My Favorite Postcards

International Postcard Week
October 2 - 8, 2016

Hello and Greetings from Salem, Oregon USA!  My name is Kristina and I LOVE going to the beach! I took this picture of my fun rubber boots in the tide pools at Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, Oregon during a day trip this Summer!

I also love sending and receiving mail, so I'm really excited about International Postcard week!
I'm looking forward to getting lots of postcards this week, and I hope you are, too!
Best Wishes!
Kristina

This postcard is unused.

Ashland, Oregon

Oregon's most lovable and memorable City, the Swans in beautiful Lithia Park, the Shakespearean Festival, the Ski slopes of Mt. Ashland, the Bagpipers, the War Memorial on the Plaza, Southern Oregon State College, the quaint little Shops, and so much, so much more.

This is postmarked in 1990 with 15 cent Buffalo Bill Cody stamp.

International Postcard Week 2016

Oregon City, Oregon
This is my favorite picture of my backyard garden pond.  My pond is full of frogs and goldfish.  It is a very peaceful and relaxing place.  The sounds of the waterfall and frogs is so wonderful. Hope you enjoy this card!
From Dianna

This postcard is unused. 

International Postcard Week
October 4 - 10, 2015

Covered Bridge
Albany, Oregon
Limited Edition Postcard # 3 of 50.

This is unused and signed by Chris Carney.

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The Hoffman Bridge is a covered bridge near Crabtree in the U.S. state of Oregon.  It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 9teen87.   :D

Constructed in 1936, the bridge was named after its builder, Lee Hoffman. The creek and the nearby community were named after John Crabtree, who settled here in 1845.

US Mail Stage at High Tide on the Oregon Coast, circa 1915

The Mail must get thought, circa 1915
These brave and persistent mail carriers from the past race the surging tide to make their appointed rounds.  Up until the early 1930's the road systems along the Oregon Coast consisted of Indian trails and a few very muddy roads.  So the vast stretches of sandy beach along the Oregon Coast served as roads for all manner of transpiration north and south.

This reproduction postcard is postmarked 100 years later in 2015.

The sender writes:
We drove all over the Oregon Coast today!  I saw elk, sea lions, ate Dungeness Crab and fish.  What a day!

Cannon Beach
Oregon Coast

Cannon Beach Sandcastle Contest

Photo: George Ostertag

This is postmarked in 2010 with a 28 cent polar bear stamp.

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A Cannon Beach tradition starting in June 1964, Sandcastle Weekend attracts thousands of visitors and locals,  who come to build fanciful creations or just watch the fun.
The contest includes divisions ranging from Masters, who create amazing sculptures, to groups and children ready for creative fun in the sand.

The Bomber Gas Station (this is now The Bomber Restaurant)
Highway 99 E, Milwaukie, Oregon

unused, printed in 1997, however the picture is older than that

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From their website:
Our World War II B-17G Bomber was originally flown to Oregon by Art Lacey. From 1947 until its closing, the "Flying Fortress" you see in Milwaukie, OR. sheltered one of the nation's largest filling stations.

Currently, there are under 20 intact examples of B-17s world wide. After 64 years of weathering Oregon's climate, birds and suffering from wanton vandalism, Milwaukie's Bomber is being restored! This is a long term project that will lead to the education of generations to come about the World War II era.

The memorabilia displayed in the family restaurant are reminders of a history, not to be forgotten. The Bomber family is dedicated to the preservation of this "flying Fortress" christened the "Lacey Lady". She stands in honor of the men and woman who fought so valiantly during WWII to save our freedom.

Princess Legend

A legend is told of a terrible sickness that threatened the Multnomah people. An old medicine man revealed that the sickness would pass if a maiden threw herself from a high cliff on the Big River to the rocks below. When the Chief's daughter saw the sickness on her lover's face, she went to the cliff and plunged to her death. Now, when the breeze blows through the water, a livery stream separates from the upper falls. The misty stream fashions a form of the maiden, a token of the Great Spirit's acceptance of her sacrifice.

Multnomah Falls

The illustrious Multnomah Falls are located 30 miles east of Portland in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.

Photo: Charles A. Blakeslee

unused, bought in 2010

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Multnomah Falls has drops in two major steps, split into an upper falls and a lower falls. The total height of the waterfall is 620 feet (189 m). It is the tallest waterfall in the State of Oregon.

The bridge you see is the Benson Footbridge, a 45-foot (14 m)-long footbridge that allows visitors to cross above the lower cascade.

Depoe Bay Oregon
Photo: Steven Astillero

unused, bought in 2010
the card is shaped like the state of Oregon :)

Here is a reprint postcard of what it looked like in 1936:


Oregon Coast Hi-Way
Depoe Bay, Oregon 1936

Historical picture of Depoe Bay, Oregon taken in 1936. The Seagull Gift Shop was established in the 1930's and has been in continuous operation since.

unused, bought in 2010 at the Seagull Gift Shop :)

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Depoe Bay is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States, located on U.S. Route 101 next to the Pacific Ocean. The population was 1,174 at the 2000 census.

The bay of the same name is a six-acre (24,000 m²) harbor that the city promotes as the world's smallest.

In 1975, the fishing trip sequence in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed in Depoe Bay.
In 2008, restaurant scenes from The Burning Plain were filmed in Depoe Bay, at the Tidal Raves restaurant.

Oregon

One of the many tulip farms in the beautiful Willamette Valley in Oregon.

Photo: Rick Schafer

This is postmarked in 2009 with two stamps.