Antique & Vintage Postcards

"Hilsen fra Molde" — Greetings from Molde — announces this bright chrome multiview card showcasing the "City of Roses" on the Romsdalsfjord, a Norwegian coastal gem rebuilt entirely after devastating WWII bombing in 1940. Five vignettes arranged around the city's whale-emblazoned coat of arms capture the full civic personality of mid-century Molde: sailboats heeling on the Moldefjord (1), a bustling Myranbakken street scene with colorful shopfronts (2), the elegant garden-fronted Alexandra Hotel (3), the soaring modernist Molde Cathedral with its distinctive needle spire (4), and the flags-bedecked Hotell Romsdalsheimen (5). The cathedral, completed in 1957, was itself a postwar symbol of rebirth — its angular Scandinavian modernism a deliberate contrast to the medieval forms it replaced.