The Wednesday Post

Boring Postcards: A Re-Introduction
You vs. Six Boring Postcards -- GRUDGE MATCH
the attraction is something that is common as dirt

Back at the beginning of time, I gave this blog its first heady exposure to Boring Postcards.  I even formulated a not-quite-definition of the genre that, if memory serves, has actually been picked up and cited by somebody, somewhere:

Although there are no universal rules, common characteristics of the properly boring postcard might be:

• it shows an "attraction" that no one would ever actually want to visit
• the attraction lacks visual interest
• the attraction is something that is common as dirt
• a genuinely interesting attraction is made to look uninteresting
• the image is poorly photographed or framed
• text on the postcard carries an unintentional pathos or irony

Let's take another look at those first six cards -- the cards that set the standard for all of the many tedious, tedious postcards I've shared with you in the eight years since!  Maybe they'll have grown on you.

Lake Claremore, Claremore, Okla.


Dear Folks; We have a cabin in Amarillo tonight.  Weather is cool & we are really enjoying the trip with Jim.  More later - Dollie


EAST PARLOR SHOWING BULLET HOLE IN SHUTTER MADE BY AN INDIAN
THE WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MANSION.  VINCENNES, INDIANA. 

KENTUCKY DAM AND LAKE
WESTERN KENTUCKY

Gigantic Kentucky Dam, erected by the Tennessee Valley Authority at a cost of $115,000,000 is 8,412 feet long and 206 feet high.  Built across the Tennessee River, the gigantic dam, created Kentucky Lake 184 miles long with a shoreline of 2,400 miles.   Beautiful Kentucky Lake provides a wonderful recreation area and excellent fishing.

Mon Eve.

Traveled this far.  Going on to Memphis in the Morning.

Wayne 

W-28  HANDLEY HIGH SCHOOL, WINCHESTER, VA.

The Rolling Surf

Pheasant Grill Drive-In, Arlington, Oregon