For those who don't know this, I collect postcards. It started years ago, when a friend sent me one when I was a kid (back in the day when there were no computers and phone calls were super expensive and... well, you get the point, lol).
Then someone else sent me one. It was so cool to get them in the mail, anytime I heard of anyone going anywhere, I asked them to send me a postcard from there. Now, two (or maybe three - yikes!) decades later, and I have over 200 postcards. A bunch are all in a nice photo album / book thing, the rest are tucked in the back and waiting for me to organize them and put them in their own book.
So back to today. Apparently one of my students found a smallish album at a flea market - and in it were postcards.
Not just any postcards! These are *old* postcards! As in, every one of them is older than I am! They are from all different places to a bunch of different people. The oldest I've found is 1906, the "newest" is 1963, I think.
Anyway - it's Awesome, with a capital A!
The person who wrote it talks about how this was the first such card (a Christmas card) they've been able to send since the occupation. Such things weren't allowed "when the Germans had all the say".
That's history right there, it is. How awesome is that! A little card with a picture and a short message from nearly 70 years ago!
Anyway - to say I'm jazzed would be an understatement. So from time to time, I will share some other pictures from different places. I hope you enjoy them even half as much as I already am!
:)
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