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« Reply #780 on: February 06, 2019, 06:20:42 PM »
The collection has A LOT of seemingly random buildings - state capitals, churches, office buildings.  I guess they're interesting because they're mostly over 100 years old, most probably torn down by now.

Here's one I do like.  As the view is from Main St out, the older buildings are likely in the foreground


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« Reply #781 on: February 07, 2019, 02:36:46 AM »
Wonderful, PB.  This postcard really conveys the height of those building.

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« Reply #782 on: February 07, 2019, 02:43:25 AM »
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A postcard from a dear friend.

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« Reply #783 on: February 07, 2019, 07:26:59 AM »
Not a postcard, but it came with the collection.  Our government actually doing something positive.  Post WWII?


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« Reply #784 on: February 07, 2019, 11:53:20 AM »
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Taken from over Ciudad Juarez - pre-wall construction and perhaps even pre-fencing.

El Paso's 18-foot-tall steel fence -- was built in 2008 to replace a shorter, flimsier chain-link fence known as the "tortilla curtain" because people could just lift a section to get under it.

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« Reply #785 on: February 08, 2019, 02:31:10 PM »
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« Reply #786 on: February 08, 2019, 02:31:38 PM »
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...interesting to see the suspension bridge has gone away in this later postcard...

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« Reply #787 on: February 08, 2019, 07:11:37 PM »
Given the location and size of the place, this must have been where the AMC Kabuki Theater is now (and across the street on the opposite corner from the Fillmore - I'll have to take a closer look around next time I'm over that way)

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« Reply #788 on: February 09, 2019, 09:27:34 AM »
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« Reply #789 on: February 09, 2019, 09:28:21 AM »
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« Reply #790 on: February 09, 2019, 02:51:19 PM »
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« Reply #791 on: February 09, 2019, 03:42:14 PM »
His relative?

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« Reply #793 on: February 09, 2019, 08:42:37 PM »
A nice watercolor of Trieste.  The US cancelation on the front is January 27, 1907, the cancellation on the back says it was mailed January 13.  I believe the addressee is the person who originally started this collection.

Pre WWI Trieste was the mostly landlocked Austria-Hungarian empire's port on the Adriatic.  The stamp is Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, third longest reigning monarch of any country in European history.

It was the assassination of his nephew Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, and Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against the Kingdom of Serbia, that activated a system of alliances resulting in World War I.  In the wake of the war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was swept away, along with several others.


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« Reply #794 on: February 10, 2019, 05:40:50 AM »
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