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There's an interesting philatelic connection here — the library (obviously) is named after Joe Fortes, who in the early 1900s was a Vancouver resident who gained local fame as a really decent guy and dedicated lifeguard and swimming coach. In 2013, Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp in his honour:
The beach pictured on the FDC is at English Bay, just a 10-minute walk from our apartment.
Canada Post has issued other Vancouver-related stamps over the years, but none of those has been quite as closely related to my neighbourhood community.
Over to you: Have stamps related in some way to your community ever been issued?
Bob
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Bob, this is sort of in a round-a-bout way. I was born and raised in Chanute, KS. The town was named after early aviation enthusiast Octave Chanute. He had ties with the Wright Bros. and also Osa & Martin Johnson who made dozens, if not hundreds of safari films. The local museum is based around Chanute and the Johnson's and houses one of the larger collections of their safari and aviation memorabilia. A lot of interesting history that's not real well known.
Here's a set of airmail stamps depicting Octave Chanute.
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Well, you might say I am cheating in this category. I grew up in the Canal Zone which had it's own postal system and printed it's own stamps.
When I was a young tyke we picked up our mail in a post office box in the Canal Zone Administration Building.
From 1971 to 1999 my father worked on the third floor of the building.
For several years intermittently my mother also worked in this building on the first floor.
The Thatcher Ferry Bridge (which replaced the Thatcher Ferry) was the only crossing over the canal on the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama. It was later renamed the Bridge of the Americas when the Canal Zone ceased to exist.
I must have crossed a few thousand times at least.
Then there was the Panama Railroad. For several years we lived close to the Ancon station of the Panama Railroad. I remember many times waiting for the train to cross the Isthmus or to greet a relative or friend of the family, or to pick up a package that was delivered by the railroad. This package service was independent of the postal system. You could drop off a package at one station and someone could pick it up at another for a reasonable fee.
There were of course many more stamps regarding places and people in the Canal Zone which I experienced personally.
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This is a GREAT idea for a thread. I've got to consider this one carefully.
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Here are my local contributions... living in Hazlet, New Jersey in Monmouth County.. I produced the ODDITY Cachets in this timeframe so these are all my products that I offered back then. In 1976 I was 17.
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse is in on Sandy Hook in Gateway National Park. This is a 15 minute ride from my former house in Hazlet. I used to ride my bike to the beach as a teenager. Unfortunately USPS decided to issue the stamp at the show in Atlantic City, NJ instead of locally in Highlands, NJ. It would have been even cooler if they reopened the Fort Hancock post office at the tip of the hook for a day!
Atlantic Highlands is the town above the hook. You could see the Tall Ships from the high point where Marconi sent his first telegraph message to Europe.
Hazlet, NJ was my hometown and had their own Bicentennial slogan cancel. The Thomas Jefferson cachet was done for the Declaration of Independence stamps as shown below. I had some printed in brown to use for special events, so I added the blue cachet to mark the event.
I printed 500 covers for the first day issues, and less for special events 100 to 250 depending on the magnitude. I also had some generic cachets for special cancels, like one with a train for railroad cancels.
That was a long time ago, and the fun part is that I have an eBay search in FDCs for ODDITY and they show up all the time.
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Ok... here's Jacksonville native son, distinguished American and Civil Right's leader Asa Philip Randolph. Take note of the train and porters on the stamp. Randolph fought for equality for railroad workers.
Interior of the Jacksonville Station during the 20s.
Interior of the station today, it's now Jacksonville's convention center.
There's a vintage passenger car on display in front of the convention center that looks IDENTICAL to the ones on the stamp but I can't seem to find a picture.
Maybe one of our Internet sleuths can find it.
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Here ya go Ernie. Sometimes you just gotta walk the neighborhood!
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I found an interesting, short article about Joe Fortes, the subject of the stamp in my original post that started this thread: "The Guardian Angel of Swimming Children".
