Antique & Vintage Postcards

Postmarked Martinsburg, WV, August 31, 1986 — a delightful detail suggesting the sender mailed this on the return leg home — this sunny chrome multiview of Vienna showcases the city's greatest hits: a rooftop panorama with Stephansdom and Karlskirche, the sweep of the Danube with the UNO-City tower complex on the horizon, the baroque Hofburg palace complex, an ivy-draped Griechenbeisl tavern sign with a white Fiaker horse-drawn carriage in the foreground, the columned Parliament building, the golden Schönbrunn Palace, and the elegant Belvedere. M.J. writes enthusiastically of sightseeing, good food, a Sunday country excursion, a flea market ("Ann would have loved it!"), and plenty still to see. A warm slice of late-Cold-War tourist Vienna sent from a well-traveled American to Mr. and Mrs. Shope in Altoona, Pennsylvania.