Stuff I Collect - Postcards

Stuff I Collect - Postcards

1. Oregon Coast Motels

1. Astoria
1. Lamplighter motel
2. Lee City Center Motel
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   This motel is still in business as the Astoria Rivershore Motel. Kirsten and I used to stay there when we visited Astoria. But a night of Yelling Guy in the next room ended that.
2. Delake
1. Cosy Cove Motel Apts

2. Other motels

1. Lake Wales, FL. Sands Motel
   
   

3. 1968

4. Hotel

1. New Orleans. 1939. Hotel New Orleans

5. Portugal

1. 1953 Queluz National Paris
6. New Mexico
1. 1967 Red River

Postcard Collection - 2.1 - Lake Wales, FL (1973)

New Music Media (MOMA) - postcrossing

Sent by a postcrossing chum.
On back:
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
www.moma.org
Shin Matsunaga. Japanese, born 1940. New Music Media, 1977. Offset lithograph, 40½ x 28 5/8". The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer through the The U.S. Art Directors Club, New York. © Shin Matsunaga

Beefeaters

This old postcard postmarked 1986.

Farsund

This already used postcard from 1981. As usual, personal names blurred.

On back:
F-9904-1
Norway
Farsund. Utsikt mot byen med broen over Nordsundet.
View of the town.

Picturesque Midland

Picturesque Midland

On back:

Midland, Michigan - This view shows the picturesque river area in downtown Midland.

Photo by John Penrod.

(Postcard was mailed in July 1984.)

Fallbrook: avocado capital of the world

An already used postcard for a change. This one is postmarked 1981, I think. Names have been blurred out.
On back:
Fallbrook
Avocado Capital of the World

Black Sand Beach, HI - from Tom

Black Sand Beach, Hawai'i
Photo by Peter French
Sent by my chum T- from the islands.

Saturday God postcard

From my pal M- in Walla Walla, WA. I'm not sure what the actual title of this piece is, as there is nothing on the back of the postcard. If you know, leave a comment.

Postcard: Last Smoker in America

Last Smoker in America - postcrossing
Originally uploaded by Alhazred

Sent to a postcrossing chum in Finland.
On back:
The Last Smoker in America
By the late 20th century, anyone who still smoked was regarded as quite weird.
© Vintage Images, P.O. Box 228, Lorton, VA 22199
Printed in the Good Ole USA on recycled paper.

Kookaburras postcard

Kookaburras - postcrossing
Originally uploaded by Alhazred

Another older postcard, sent to a postcrossing chum in Finland.
On back:
Kookaburras (Taronga Park),
Sydney, Australia

Siltcoos Lake - postcrossing

Siltcoos Lake - postcrossing
Originally uploaded by Alhazred

Siltcoos Lake, sent to a postcrossing chum in Rottenburg.

Baalbek Camels - postcrossing

Baalbek Camels - postcrossing
Originally uploaded by Alhazred

A lovely old one, sent to a postcrossing chum in Finland.
On back:
Camels in Baalbek - Lebanon
Photographed by Said Salah Box 307 Alkobar
Saudi Arabia - Box 1181 - Beirut - Lebanon

Masai Woman - old postcard

Another older card, sent to my chum Slim in Hawaii.
On back:
Masai Woman
Copyright by Sapra Studio - P.O. Box 5882, Nairobi

Notre Dame - old postcard

This is a somewhat older card, part of a very large lot that I picked up cheaply in Toledo, Oregon.

Sent to my friend Dave in Evansville, IN.

On back:

Paris et ses Merveilles

528 - Notre Dame (Façade)

Editions d'Art A. Leconte, 38, rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, Paris

Fabrication Française - Reproduction interdite

(Note 'Guy' signature on bottom right.)guy

Paradise Park macaw - postcrossing

Paradise Park macaw - postcrossing
Originally uploaded by Alhazred

This one actually dates from 1968. I just sent to it to a postcrossing chum in Finland.
On back:
Paradise Park, Honolulu, Hawaii
"Duke," a Hyacinthe Macaw, fires the cannon at one of the many daily performances.
© 1968 Dexter Press, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Excellent postcard practical joke - return of the baboon

The backstory:
When I was back in South Africa about five years ago, my family and I had a close encounter with a baboon. We were having a picnic at Cape Point, parked by the side of the road. I was outside the car, wandering around, while my two sisters and mother were inside, munching their sandwiches. I noticed a big, ugly, hairy baboon loping towards the car and high-tailed it back inside, all the while shouting to my sister to close the front door.

Alas, she was somewhat slow on the uptake and the baboon made it in the car. He climbed over my sister and stationed himself between the two front seats. He growled at me, his ugly face and fangs just about a foot away from mine. He then grabbed our sandwiches, and made away, my mother by that time having opened up the other front door.

Bloody baboons.

So out of the blue last week, I get this postcard from Stratford-Upon-Avon, scanned here.

(I pixellated the first line of my address. The text reads: Long time no see! I left S Africa, found job randomly hitting typewriter keys for this playwright... England is nice except the food. I miss your sandwiches! Love, the babboon." I love the dodgy (baboon-like?) handwriting.

It gave me a heck of a kick to get. I wondered who the heck pulled off this excellent jape until A- admitted to it. Apparently his chum J- was in England on holiday, and A- got him to mail it off.
A fine jape. Damn fine.

Bloody baboons.

Commencement ceremony - postcard

Sent to my nephew S- in South Africa
On back:
Commencement Ceremony, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, California
Photograph by © Lauren Greenfield
Courtesy Stephen Cohen Gallery

Groeten uit Heeswijk Dinther - postcard

Sent to me by a postcrossing chum in Holland.
On back:
© Biri Publications BV NL +31 (0)297 23 76 50 info@biri.nl www.biri.nl

On a side note, I got flickrfs working. Damn useful tool. Viva linux.

Cape Foulweather - historic marker

Cape Foulweather - historic marker
Originally uploaded by Alhazred

Sent to a postcrossing chum in Holland.
On back:
Historical marker at Cape Foulweather
Viewpoint which is 500 feet above the ocean on the Oregon Coast.
Photo: Katherine Peyton