# Time for the "Middle of 2015" Postcard Exhange! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507 "2015-07-07T21:08:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [August 16, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/161 "2015-08-16T22:59:33Z")
I believe Quebec has a similar law that 98% of the churches must be named for Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/162 "2015-08-17T14:11:02Z")
I received a lovely card from **Ulf the Unwashed** on Saturday. It shows a bronze sculpture of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt from the visitor center at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/163 "2015-08-17T17:28:03Z")
I’m working on the list of who has and has not yet received their postcards. It looks like these Dopers not yet mailed their postcards: **Weedy Melaleuca BeeGee MissTake Amarinth melodyharmonius** If you are on this list, could you please report in to the thread? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/164 "2015-08-17T19:24:39Z")
I got a second card from Cheeze\_Whia, a picture of ghost towns and camps in Colorado. CW, did you ever see the documentary series _Life After People_? I thought of that, when I saw those old buildings. The show talks about how long our stuff myight last, if people vanished in an instant. ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/165 "2015-08-17T22:43:25Z")
Hurrah! Got two cards from **raventhief** today! Loved the water-park. I didn’t get to go this year, so I was happy to visit through you. 😉 And I loved the cave too: that Chandelier is brilliant, no pun intended. Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/166 "2015-08-17T23:02:49Z")
Bonus cards from raventhief! What a surprise!! A lovely card from colonial Williamsburg showing a foundry, and a postcard from the Skyline Caverns in Virginia. The formation pictured resembles the US Capital Dome in DC. Thank you! ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/167 "2015-08-18T01:33:34Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > …CW, did you ever see the documentary series _Life After People_? I thought of that, when I saw those old buildings. The show talks about how long our stuff myight last, if people vanished in an instant. If you liked that, I highly recommend this book: [The World Without Us - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us) ---
**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:** [August 18, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/168 "2015-08-18T03:24:49Z")
I got a postcard today from **Amarinth** (who can be removed from the deadbeat list) with a hybrid “then” and “now” photo of Pike Place Market! Where I have been! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/169 "2015-08-18T11:56:06Z")
Received from **blondebear** , \*\*Why Child \*\*and **silenus**. Nice cards of old fruit packing plant (I think) a Stone-Masonry library building in CA, an Indigo Bunting, Santa Cruz deep Sea Invaders’, and a photo pack of the Badlands. Thanks all. My 2nd in the snail mail Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/170 "2015-08-18T13:35:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I got a second card from Cheeze\_Whia, a picture of ghost towns and camps in Colorado. > > CW, did you ever see the documentary series _Life After People_? I thought of that, when I saw those old buildings. The show talks about how long our stuff myight last, if people vanished in an instant. No, I don’t think I have; I may need to check it out! ---
**Author:** ![NuclearBombPop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@NuclearBombPop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NuclearBombPop)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/171 "2015-08-18T16:39:21Z")
Thanks for the postcard from Seattle, **amaranth**! For some reason, I thought the Space Needle was closer to the middle of downtown (where the skyscrapers are). I guess it looks that way from certain angles (ones that must be used for every establishing shot of Seattle ever). ---
**Author:** ![NuclearBombPop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@NuclearBombPop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NuclearBombPop)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/172 "2015-08-18T17:31:55Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I got a postcard from _a hundred years ago!_ Although to be fair to the USPS, I believe **NuclearBombPop** mailed it just in the last couple weeks. The postcard depicts the streetcar that takes you from Minneapolis to the steamboat on Lake Minnetonka. Hmmm, I note the boat is called Minnehaha, does everything in Minnesota start with “minne”? Is it native american for “the” or something? Sorry to burst your bubble, Karen, but the postcard is an _illustration_ of a scene from 100 years ago. It’s a new-ish postcard, though the antique store in downtown Excelsior that I bought it from has a lot of old postcards. (I have one from the 1935 California-Pacific Exposition (a World’s Fair type thing) that I got from there.) I once was working on a list of things that begin with “Minne”. It got really long, but I lost it. It’s apparently Dakota for “water”. There’s a lot of water features in Minnesota. Ten thousand lakes, dontcha know? Even the natural gas company around here is (was) called Minnegasco (until it got bought out), which is a good name for a fictional Minnesota town (_à la_ Lake Wobegon) which would be on Lake Minnegasco. ---
**Author:** ![BeeGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@BeeGee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeGee)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/173 "2015-08-18T18:01:13Z")
My postcards went out a week ago, Anaglyph’s came back with insufficient postage so I did that one over. Mailed Sunday. I received Marilyn Monroe from Kayaker and Anaglyph’s heart. ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/174 "2015-08-18T19:34:01Z")
Thanks for the reports! I’m having a devil of a time constructing a list of who has received from who – I’m going to try a different format tonight and see if I can keep it straight. I either have too many things going on or am getting old! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/175 "2015-08-20T13:30:34Z")
I got the second card from **Ulf** yesterday. It shows a railroad bridge built in the 1880’s that has now been transformed into a pedestrian bridge over the Hudson river! Very cool! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/176 "2015-08-20T17:12:37Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > Thanks for the reports! I’m having a devil of a time constructing a list of who has received from who – I’m going to try a different format tonight and see if I can keep it straight. I either have too many things going on or am getting old! 😉 Just to confuse things: I sent postcards not only to the three addresses I got from you, but also to anybody else in this exchange whose address I had from previous exchanges. So I sent off 12 postcards on July 31st. The first arrived at its destination on the fourth or fifth of August ( **Elendil’s heir** ). So far (August 20th), the arrival of nine postcards has been confirmed, three appear still to be in transit, one of them to a regular addressee. To date, I have received one card, from **Kayaker**. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/177 "2015-08-20T17:54:35Z")
> [@jayrey](#): > > At last! Postcards away – mine went in the mail today. > > I have received wonderfully cool cards and messsages from **ThisSpaceForRent** (business signs in St. Louis and, yes, let’s do a Dopefest!), **vivalostwages** (scenes of a beautiful resort in Indio, CA, that I want to go to now), **Anaglyph** (the awe-inspiring Matterhorn) and from \*\*Karen Lingel \*\*(views of Santa Clara, CA, architecture). Thank you all! Seeing these makes me want to travel. > > snip). Yes, Fantasy Springs is a lovely Indio resort. It’s lovelier during cooler weather, though, as it was in the triple digits there even at night when I went in July, and the winds were blowing at an insanely high speed. See my short video of it here (no, you can’t relax next to a pool when it’s blowing like that!): [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhxJ8jK1Uvc) ---
**Author:** ![Why\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b782af/32.png) [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/178 "2015-08-21T06:13:15Z")
Sorry I haven’t been back with the updates, real life has been crazy! I have received postcards from davida03801 and blondebear, so I have gotten all of mine. This has been fun, and I’m already collecting cards for the next one!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/179 "2015-08-21T08:46:45Z")
I got a second postcard from **raventhief**! 😃 Fantastic photo of some reeeeeeally impressive caverns 🙂 Lovely! Thanks a bunch! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507/180 "2015-08-21T16:33:18Z")
A _very_ funny/cute/appropriate card from **BeeGee** , thanks! And I would have gotten it a week ago, but it was accidentally delivered to a neighbor who was vacationing and had a hold put on their mail. Neighbor was perplexed. She apologized for reading my postcard, but said it didn’t make much sense to her. I thanked her and went back to cleaning out my car. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-the-middle-of-2015-postcard-exhange/724507.md?page=10)