Soaring above a sea of dark conifers with the turquoise Alpsee shimmering behind it, Neuschwanstein — the fairy-tale castle commissioned by the reclusive King Ludwig II — shares this breathtaking aerial Chrome-era view with the older Hohenschwangau Castle visible on the wooded ridge to the right, the snow-dusted Tyrolean Alps forming a dramatic backdrop that Walt Disney himself drew upon for Cinderella's Castle. The card traveled in October 1959, stamped during the very week of Munich's legendary Oktoberfest, carrying a message in Czech from a traveler who writes warmly about sitting by the River Lech at Füssen, trying to catch trout, and fondly thinking of the recipient — a man named William living on Biscayne Park in Miami, Florida — wishing he could share the scene and asking William to write soon with news he'd missed.