My Favorite Postcards

Katowice
Postcrossing Meeting
15. 09. 2018

Tramwaj "Maja". fot. Alaksandra Stanosta

This meet-up postcard is signed by 18 members of the meeting.  It was postmarked in 2018 from Poland.

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Katowice is the capital and largest city of Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.

This postcard feature the public tram system and in the back is 'Spodek'.

Spode (which means saucer, like flying saucer, in Polish),  is a multipurpose arena complex in Katowice that opened in 1971. It hosts many cultural and business events and music concerts.  In the winter time Spodek is home to ice hockey clubs.

Warszwa
The 1st largest city of Poland
City Area: 517.24 KM2
City Rights: 1328 YR

Population 1,744,357 - Over 3,500 Postcrossing Members

Famous Monuments:
- Royal Castle
- Presidential Palace
- Palace on the Water
- Grand Theatre
- Warsaw Skyline
- Palace of Culture and Science

Famous People:
- Maria Sklodowska - Curie
- Fryderyk Chopin
- Stanislaw Moniusko
- Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
- Andrzej Wajda
- Boleslaw Prus

The Capital of Poland
Warsaw Metro 1995 about 29 KM
9th Largest Capital Cities of the European Union

This is a 'Postal Love' postcard that was postmarked in 2017 from Poland.

Rownia
Dawna cerkiew (church) gr.-kat. z pocz. XVIII w.
(The eighteenth century.)
Obecnie kosciol (currently the church) t rzym.-kat.
fot. (photo) N. Szczerbicka

This postcard is postmarked in 2015 with two Poland stamps.

The sender writes:

Rowena is a village in south-eastern Poland.  This is the former Greek Catholic church and since 1969 it is the Roman Catholic church.

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Because of three domes, this is a rare style of architecture for a  wooden church in Poland.

Torun, Poland

Torun - Filus - dog statue, Town Hall, Panorama of Old Town from the Vistula river.

This is postmarked in 2015.

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Toruń is one of the oldest cities in Poland. In 1997 the medieval part of the city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

National Geographic Polska rated the old town market and the Gothic town hall as one of the "30 Most Beautiful Places in the World."

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The dog's name is Filus.  He starred in a famous long-running Polish comic strip.

Tarnowskie Gory
Rynek (Market)

- Ratusz (Town Hall)
- Apteka "Pod Aniolem" (Pharmacy)
- Kamienice w rynku (townhouses in the market)

foto: Edward Wyzgol

This unused postcard is from 2015.

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Tarnowskie Góry is an old, picturesque town in Silesia (southern Poland).

 Centrum Promocji Motoryzacji

Jesienia 1954 r. zapadla decyzja o budowie prototypow samochodu Syrena, bedacych konstrukcyjnym rozwinieciem przedprototypu w wersji I. Do marca 1955 roku wykonano piec jednakowych pojazdow. Jeden z nich wystawiono na XXIV Miedzynarodowych Targach Poznanskich, gdzie wzbudzil ogromne zainteresowanie zwiedzajacych.  W prototypie zastosowano nowy silnik, ktory zostal opracowany w Wytworni Sprzetu Mechanicznego w Bielsku-Bialej (pozniejszy FAP). W stosunku do przedprototypow sylwetka samochodu nie ulegla wiekszym zmianom, natomiast dolna czesc nadwozia wykonano z blachy stalowej, a dach mial szkielet drewniany. W lipcu 1955 roku podjeto decyzje o uruchomieniu seryjnej produkcji Syreny w FSO w Warszawie, z zalozeniem docelowej rocznej produkcji 10 000 szt.

This is from an on-line translator:
Promotion Center of Automotive Industry

In the autumn of 1954. The decision was made to build prototypes of the car Syrena, which are structural unfolding pre-prototype version I. March 1955, we performed the same furnace vehicles. One of them exposed to the XXIV International Fair in Poznan, where he aroused great interest of visitors. The prototype uses a new engine, which was developed in Mechanical Production Plant in Bielsko-Biala (the later FAP). In relation to przedprototypow silhouette of the car has not changed much, while the lower part of the body is made of steel and the roof had a wooden skeleton. In July 1955 it was decided to launch serial production of sirens in the FSO in Warsaw, presuming the target annual production of 10 000 pieces.

Fot: (photo) Adam Nopart

The sender writes:
The Syrena was a Polish automobile model first exhibited at the Poznań Trade Fair in 1955 and manufactured from 1957 to 1972 by the Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych (FSO) in Warsaw and from 1972 to 1983 by Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych (FSM) in Bielsko-Biała.
A Siren is a mermaid, who according to the legend, protects the river Wisla and the Polish capital city - Warsaw.  She is features on the city's coat of arms.
Also a diminutive name Syrenka (Little Siren) is commonly used for the car in Poland.

This postcard is postmarked in 2015.

Pozdrowienia z Nakla nad Notecia

Pomnik Wdziecznosci Wojsku Polskiemu
Ulica Bydgoska
Jesien na ulicy Bydgoskiej
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From an on-line translator:
Greetings from Nakła over Notecia

Monument of Gratitude to the Polish Army
Street Bydgoszcz
Fall on the street Bydgoszcz
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Toto: Jacek Tomasz

This postcard is unused and from 2015.

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Nakło nad Notecią is a town in northern Poland on the river Noteć.  I checked the population and found everything from 16,000 to 32,000. 

Wroclaw
Fot. Piotr Syryca

Panorama z Kosciola Marii Magdaleny
View from Maria Magdalena Church
Die Aussicht aus der Kirche Maria Magdalena

This postcard is postmarked in 2015 with two stamp from Poland.

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The Old Town Hall is the building on the left and the church is the building on the right.  Both buildings were established in the 13th century.

Szlak Ginacych Zawodow (Trail of Vanishing Trades)
Kudowa Zdroj (see below)

garncarstwo (pottery)
zwierzyniec (zoo)
Kuznia (blacksmith)
dom chleba (baking bread)

This postcard is postmarked in 2015 with a very pretty bird stamp.

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Kudowa-Zdrój is a town located below Stołowe Mountains in Poland, about 400 m (1,312 ft) above sea level.  It is a historic spa town where heart and circulatory system diseases were cured.

Warsaw
City Center -
Dmowski Roundabout. John Paul II Avenue. City Center.  Dmowski Roundabout. De Gaulle'a Roundabout, UNO Roundabout. Westin Hotel.

fot. Christian Parma

This postcard is postmarked in 2009 with two Poland stamps.

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Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, in east-central Poland.

Happy Postcrossing from Poland!
Lowicz style paper cut-out (A type of Polish Folk Art)

This postcard is postmarked in 2014 with a machine stamp.

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Postcrossing is a free postcard exchange website.  There is no fee except the price of the postcard and the stamp. 

Zakuwam na Okraglo

The sender writes...
Well when you say "zakuwam na okraglo" everyone understands that you study all the time. But when we think what these words mean literally, we also get another meaning and it is shown in the postcard  (this is what woodpecker is doing).  It is an idiom, so we don't translate it literally it’s only shown this way in the postcard to be more interesting and funny.

This postcard is postmarked from Poland in 2007.

I love how he is carving math problems into the tree ;-)