A Vintage Car With Flat Tires for National Postcard Week

"Having A Little Trouble On The Way To Postcard Week"
May 2-8, 1993

This unused 'National Postcard Week' postcard is from Edgar and Georgia Manuel in Mississippi.

Oath to Protect The Reefs of the Bay Islands, Honduras

 (insert your name here)
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Is acknowledged
as a Guardian of

The 200 Million Year Old
REFFS of the BAY ISLANDS
Honduras
'Honduras' means 'deepwater'.  The Islands rise from the Bonacca Ridge thirty miles from the Mainland and the steep walls of this Ridge are one of the most rare and most beautifully formed reefs in the world.  Teach others to treat their fragile beauty with the respect they deserve.  Guard them from trophy hunters and all pollution and feel privileged to have experienced that which future generations will also enjoy and will thank YOU for preserving.

Some of the coral listed are:
Common Seafan, Sea Plume, Giant Brain, Pillar, Knobby Brain, Cavernous Star, Green Cactus, Smooth Star, Ribbon, Leaf, Saucer, Purple Leaf, Elkhorn, Staghorn and more.

This postcard is postmarked in 2014 from Honduras.

Honduras stamp 2005

Pope John Paul II - L 15.00

The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts

Cape Cod, Massachusetts
An aerial view of Provincetown showing the Pilgrim Tower.

This postcard is unused.

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The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts, was built between 1907 and 1910, to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620, and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor.

Two Funny Hockey Postcards from Canada . . .

a Canadian Stick Up

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The Eh Team

Both of these funny postcards are from the Grimm Sports Collection 

and postmarked from Canada in 2012.

Canada stamp 2012

Baby Wildlife

Caribou (Deer), 1.05

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Canada stamp  2011

Baby Wildlife Animals 

Fox Cub in a Log, 1.03

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Canada stamp 2009

Beneficial Insects - Caterpillar 

Danaus Plexippus 

(Monarch Butterfly) 2

Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah

Bryce Canyon
National Park

Thor's Hammer, one of Bryce Canyon's popular hoodoos, is visible from Sunset Point.

Photographer: Chet Waggener

This postcard is postmarked in 2000.

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Bryce Canyon National Park is a National Park located in southwestern Utah. Despite its name, it is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters.

Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos.  A hoodoo is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland.

USA stamp 1998 

Birds

Ring-necked Pheasant

20 cents

Ricky Nelson

Ricky Nelson
May 8th, 1940 - December 31st, 1985
Born in Teaneck, New Jersey

National Postcard Week
May 7th - 13th, 2000

This unused postcard is number 7 in a limited edition of 120.  It was designed by Doris Schreib.

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Ricky Nelson (born Eric Hilliard Nelson, May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985) was an American actor, musician and singer-songwriter. He starred alongside his family in the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–66) as well as co-starring alongside John Wayne and Dean Martin in Howard Hawks's western feature film Rio Bravo (1959).  In 1996, he was ranked # 49 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

A Pokemon Postcard for National Postcard Week

May 7 - 13, 2000
Pokemon
for
National Postcard Week

This unused postcard was designed by Phillip Jackson It is a limited edition of 200.
(His address was also on the front of the postcard but I deleted that off the scan.)

I believe the critters shown are: Eevee, Pikacho, Flareon, and Mr. Mime. 

John Hancock Center, Chicago, Illinois

John Hancock Center

Chicago, Illinois

The sleek black lines of the towering John Hancock Center dominate the northern vistas of the lakefront city.

Photo by Jim Doane

This is postmarked in 2011 with a Disney / Pixar 'Ratatouilli' stamp.

The sender writes:

Last night we ate by the window at 'The Signature Room' on the 95th floor of the John Hancock Building!!  yummy and excellent view!!

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John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot (344 m) tall skyscraper.  When the building topped out on May 6, 1968, it was the tallest building in the world outside New York City. It is currently the fourth-tallest building in Chicago and the sixth-tallest in the United States. 

