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.
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"NOT REALLY BORING -- BUT REALLY OLD! MESSAGE ON FRONT, ADDRESS ON REVERSE", SAYS MIM ABOUT THIS POSTCARD OF THE CITY HALL,BALTIMORE, MD, SENT ON AUGUST 13, 1906
The message on the front reads, I think, "Look out for a Souvenier Streak (?) on the way. Going to Willsmnd (?) next."" It was sent to Mr & mrs Hodgkinson, in Buncy, Mass, where it arrived on 14 August, 1906
A few more postcards from the 1930s, from my collection , kept in the sentimentalist vein. One has to wonder whether they can be included in the category Boring Postcards?
But in the past it happened that these were the leading subjects - having nothing to do with the correspondence on the back - neutral as far as the content of the correspondence is concerned, but being an excuse to send a postcard to a family member or a friend. The same happened later with anonymous views of towns, buildings, hotel interiors, etc.
Continuing the thread related to postcards from the 1930s, there was also a whole trend related to sentimentalism, and reproductions of works by various painters were distributed, in Poland such as T. Okoń or Fr. Żmurko.
For example, postcards sent to my great-grandfather in 1930 and to a family member.
There's a good chance that the car, a '58 Olds (we had a '59 Olds), was born the same day I was so no girlfriends until I was 4-5 and started nursery school.
One of my many collections is paint chip charts. The dealer brochures are a decent-sized market, chip charts mostly by restorers/owners, but the information is easy to find.
Dear Bradford, How on earth do you know what a paint code for a 60 year old car is? Val, who wonders if your lady-at-tat-time was called 'Heather'
Dear Raphael, Thanks this is interesting and historically significant. I haven't come across any other postcards (yet) of a similiar patriotic/nationalistic nature. Val
Postcadr send to my grand-grand-father in 1930 year.
In the 20-30s of the twentieth century in Poland
there were population postcards with reproduction
of pictuter painted by famous patriotic painters,
with scenes related to historical events
or referring to patriotic literature.
Reproduction of the painting by Juliusz Kossak,
"Konrad Wallenrod", referring to characters
from the national and romantic poem written
by Adam Mickiewicz in the first half
of the 19th century.
#2 - "Wendover Will" has at his feet a fabulous 1958 Oldsmobile Super 88 in a lovely shade of "Heather"*.
* Paint code: DAL-50503 Heather which is a DURACRYL™ Acrylic Lacquer.
THREE FROM KATERINA -- WHY? WHO? WHAT?....AND EVEN HOW?
1. Robert Urich
Katerina writes on the back of this "Why? Who? What?" The who is Mr Urich, whose Harris Tweed jacket does not go with his check shirt. As to the why and what, i have no idea, but suspect that this Postcard, and the last one here come from Katerina's Mail-Art-Sirting-of-Lots-of-Boxes efforts.
2. "Wendover Will" from Wendover, Nevada
Standing in front of the new modern State Line Hotel in Wendover, Nevada is this Giant Cowboy -- "Wendover Will". this friendly cowhand stands 64 ft high and weighs approximately 9 tons. A symbolic figure of the Big West, "Will" is the largest mechanical cowboy in the world. (Beat that John Wayne!)
3. Au Camp de Mailly, France -- a pre-IUOMA exercise in Mail Art
This is a Postcard of some army engineers installing a 'telegraphie' system in 1874. (I sent the Postcard to Katerina in April 2014, and lo and behold 7 and-a-bit years later it has returned to me -- but not by telegraph)
THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA (where does he find them all? you may well ask. I have no idea)
1. Costa del Ecuador
"Beatiful place known as 'La Coleta' in the town ofLibertad at Salinas Distriict of the 'Blue Coast' of Ecuador."
2. L'Avenue des Champs-Elysées et les Chevaux de Marly
I can only see one cheval, and no chevaux (but one of these vehicles may be a protoype Citroen 2CV -- about 20 years before they were ever seen in Paris)
3.Mirador, Benidorm, Spain
I have been to Bendidorm, but am not featured in this Postcard. In fact nothing much at all is featured in this Postcard. Which makes it a truly Boring Postcard. Thanks Mikel!
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