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BORING POSTCARDS

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.

Location: Sigean, France
Members: 39
Latest Activity: Apr 11

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INTERESTING POSTCARDS!! 41 Replies

From time to time we have outbreaks of whether a Postcard is Boring, or not.“Yes it is”. “No it isn''t.”“All Postcards are Boring.” “All Postcards are interesting”.And so on, and so forth.So, LET'S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENTAnnouncingINTERESTING…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Francis Lammé Aug 17, 2022.

DULL AND/OR BORING? 15 Replies

DULL OR BORING?I am a member of the British-based Dull Men's Club (DMC) – which also includes women, and, indeed, claims to…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Nov 27, 2021.

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Comment by Raphael Nadolny on May 6, 2022 at 10:35am

Maków Podhalański - Old Square. Postcard from 1976.

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on May 5, 2022 at 5:57pm

Maków Podhalański - 

The commune is situated in the Beskid Makowski and its southern part includes also a fragment of the Beskid Żywiecki. Particular villages are situated along the Skawa river and its tributaries. The railway line Cracow - Zakopane and the national road Wadowice - Nowy Sącz cross the area of the commune. There was an embroidery school in Maków from the end of the 19th century and the so-called Maków embroidery was and is widely known not only in Poland. Healthy, healing microclimate, whose properties were noticed already at the beginning of the last century. Postcard from 1976, Kolejowa street (Train street).

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 5, 2022 at 4:47am

A WEIRD LOCATION FOR A MUSEUM?

This is  'Le Musée' (altitude 1008m) at le Donon, Bas-Rhin, France. If this is the main path to the Museul, I bet they don't get many visitors and certainly no wheelchair or handicapped ones.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 4, 2022 at 1:58pm

STRANGE BORING POSTCARDS WITH VERY FEW PEOPLE ON THEM

1. L'Etang [lake] de Sassegnies, Berlaimont, France

2. Fugerei, Augsburg, Germany

3. Le pont sur la Sal, Le Bono, France

This shows Bono of U2 emerging from the river (bottom left). Or maybe it's Sonny Bono of Sonny and Cher. Get it? If so 'I got you babe'. If not, .....well never mind

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 1, 2022 at 6:04pm

BORING BEACH POSTCARDS FROM FRANCE -- THE FIRST FROM ILE ROUSSE, CORSICA; THE SECOND FROM CANCALE IN BRITTANY

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 1, 2022 at 6:01pm

HOWEVER MUCH I PLAY AROUND WITH THIS POSTCARD

...it still comes out as a lot of whiteness with a few black dots.

It's a postcard of the pistes at Larche in the French Alps ("altitude between 1700 & 2000m")

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 1, 2022 at 5:55pm

Heleen...itmay go in my Boring Postcard Exhibition in November. Then you can have it with pleasure. BUT remind me in December.

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on April 30, 2022 at 10:13am

(also Dutch bird lovers find French seagull postcards interesting. All seagull cards can be sent to me)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 30, 2022 at 9:14am

IF YOU'RE A FRENCH SEAGULL YOU WILL PROBABLY FIND THIS POSTCARD INTERESTING, BUT IF YOU'RE NOT A FRENCH SEAGULL YOU PROBABLY WON'T FIND IT INTERESTING

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 30, 2022 at 9:12am

Thanks Edvard. I've just got hold of a book called 'Brutal Bloc: Soviet era postcards from the eastern bloc' which has many good examples of propaganda postcards, with an emphasis on architecture. Regards, Val

 

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