Postcards?

arrrrrgh - i should have known that. I spent a couple of nights last week looking up things about Lisbon as a result of a discussion on another board about Pasteis de Belem. I looked at soooooo many pix of that bridge.


Now - viaducts?

Roman aquaducts. All ducks of the same feather, I'm told.

hbg, Your story reminded me of our cruise through the Panama Canal several years ago. The mast on our ship cleared the bridge to the entrance of the canal by only a few feet of clearance. whew! I took this for posterity.

So this topic is now a travel quiz? Personally, I would like to see a whole new category, perhaps postcard photo quiz started up.

I LOVE guessing photos but not on each thread. This one was about the pleasure of postcards - the new idea of guessing all of them should be a separate thread in my opinion.

c.i., it's probably Italy, but....where?????

Rome?

I vote for France.

Not Rome or France.

Spain?

ci--this is starting to remind me of your quiz on the travel board, lol..

Just mailed out £10 woth of cards, sharing the love as they say!

L

shoeshsarper, Yes, Spain, but where?

osso, I have postcards to give away. I asked if it would be okay to present them here, and I think I got the okay. If not, I'll stop and detest.

Oh, sure it's okay. I must have been in one of my crabby minutes.

On the aquaduct photo. I walked from the parking area onto the first street visible on the other side of the aquaduct, and went to the sorta tall building at the 'end' of that street. I went into that building, because as I recall it was a cafe or pastry shop, and had a snack.

Segovia!

Hey, c.i., you're up on the travel quiz (the one in the travel ection), as well

Is Segovia correct? Incidentally, that aquaduct looks like it is in remarkable condition, considering its age.

Yes, it's Segovia. margo, if you want the postcard, please send me your address by PM.

I first became interested in old postcards in 1985.
At an outdoor fleamaket I happened upon some very interesting cards that depicted the state hospital where I was working. The views were from around 1908-12. I bought them and started to collect more old views of other similar hospitals.

They were variously called: 'state hospital' 'insane hospital' and even 'lunatic asylum'.

Although I went on to collect other categories of postcards, I still have my asylum collection consisting of about 100 views of approximately fifty hospitals.

Today, quite by accident, I stumbled upon a website someone had created that featured HIS collection of asylum postcards.
http://postcards.abandonedasylum.com/

jjorge, I must ask you this question. What is the attraction for collecting asylum postcards?

ASYLUM POSTCARDS - interesting. just got a book up from the downstairs library (the basement). it's a german book about hospital postcards; called in german : "hier liegt mein mann und laesst schoen gruessen " , loosely translated ; "hier lies my husband and sends his greetings". it was published in 1978 by HERR AXEL HINRICH MURKEN, WISSENSCHAFTLICHER RAT UND PROFESSOR AM INSTITUT FUER THEORIE UND GESCHICHTE DER MEDIZIN DER WESTFAELISCHEN WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAET MUENSTER (he is a big cheese at the university muenster - which isn't far from walter's abode). while most of the postcards shown are probably unused, some have rather interesting notes, such as :" herr pfarrer(pastor), i do not know how long i will have to stay in bed. cannot go to church yet because of sore feet" , and another asking :"dear conrad, please bring applecake and something nice for coffeetime". anyone interested in postcard collecting will probably find it useful to aquire a handbook/collector's guide. the one i use is simply called "POSTCARDS" and is from the (british) PHILLIPS COLLECTOR GUIDES - ehbeth gave it to me some years ago and i find it quite handy. if you have any older, postally used cards, you might want to check the postal cancellations. some of the the cancellations are quite highly prized (and priced) such as : 1st flight cancellations, posted aboard ships and field-post cancellations. happy collecting ! hbg

c.i.

I guess it's an acquired taste.

As I stated above I WORKED in one such place, and when I saw 'old time' pictures of it, I was fascinated.

there's a lot of HISTORY in old postcards including social history.

In fact in the late seventies I used to teach an undergraduate course on the history of social welfare, and I have always been fascinated --often appalled-- by the various institutions that society evolved to deal with the poor, the aged, the blind, mentally ill, epileptics, retardates etc etc.