: VMH, 1 rue de la Vieille Fontaine, 11130 SIGEAN, France, who ooks forward to receiving more BPs from you)
BORING JUKEBOX POSTCARD -- BOUGHT IN PARIS, BY HELEEN: MAILED IN AMSTELVEEN, THE NETHERLANDS, BY HELEEN: TO VAL, IN SIGEAN, FRANCE
'Jukebox, Paris, 1956'.
Heleen writes, "I - as usual [shame on you, Heleen!] -- don't think this card boring, but it seems as if the ladies overleaf are kind of bored, so someoneor something (maybe life?) must have been boring to them."
BEDANKT, HELEEN!
(PS, I have about 800 7 inch vinyl records, 700 12 inch vinyl LPS, 700 cassettes, 1 old portable record player, but, alas, no jukebox. I don't have a single piece of digital or analogue music.)
1. THE YOUNG ONES: BUT HOW MANY -- 2, 3 OR 4?Well, it says that they are "typical", but it's not clear if that's a reference to the people and/or the donkeys.
Anyway, Corsica is "An oasis of beauty".
2. THE OLDER ONES -- BUT NOW WE ARE DOWN TO 2 OR 3
THUR MOUNTAIN AND LOUGH MCNEAN, IRELAND -- FROM DEBORAH McMENAMY -- THANKS!
Deborah writes: "Ii my life was a postcard this is the one it would be. not very far from where I live these cows (not these exact cows) graze by the banks of Lough McNean. the almost too tranquilness captured in this boring postcard depicts the actual 'vibe' of life in rural Ireland. you can fall asleep looking at it. you can fall asleep looking at it. you can fall asleeee....zzzz"
Valentine Mark Herman
"LE GRAND TOURNANT, LES MONTS DE CANTAL, FRANCE, FROM ANNE P
Dec 26, 2023
Valentine Mark Herman
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)
Dec 30, 2023
Valentine Mark Herman
RECEPTION AREA, HEART CLINIC, BEAUMONT-DE-LOMAGNE, FRANCE
Jan 3
Raphael Nadolny
Braunschwieg, former DDR, stadthalle/town hall, postcard about 1970/1980
Jan 4
Valentine Mark Herman
FROM CATHARI --" Famous secret weapons: Lt. Dubois et Nestor, his ally in combat"
Jan 7
Raphael Nadolny
Biała Podlaska, town in east par in Poland, postcard from 1988.
Jan 10
Valentine Mark Herman
MAN AND PIG HUNTING FOR TRUFFLES IN LE PERIGORD, FRANCE
Jan 15
Valentine Mark Herman
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
Jan 15
Valentine Mark Herman
THIS IS FERDINAND ROQUES 'PREPARING' THE SKIN OF A FOX IN FIGEAC, FRANCE (I don't know what the fox was called)
Jan 15
Valentine Mark Herman
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
Jan 15
Penelope Timm
Val:
Thank you for the welcome! I have many questions. Pardon my ignorance.
Jan 16
Raphael Nadolny
Mielno (German: Großmöllen or Groß Möllen) is a town in northwestern Poland located on the Baltic Sea and Jamno Lake, on the Slowinski Coast. The city, with two summer seaside resorts and a fishing harbor, is one of the many resort complexes of the Polish coast. A postcard from the late 1980s.
Jan 16
Raphael Nadolny
Biała Podlaska region, east part of Poland, postcard from 1975.
Jan 18
Valentine Mark Herman
WELL, WE ALL GOT DRESSED UP IN THESE SILLY FOLK-LORE COSTUMES AND CAME DOWN TO THE RIVER WHERE PAPA INSISTED ON PLAYING HIS ZITHER AND WE ALL HAD TO WEAR SILLY HATS.
Jan 23
Raphael Nadolny
Swinoujscie (German: Swinemünde) - a city and health resort in the northwestern corner of Poland, the northwesternmost city in Poland with a seaport and a bathing resort, located on the Swina Strait and the Baltic Sea, the only city in Poland located on 3 large islands: Usedom, Wolin, Karsibor, and dozens (44 in total) of islands and islets.
Postcard with holiday house KORAB, 1969.
Jan 26
Raphael Nadolny
Zielona Gora - a city in the western part of Poland, near the border with Germany. Postcard from 1966, a block of flats in the Wazów housing estate.
Feb 3
Valentine Mark Herman
FOUR POSTCARDS FROM THE LAST C ENTURY FROM PENELOPE TIMM: THANKS PENELOPE!
