Rhodos, Greece

Country: Greece

From: pen-pal 

 

 

A popular tourists' destination.
 

 

Hotel La Concha, Puerto Rico

Country: Puerto Rico

From: Anonymous Collector

Hotel, Beach and Cabana Club - San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

The hotel was built in 1961. The Internet says "La Concha" was closed and sold in 2004. However, it seems it still operates in a changed/new version.

Electra Airliner

Country: USA

From: Anonymous Collector

The jet-powered Electra airliners (were) the newest, the fastest and the most spacious planes. 170 of them were built by Lockheed from December 1957 to 1961.

Card issued by American Airlines

 

Snowdonia

Country: Wales/UK

From: pen-pal

 

 

The beautiful area of Snowdonia in Wales appears quite frequently in one of the TV series we are currently watching. I used to exchange letters with a lady who lived in that area. However, this card came from another pen-pal who just visited the place.

Nuremberg, Germany

Country: Germany

From: pen-pal

A postcard from Bavaria, Germany. More about Nuremberg here.

Albrecht Duerer, painter and printer, was born in Nuremberg.

Mickey mouse was born somewhere else and has nothing to do with Nuremberg besides the fact that the stamp was stuck on the above postcard.

From the Seashore

Country: Poland 

From: pen-pal

Władysławowo -  used to be fisherman's village, nowadays also a tourist resort by the Baltic Sea. In the summer, crammed with tourists.

Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz 

Polish-Greek athlete

More about him: 

1. https://polanddaily24.com/jerzy-iwanow-szajnowicz-almost-completely-forgotten-wwii-hero/culture-history/16459 

2.  https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/incredible-true-story-of-swashbuckling-polish-agent-who-became-resistance-leader-and-chief-saboteur-in-wwii-greece-6799

Bieszczady

Country: Poland

From: family

 

The Bieszczady mountains are situated south-east of Poland not allover as the card shows.