new Holy Land pictures

I just obtained a new Holy Land postcard containing four views. Three of the four are new and are now on display on my Holy Land, Batman! Web page.

By the way, I am always on the lookout for new Holy Land (of Waterbury) postcards to add to my collection, so if you are aware of any that I can obtain, please let me know.

Surfin': Sixteen Thousand Cards and Counting

This week’s Surfin’ looks at a collection of 16,000 QSL cards. Read it here, then come back here to post your comments, if any.

By the way, Surfin’ is a weekly column published on ARRLWeb features Web sites related to Amateur Radio, specifically, and radio, in general. If you have any suggestions for Surfin’, please contact WA1LOU using the e-mail link to the right.

scared & scarred by the silver screen

My daughter bought me some postcards for my collection. The stash included some depicting posters of 1950's science fiction films including the original Godzilla film titled Godzilla, King of the Monsters.

IMDB says that the film was released in 1954. Amazon says 1956. I'm guessing that 1954 was the release date in Japan and 1956 was the release date stateside because I saw that movie at the State Theater when it came out and I was 3 years old in 1954 and 5 years old in 1956, so 1956 is more like it.

I remember asking my Mom to take me to see that movie. She was a fan of horror flicks, so she agreed and took my sister and I downtown to see the film one afternoon.

I remember the long line in front of theater to buy tickets. The line was so long that it went up East Main Street and turned the corner down Brown Street. Mom thought the line was too long and so she decided that we would return to see the film on another day.

Eventually, we did see the film and it scared the crap out of me! I had Godzilla nightmares for years.

Remember that scene when a procession of people are walking up the side of a hill? Godzilla pops up on the other side and everyone in a panic runs back down the side of the hill. Well, many a time, I relived that scene in my nightmares with my family and I in that procession of people going up and down the side of the hill.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters was the first of the many "monster movies" that scared and scarred me in theaters when I was a kid. I will write about the others in the future.

new holy land postcards

I recently acquired (via eBay) new postcards depicting Holy Land in my hometown, Waterbury. I just added them to my Holy Land, Batman! page. You can tell which ones are new by the word NEW at the beginning of the new postcards' descriptions.

By the way, I am always on the lookout to add Waterbury Holy Land postcards to my collection, so if you have any you don’t see below that you wish to unload, please let me know.

mystery solved

Last week, I mentioned a local mystery in the guise of a postcard I won on eBay.

In addition to blogging about the mystery here, I also mentioned it on the local geneology e-mail list, where a lot of local historians hang out. A number of people suggested solutions to the mystery, but none of them fit just right.

It suddenly occurred to me to check the rest of my postcard collection to see if I had any other postcards published by Prestige Associates, the publisher of the mystery postcard. I searched my postcard collection database and found one other Prestige Associates postcard in my collection depicting the Long Acre Inn in my hometown, Wolcott.

I found the Long Acre Inn postcard and, voila!, it was a match!

Funny thing is that I have gone to the Long Acre Inn, now called the Lily Lake Inn, a few times, but the place must have been remodeled and redecorated because it no longer looks how it is depicted on the postcards.