1. "Normal", Kingman Co, Kansas, USA
Feb 7
Valentine Mark Herman
THREE MORE FROM MIKEL: THANKS SIGNOR!
1. Nocturnal View, Rue del Villar, Santiago de Compostella, Spain![](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12374690885?profile=RESIZE_710x)
2. La Seine et le Pont Alexandre 111, Paris, France
Edelweiss...
Edelweiss...
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow
May you bloom and grow
Feb 7
Raphael Nadolny
Zwoleń - a town in Poland, in Mazowieckie Voivodeship, Zwoleń County, the seat of the urban-rural municipality of Zwoleń. Situated on the Zwolenka River, in the South Masovian Hills, historically in the Małopolska region. On a postcard from 1973, the building of the Municipal Office.
Feb 11
Valentine Mark Herman
TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS (from Greece?) AND A (French?) HAPPY NEW CAR CARD FROM KATERINA: merci beaucoup!
Feb 16
Valentine Mark Herman
WINTERY ONES FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA: THANKS AGAIN!
1. I Love Ski
2. Ski Jump, Valle de Astun, Spain
Feb 17
Valentine Mark Herman
NEW YORK BORING POSTCARDS FROM ALF-OLE ASK: TAK!
Feb 17
Penelope Timm
1 The Fijiya Hotel, Natural Hot Spring, Miyanoshita, Japan
A very old postcard from early 1900s
![](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12385597079?profile=RESIZE_710x)
Feb 21
Penelope Timm
Feeding time at the California alligator Farm, Los Angeles California![](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12385597690?profile=RESIZE_710x)
Feb 21
Penelope Timm
”The Pond”, Ashford, UK , no other details given. (Postcard appears very old: affix 1/2d stamp)![](https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12385600699?profile=RESIZE_710x)
Feb 21
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Good to see that the "New Cards" arrived in Sigean, Val,
even in time for New Year of the Dragon beginning in February, wow!
Feb 21
Valentine Mark Herman
TWO FROM PETER WILSON -- THANKS PETER!
1. John J Donnelly Rocky River Nature Center, Cleveland Metroparks, North Olmstead, Ohio;
Dunk like an occasional cup of coffee into which he duked his donuts...but that was at another place in Ohio where there is a Dunkin Donuts chain 360 million years later.
2. Pier W Cleveland's specialty seafood restaurant, Lakewoood, Ohio, USA
And a very ugly cantilevered restaurant building beneath a very ugly highrise. Maybe lots of architects go there for the view, the invisible service, and even the seafood.
Feb 28
Valentine Mark Herman
SPOILER ALERT -- ADDICTION! WEIRD POSTCARD FROM FROM HELEEN DE VAAN (bedankt, Heleen)
It says: "The average person checks their phone 85 times a day. And you?"
Heleen reckons that this postcard is not just (or even not only) boring, but ugly - and I agree with her.
But it's interesting in it's own way -- a white, tattooed girl (I think) with a . big brown non-humanoid ear. Does this represent the future of politically correct (boring) postcards?
Heleen wonders what we did 15 or so years ago when we didn't have smart phones?
(I'm not smart enough to have a so-called 'smart phone.', and I only look at my antique phone about 4 or 5 times a day.)
Feb 29
Valentine Mark Herman
THREE WINTERY VIEWS OF CANDANCHU, SPAIN -- FROM MIKEL: thanks once again!
Mar 9
Raphael Nadolny
Ustronie Morskie, Baltic See beach, postcard about 1970.
Mar 14
Valentine Mark Herman
LE LAC DE MATEMALE, FRANCE
Mar 18
Valentine Mark Herman
BOTTOMS UP! PLANTING RICE IN LA CAMARGUE, FRANCE
Mar 19
Raphael Nadolny
Kalisz - market square and surroundings of the city (Goluchow castle and roadside inn), postcard from 1975.
Mar 19
Mick Boyle
Mar 19
Valentine Mark Herman
EMPTY HALL AT FRANCE'S AEROP0RT DE MARSEILLE-MARIGNANE (with large plant)
Mar 27
Valentine Mark Herman
THANK YOU CLEMENTINA CADERA FOR THIS BORING POSTCARD OF SORENBERG, SWITZERLAND
'Here's aBoring Postcard of a village where tourism made all the houses look pretty much the same', says Clementina
Reminds me of the 'Little Boxes song, of which here is the first verse:
Little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same'
Mar 30
Valentine Mark Herman
A FRENCH EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT
1. Draguignon Ecole Normale d'Institutrices
'Normale'? Is there, I wonder, a school for the abnomral, subnormal, or otherwise different in Var, France?