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Here is a postcard of the view from the window .....

 Chicago

The view from the John Hancock Center at night is truly spectacular.

This card is unused, but has a Pixar's 'Cars' stamp attached, from 2011.

USA stamp from 2011

Disney's Pixar Movie 'Send a Hello' series 

Forever a first class stamp

Ratatouilli with Remy and Linguini

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USA stamp 2011

Disney's Pixar Movie 'Send a Hello' series 

Forever a first class stamp

Cars with Lightning and Mater

Two Fun Postcards of Wisconsin Cheese

Say Cheese!
Wisconsin

Swiss, Muenster, Feta, Brie, Cheddar, and Mozzarella

When settlers first came to Wisconsin they brought with them the Cheese making trades from the "Old Country".  Wisconsin's rich terrain proved itself perfect as farmland and "America's Dairyland" was born.  Wisconsin is synonymous with high-quality dairy products, from milk and cottage cheese, to cheddar, mozzarella and hundreds of unique, specialty cheese varieties.

This postcard is postmarked in 2017 with a stamp that features white roses.

Wisconsin Cheese Nuggets
'Say Cheese'

with:
Kid Colby
Betty Bleu
Cheese Nurd
Molly Mozzarella
Cheesey Cheddar
and
Sammy Swiss

This postcard is from 2008.

USA stamp 2011

Greetings stamp featuring white rose flowers

Forever a first class rate

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Artist's Consception Venus Mapper, Magellan Spacecraft

Artist's conception shows proposed spacecraft for the Venus Mapper (VM), which would use imaging radar to see through Venus' cloud cover to map 90 percent of the planet's surface.  Partially assembled from spare parts of past and future JPL spacecraft missions like Viking, Voyager and Galileo, the VM, if authorized for a new start in 1984, would be ready for launch from NASA's Space Shuttle in 1988.  It would arrive at Venus six months later.

Official NASA Photograph

This postcard is unused.

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The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper, was a 1,035-kilogram (2,282 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.

Death Valley National Monument

Death Valley
National Monument
California and Nevada

Zabriskie Point in the Funeral Mountains of Death Valley National Monument provides an inspiring view of the erosion-sculptured and colorful badlands.

Ubehebe Crater is the largest of 7 volcanic craters in the northern end of Death Valley National Monument.  It is 1/3 of a mile across and 800 feet deep.

This postcard is unused.

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Death Valley is a desert valley that is one of the hottest places in the world at the height of summertime along with deserts in Africa and in the Middle East.

Although it as been contested by some, Death Valley's Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably recorded air temperature in the world at 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913.

Cow Parade - Elvis and Cows from Wisconsin

Cow Parade

Rock and Roll Cow

2001

This 'Elvis' postcard is unused. 

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CowParade, is an international public art exhibit that has been featured in major world cities. Fiberglass sculptures of cows are decorated by local artists, and distributed over the city centre, in public places such as train stations, important avenues, and parks. They often feature artwork and designs specific to local culture, as well as city life and other relevant themes.

After the exhibition in the city, which may last many months, the statues are auctioned off and the proceeds donated to charity.

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Here is a postcard of several Cows on Parade in Wisconsin . . .

Painted cows are all the rage in New Glarus and resemble the former exhibit of the "Cows on Parade" in Chicago.  The project began in the year 2000 when businesses imported 16 fiberglass cows from Zurich Switzerland.  Local artists have painted the cows with unique designs that reflect the artist's talent and the theme of the business owner.

Photos: Gari Walz

This postcard is from 2009.

Somali Camel Rider from Aden, Yemen

Somali Camel Rider - Aden

This unused Yemen postcard is from:
The Hotel de l-Europe
Turkish Shop

The Publisher is: I. Benghiat Son, Aden

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Aden is a port city in Yemen that is located by the the Red Sea.  Its population is approximately 800,000 people.