# The Great Summer 2020 Doper Postcard Exchange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 15, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863 "2020-05-15T16:05:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/101 "2020-06-10T14:48:02Z")
Yet another giant monster card from **silenus**! This one is of King Kong vs. Godzilla, _“The Two Mightiest Monsters Of All Time!”_ Cool! His missive relates a quote from Buffy’s Riley Finn about needing to know “the plural of apocalypse”. That brought to mind Stacker Pentecost’s rousing speech in another kaiju epic: “Today we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today, we are canceling the apocalypse!” ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/102 "2020-06-10T16:58:01Z")
Today I got a postcard from **romansperson** , featuring a rather strange photo of some lions under a tree, guarding a bed. All very weird, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/103 "2020-06-11T03:12:59Z")
I got a vintage postcard from **Old\_Wench** today of the junction of the Allegheny and Mononongahela rivers in Pittsburgh, and she indicated the building she works in. The stamps may be vintage as well; they are small denominations with images I’ve never seen before… Thanks, **Old\_Wench** , I hope your office is high enough that you get a gorgeous view! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/104 "2020-06-11T15:25:30Z")
Got another monster-movie-poster postcard from **silenus** , this time for _Frankenstein Conquers The World_, which looks gloriously cheesy. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Old\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecccb3/32.png) [@Old\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Old_Wench)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/105 "2020-06-11T16:03:26Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I got a vintage postcard from **Old\_Wench** today of the junction of the Allegheny and Mononongahela rivers in Pittsburgh, and she indicated the building she works in. > > The stamps may be vintage as well; they are small denominations with images I’ve never seen before… > > Thanks, **Old\_Wench** , I hope your office is high enough that you get a gorgeous view! I’m glad you liked it. Yes, the stamps are older (a/k/a “obsolete postage”). My father was a stamp collector for 70+ years and most of his stamps are only worth their face value but still valid for postage. You should see our Christmas cards - we frequently get comments on the assortment of stamps used on them. When we’ve run low on some denominations, we’ve also bought them for less than face value on ebay, from stamp dealers, etc. I’m on the 27th floor of the 31-story building so the views are good, especially toward the North Side. We are directly across the Allegheny River from PNC Park (home of Pittsburgh Pirates), which was not yet built when that postcard was printed. The first small photo under the large one on this page is the view from one side of my office: [https://www.visitpittsburgh.com/sports-venues/pnc-park/](https://www.visitpittsburgh.com/sports-venues/pnc-park/) ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/106 "2020-06-11T18:05:27Z")
I just got mine from **purplehorseshoe**. It’s a reproduction of the illustration “Farewell at Night” by Georges Barbier. It looks like something you’d see on an F Scott Fitzgerald paperback. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/107 "2020-06-11T18:45:05Z")
I’ve gotten 2 postcards from **Karen Lingel**. One is a Henri Matisse, the other is an aerial shot of beautiful downtown Aurora, IL, just down the road from me. ---
**Author:** ![Allecher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@Allecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allecher)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/108 "2020-06-11T20:21:19Z")
Today I got a cool card from **Kimstu** that encouraged me to brush up a little bit on geography of upstate New York. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/109 "2020-06-12T00:42:47Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > I’ve gotten 2 postcards from **Karen Lingel**. One is a Henri Matisse, the other is an aerial shot of beautiful downtown Aurora, IL, just down the road from me. Has Aurora changed much since that ~1988 postcard? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/110 "2020-06-12T00:53:22Z")
Got mine from **purplehorseshoe too** , with a stylized print on the front of what looks like Vegas showgirls. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/111 "2020-06-12T02:59:49Z")
A card from **Dolores Reborn** arrived today with an invitation to go fishing. The card has a photo of two kids with fishing poles on a riverbank. Thanks for your wonderful card Dolores! Nobody has has replied to my offer to send card to them. If anyone sends me their address I’ll send a card out them. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/112 "2020-06-12T04:21:58Z")
As noted in Rule 5, please drop all postcards in the mail _today_, if you haven’t already done so. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/113 "2020-06-12T14:14:58Z")
Got my first card today from **dbygawdcapn** , with a beautiful sculpture by Jeff Koons with real flowering plants, from the Glenstone Museum. Very cool, thanks very much! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/114 "2020-06-12T16:59:04Z")
Well, I didn’t realize so many of y’all were sending multiple cards! I guess I should have expected SDMB to duplicate things. 😃 Look at all the dupe posts lately. Anyway, I felt chintzy about my singles, so ah _blushes, rubs back of neck sheepishly_ like the coronavirus, there’s a second wave. More Art Deco stuff. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/115 "2020-06-12T18:28:27Z")
In picking mine up, the postman dropped yet off another from **Teuton** this time featuring Concarneau - of which I’d never heard. (Google to the rescue! And a rabbit hole to fall down & pleasantly click around, reading … ) I couldn’t quite see the British stamps before - something about mental health, but it was obscured by the cancellation - but this stamp I think wasn’t even properly cancelled. It features two older folks putting their heads together over their tea very conspiratorially. “I can’t abide to see people gossiping.” That cracked me up, and imma send a picture of it to some friends. It’s very … apropos. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/116 "2020-06-12T18:59:17Z")
I got a postcard today from **Peedin**. It is a very fancy painting by Baroque artist Domenichino, which hangs in the Wallace museum in London. Thanks, **Peedin**! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/117 "2020-06-13T02:26:29Z")
Received a postcard of great power from **Kimstu**. My compliments on the penmanship. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/118 "2020-06-13T13:17:40Z")
Got a cool card with the vintage book cover art of “The Shadow And The Voice Of Murder” from **RealityChuck**. Thank You! ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/119 "2020-06-13T16:08:19Z")
Cards away! Dropped off the postcards at the post office this morning. (Yes, I know I violated rule number 5 but I guess late is better than never). ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863/120 "2020-06-13T21:37:05Z")
Another postcard from anglophile **peedin** : a vintage card from England with a photo of “The Abbey and (something) Gardens (something) Avon.” (The post office put their 50th Anniversary of Earth Day graffiti right on top of the caption.) It’s a lovely garden, with people social-distancing way back in 1983. Or perhaps they are just British! Thanks, **peedin**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-summer-2020-doper-postcard-exchange/853863.md?page=7)