Space Shuttle Enterprise and the NASA 747: 1977 - 1978

The N.A.S.A. 747 transporter carries Space Shuttle orbiter "Enterprise" during final approach and landing test near Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Color Photo by NASA

KSC Tours, Visitor Center, TWA

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

This postcard is unused. I believe this flight was on January 31, 1977.

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Space Shuttle "Enterprise" separates from N.A.S.A's 747 during approach and landing test V. 

Color Photo by NASA

KSC Tours, Visitor Center, TWA

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

This postcard is unused and is probably from 1977. 

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Preparations for unloading Enterprise from 747 Carrier.

Alabama Space and Rocket Center, Tranquility Base, Huntsville, Alabama.

This postcard and it is unused. I believe this might have been on March 13, 1978.

100 years ago Harry Gardiner "The Human Fly" climbed this Building in Alabama

National Post Card Week
May 3 - 9, 2015

In 1917, Harry Gardiner climbed to the top of the Empire Building in downtown Birmingham, Alabama.  A crowd of 35,000 people gathered to watch "the Human Fly" scale the sixteen story building.  The Birmingham Ledger newspaper sponsored the promotional event.   This image was the cover of my book "Birmingham: Then & Now. (2007)

This postcard is from JD Weeks and is number 71 in a limited edition of 100.

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Harry H. Gardiner (1871 – after 1923), better known as the Human Fly, was an American man famous for climbing buildings. He began climbing in 1905, and successfully climbed over 700 buildings in Europe and North America, usually wearing ordinary street clothes and using no special equipment.

The climb on this postcard took place on January 30, 1917. 

Rheinturm (Rhine Tower) with Lightning in Dusseldorf, Germany

Dusseldorf Reloaded

This postcard features lighting around the Rhine Tower.  It is postmarked in 2016. 

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The Rheinturm (Rhine Tower) is a 240.5 metre high concrete telecommunications tower in Düsseldorf, Germany. Construction started in 1979 and finished in 1981. It stands 174.5 metres high and houses a revolving restaurant and an observation deck at a height of 170 metres. It is the tallest building in Düsseldorf.

Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2016

Liebes-briefe (Love letters)

Stamp Day

Pen and Pencil Heart, 70  

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Germany (Deutschland)  stamp 2005

'Tagetes' (African Marigold flower) 20

Clydesdale Horses that pull Beer . . .

Anheuser-Busch, Inc. 

The magnificent Budweiser Champion Clydesdale 8-Horse Hitch has brought a thrill to people in every state of the union; here pictured in St. Louis, Missouri at Grant's Farm. 

This is postmarked in 1993 with 19 cent balloon stamp.

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Here is a close up postcard of one another Clydesdale..

SeaWorld Adventure Parks

You can witness the beauty and strength of an Anheuser Bush Clydesdale at Sea World.

This is postmarked in 2009 with a 26 cent wild cat stamp and two Tiffany Lamp 1 cent stamps.

USA Stamp 1991

Hot Air Balloon

Ballooning 

19 cents 

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USA Stamp 2007

Florida Panter 

26 cents

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USA stamp 2007

Tiffany Lamp, 1 cent

Gauchos and Girls in Argentina, Pan American Airlines

Argentina
Gauchos and girls perform folk dances in local costume at a ranch near Buenos Aires, southern terminal of PAA's Latin American service.

Pan American
World's Most Experienced Airline

This postcard is unused.  

Basic Wisconsin Food Groups

Basic Wisconsin Food Groups:
Corn Group, Beer Group, Milk Group, Brat Group

This funny postcard is postmarked with a U.S. balloon stamp in 1993.

USA Stamp 1991

Hot Air Balloon

Ballooning 

19 cents 

The First Transcontinental Call, Jekyll Island, Georgia

First Transcontinental Call

Theodore N. Vail, New York, President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, participated in a memorable telephone ceremony January 15, 1915 - January 25, 1915 while recuperating from lameness at Jekyll Island.  In order that President Vail might participate in the long circuit call from Jekyll to Washington, New York and San Francisco a thousand miles of cable were run to the island.

Dr. Alexander Graham Bell was the chief figure in the New York call with Thomas A. Watson assistant to Dr. Bell, at the San Francisco terminal.  President Woodrow Wilson, in speaking to Mr. Vail at Jekyll said "Hello Mr. Vail!"  "Who is this?" (Mr. Vail) "This is the President.  I have just been speaking across the continent." "Oh. yes." (Mr. Vail). "Before I give up the telephone.  I want to extend my congratulations to you on the consummation of this remarkable work," replied the President of the United States.  It has been said that Bell created the telephone and Vail created the telephone business.
Mr. Vail visited Jekyll in two yachts at various seasons.
The Speedwell and The Northwind

Georgia Historical Commission

First Transcontinental Call
Jekyll Island, Georgia
photos by David Noble

This is an older postcard, however it is postmarked in 2016.

