BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 26, 2021 at 4:29am

Dear Mim, you are one of the Group's most loyal supporters and contributors and are definitely NOT amongst the non-active members.

I really appreciate your efforts -- keep going! Bestest, Val

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on July 25, 2021 at 11:20pm

Hello Val, 

I've sent you most of my boring postcards, but

am checking all my piles of cards and will

be contributing again, soon.

Mim

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 23, 2021 at 5:43pm

Thanks Raphael. I am curious how come you still have postcards going back 45 years? Val

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on July 23, 2021 at 12:41pm

Just one more postcard for kids, about 1977.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 23, 2021 at 11:28am

THERE'S NOT MUCH HAPPENING IN THIS STREET OR ON THIS POSTCARD, OF;;;

Bastion St, Mdina ("the Silent City", Malta

"Silent", because it used to be the capital of Malta, but when the capital was moved to Valetta*, Mdina became a 'virtual ghost town'

(* Valetta is not named after your correspondent Val)

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on July 23, 2021 at 1:36am

Those are far from boring, they are interesting! Your first steps in asemic writing, and even a postmark is added!

Thank you for sharing

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on July 21, 2021 at 9:31pm

In the communist era, there were also postcards dedicated for children
 in Poland. 

What I was trying to draw on the other side 

was probably the beginning 
of the mail art.

But these two copies were never sent by post

 because I was trying to address them to myself.

Postcards form 1977 year.

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on July 21, 2021 at 5:03am

Rydzyna, near Leszno in Poland, bar at "Kowolka" located in an old forge from the 17th century.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on July 19, 2021 at 5:29pm

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA.... THANKS AGAIN, MIKEL!

1. Palm Trees from Elche, Costa Blanca

2. The Slope of Lok Ma Chau

Lok Ma Chau is a small piece of riverside land transferred to Hong Kong by Mainland China in 2017.

3.Salle Louis VX, Musée des Arts Décoratif, Paris, France

I wonder if you walked through Louis' Salles 1 to 14 before you arrived at this one?

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on July 18, 2021 at 10:59pm

It was the sixth and the first newly built church in the working-class district of Krakow - Nowa Huta. It was established on the initiative of Fr. Józef Gorzelany in the years 1967–1977 according to the design of the architect mgr. Eng. Wojciech Pietrzyk. The roof of the building resembles the church not only to the ark, but also to the Ronchamp chapel, designed by Le Corbusier.  The history of the church's foundation is related to the defense of the cross by the inhabitants of Nowa Huta in 1960, in the place where the church was originally to be erected. The communist authorities allowed the construction of the temple, but in a different place. On May 18, 1969, the Archbishop of Krakow, Card. Karol Wojtyła, laid the cornerstone from the Basilica of St. Peter at the Vatican and blessed by Pope Paul VI. (information by Wikipedia).

But it is surprising to me that, in opposition to the communist authorities and the socialist realism that they promoted in public architecture, the Polish Catholic Church focused on architectural solutions related to atheistic modernism. The language of modernist architecture has become a weapon of the Catholic Church in the fight against the communist power in Poland. Strange???

Postcard send to me about 1985 year.

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