Apr 5
Valentine Mark Herman
TWO BORING POSTCARDS OF HOLIDAY INNS, FROM PETER WILSON -- who writes "I cannot imagine that receiving these would make the recipient want to visit either of them". Anyway, THANKS, PETER!
1. Holiday Inn of Cleveland East, Ohio, USA
Sadly they couldn't afford a photographer, and this is a not very good drawing of the Inn.
(Aside on the Inn's "Free TV". There was once a pub in England that had a board outside offering "FREE SEX EVERY NIGHT" in big capitals. On closer inspection there were some important very small letters added to it, viz: "FREE wifi SEXually seperated toilets EVERY NIGHT open until 23.45)
2. Holiday Inn of Duluth, Minn, USA
Apr 10
Raphael Nadolny
Giżycko (Lötzen) - a city in the Warmian-Masurian province, the seat of Giżycko county and the rural municipality of Giżycko (former in german Ostpreussen). The city is located between lakes Kisajno and Niegocin. Giżycko is called the capital of sailing in Poland. Postcard about 1970.
Apr 11
Raphael Nadolny
Pojezierze Kaszubskie - (Kaszëbsczi Ùbrzég) is a fairly elongated region. The eastern border is the Baltic Sea coast, and it is located in the administrative area of Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia. Postcard about 1970.
Apr 22
Valentine Mark Herman
WINTERY BORING POSTCARDS FROM FRANCE 5but Spring is coming....at last)
1. Chamonix, Mont Blance, France
2. Le Puy de Dome, L'Auvergne, France
Apr 26
Raphael Nadolny
Lagow - town located in Świętokrzyskie province, Kielce county. The seat of the Łagów municipality office. It is located in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. The postcard from 1979 shows a late Gothic church, a 1960s socmodernist school and the landscape.
Apr 29
Deborah McMenamy
PS...my main reason for posting, if anyone wants this postcard (fortunately I only have one), I will send it to you.
Apr 29
Valentine Mark Herman
Thanks Deborah, I'll take your word that Co Fermanagh is awesome to live n. lease send e the postcard, if no-one else has already claimed it. As to AI on the reverse of the card, well our BPs are almost all of the front of the cards, so AI doesn't come into this. I am 'NS' = Naturally Stupid°(People usually send me the Boring Postcards that they find, I group them together where possible and suitable, and put them up here on the site. Merci: VMH, 1 rue de la Vieille Fontaine, 11130 SIGEAN, France, who ooks forward to receiving more BPs from you)
May 1
Valentine Mark Herman
BORING JUKEBOX POSTCARD -- BOUGHT IN PARIS, BY HELEEN: MAILED IN AMSTELVEEN, THE NETHERLANDS, BY HELEEN: TO VAL, IN SIGEAN, FRANCE
Heleen writes, "I - as usual [shame on you, Heleen!] -- don't think this card boring, but it seems as if the ladies overleaf are kind of bored, so someoneor something (maybe life?) must have been boring to them."
BEDANKT, HELEEN!
(PS, I have about 800 7 inch vinyl records, 700 12 inch vinyl LPS, 700 cassettes, 1 old portable record player, but, alas, no jukebox. I don't have a single piece of digital or analogue music.)
May 1
Valentine Mark Herman
"TYPICALLY CORSICAN" BORING POSTCARDS (from 1966)
1. THE YOUNG ONES: BUT HOW MANY -- 2, 3 OR 4?
Well, it says that they are "typical", but it's not clear if that's a reference to the people and/or the donkeys.
Anyway, Corsica is "An oasis of beauty".
2. THE OLDER ONES -- BUT NOW WE ARE DOWN TO 2 OR 3
May 7
Valentine Mark Herman
THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- THANKS YET AGAIN, MIKEL!
1. Valle de Astun (Jaca), Spain
May 8
Valentine Mark Herman
THUR MOUNTAIN AND LOUGH MCNEAN, IRELAND -- FROM DEBORAH McMENAMY -- THANKS!
May 8
Valentine Mark Herman
BORING MOUNTAIN POSTCARDS
1. Mont Blanc, Chamonix, France
2. Le Montvalier, Aulus-Les-Bains, Ariege, France
May 13
Valentine Mark Herman
OLD RUSSIAN BORING POSTCARDS FROM ILYA SEMENENKO-BASIN: THANKS ILYA
May 16