I tried to the best of my ability to type what is written on the plaque correctly.  It is awful small though, so there might be a mistake or two.  

Seat of Pluto, Red Rocks Park in Colorado

On the Seat of Pluto,
Park of the Red Rocks,
Mt. Morrison, Colorado

The sender writes:
We seen this rock the day we were in the park at Morrison.
Lovingly Alice

This postcard is postmarked in 1909.

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Red Rocks Park is owned and maintained by the city of Denver as part of the Denver Mountain Parks system. The park is known for its very large red sandstone rock formations.

Red Rocks Park was the site of the Start and Finish line of The Amazing Race 9 which aired in the spring of 2006.

USA stamp 1908

Benjamin Franklin

1 cent

Mo'orea, French Polynesia

Moorea, French Polynesia

Photos by Brenda Perez

This unused postcard features a cruise ship and is from 2015.

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Mo'orea is a high island in French Polynesia, one of the Windward Islands, part of the Society Islands. The true spelling of Mo'orea is Mo'ore'a, which means "yellow lizard" in Tahitian: Mo'o = lizard ; Re'a = Yellow. 

Recipes from Louisiana - Gumbo by Mom

Gumbo! By Mom!

Louisiana Recipe for Gumbo

3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
3 tablespoons of flour
1 large chopped onion
1 cup chopped celery
5 or 6 cloves, chopped garlic
1 can of chopped green pepper
1 can of tomato sauce
1 can of tomatoes ("Rotel" tomatoes for a spicier taste!)
1 pound, fresh slides okra (or 2 boxes of frozen sliced okra)
2 pounds of fresh shrimp
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 tablespoon of chopped parsley
1 bay leaf

For sea food gumbo, add to above:
1 small can of crab meat or 3 fresh jumbo crabs
1 jar of fosters

Slowly stir the flour into heated oil in a heavy cast iron skillet.  Continue to stir until the flour is dark brown.  Add the next four ingredients; stir until onions are clear.

Add tomato sauce.  Stir until it gets crumbly or dry.  Fry okra in another skillet until it is no longer sticky or stringy.  Add tomatoes and fried okra.

Cook slowly, adding 2 to 3 cups of water - a little at the time.  Season with salt and pepper to taste.  Stir in one teaspoon of sugar.

Cook for about on a hour on a low fire, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking to the bottom of pot:  adding water if necessary.  Add the shrimp and a bay leaf (and if desired, the oysters and crabmeat).

Cook another 30 minutes to an hour adding seasoning to taste.

Serve over boiled or steamed rice.

This unused postcard is from 'The Postcard Factory'.

The Giant's Causeway in Ireland

Evening at the Giant's Causeway
Co. Antrim
Northern Ireland

Photo by Esler Crawford
Published by John Hinde, Ltd.

This postcard is unused.

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The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption.  It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986.

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Incase anyone wants to know what basalt columns are...

During the cooling of a thick lava flow, contractional joints or fractures form. If a flow cools relatively rapidly, significant contraction forces build up. While a flow can shrink in the vertical dimension without fracturing, it can't easily accommodate shrinking in the horizontal direction unless cracks form; the extensive fracture network that develops results in the formation of columns. The topology of the lateral shapes of these columns can broadly be classed as a random cellular network. These structures are predominantly hexagonal in cross-section, but polygons with three to twelve or more sides can be observed.  The size of the columns depends loosely on the rate of cooling; very rapid cooling may result in very small (<1 cm diameter) columns, while slow cooling is more likely to produce large columns.

A Platypus Postcard

The Platypus
This and the Echidna are the only egg-laying mammals in the world.  It eats mainly worms and tadpoles, obtained under-water, returning to the surface to breathe.

This vintage postcard is unused. 

A Statue of Septimus Severus in Libya

Septimus Severus
Leptismagna - Libya

This postcard is postmarked in 2009 from Libya.

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Septimius Severus (11 April 145 – 4 February 211), was the Roman emperor from 193 to 211.  As a young man he advanced through the cursus honorum—the customary succession of offices—under the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Severus seized power after the death of Emperor Pertinax in 193 during the Year of the Five Emperors.

 In 208 he invaded Caledonia (modern Scotland), but his ambitions were cut short when he fell fatally ill in late 210.  Severus died in early 211 at Eboracum (today York, England), and was succeeded by his sons Caracalla and Geta.

Libya stamp 1992

The Great Socialist People's 

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 

300

State Coat of Arms