Here a photograph from the article — note the apartment building at the upper left:
That apartment building is still here. My wife and I walked past it just last night. Here's a Google Street view image, showing the park at the right, which appears as the open space between Joe Fortes and the apartment building in the photograph:
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This is US Scott 3872 based on a painting by Marin Johnson Heade.
Heade, a long time resident of St. Augustine, Florida is widely recognized as one of America's preeminent artists. His work often captures the landscapes, salt marshes and birds of the area. To this day St. Augustine is known as an artists haven and great place to see the beaches and other wildlife in Matanzas State Park. Here's a picture of the lighthouse there and my wife and I from the top.
Scott 927 also has a St. Augustine connection:
This image shows the old gates to the city.
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Ok folks, I am OFFICIALLY having way too much fun with this thread!
The Bridge of Lions has long been a symbol of St. Augustine, our nation's oldest city. It is on the National Registry of Historic Places and for years was the area's only way to get over the intercoastal waterway. It's the center of an annual 5k run and it's a short walk from the fort and lots of great restaurants. It's lions were modeled after the Medici Lions of Florence. It too has a philatelic connection!
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BEST NEW THREAD IN AGES!!! Love love love these! Keep 'em coming!
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I can only think of one for the town of my youth:
When I was in grade school in Carbondale, IL, I had a paper route, circa 1968. Carbondale is home to Southern Illinois University. On my route was a strange house that looked like an igloo. It was a college town in the '60s, so there were many strange things. When I went around doing collections each month, a nice lady paid me and I didn't give it a second thought. When I collected payment for December (when Christmas tips were not infrequent!) there was also a rather eccentric gentleman there, and he gave me a cardboard puzzle of sorts. When folded up per the instructions, it was a world globe. That was interesting that you could create a globe out of a flat sheet of cardboard, and I kept in on a shelf in my room for several years.
Later I went to Junior High, then High School, then Junior College. When I got into Engineering School at the University of Illinois I learned about something that rang a bell. That "igloo" I delivered the paper to was R Buckminster Fuller's home, a geodesic dome. He was the one that gave me the geodesic globe. I sure wish I knew the importance of that globe, but it was tattered by the time I went off to college so it ended up in the trash.
Bucky is US 3870:
Carbondale, IL is in Jackson County, named for Andrew Jackson: US 73, 84, 85, 87, 93, etc.
I now live in Marshall County, Kentucky, named after Chief Justice John Marshall: US 263, 278, 313, 480, 1050, 2415.
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As far as I know, no stamps have been issued showing either Schagen, the Netherlands, the place I live now, or the former island of Wieringen, which is where I grew up and lived for the most part of my life.
The closest landmark depicted on a Dutch stamp is the Afsluitdijk, the 32 km long closure dike connecting North Holland and Friesland. I used to be able to see the beginning of it from my living room in Den Oever.
Here are two stamps that show the dike and the moment the last remaining trench was closed at May 28th, 1932.
The second one is rather somber and does not really do justice to this magnificent piece of civil engineering, made almost entirely with wheelbarrow and spade. Therefore I include a picture I took myself, standing on the monument that was built on the spot shown on the first stamp, looking west toward Den Oever.
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Lars,
That's a tremendous story. I always liked that little quirky stamp. It's so neat to hear someone with such a personal connection to it. You actually met the guy. So cool.
Jan-Simon,
How would you pronounce the name? OFF-sli-DIKE? 32km long! What a testament to the determination of the Dutch people. Thank you so much for sharing that.
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Afsluitdijk - Af like in "laugh", the "ui" sound in "sluit" is difficult to explain because it does not exist in English. Perhaps the best comparison is the way a Scotsman would pronounce the word "house". The diphtong "ou" then changes to something close to the Dutch "ui". As a matter of fact, the "ui" sound is what will always give away a foreigner speaking Dutch, no matter how good he/she is at it. The "t" at the end of "sluit" is pronounced, just like English slot, slat etc.
"dijk" is pronounced almost the same as "dike".
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This is a great thread. The first thing that popped into my head was Frederick Douglass. He was born in Talbot County, MD (Easton is the county seat) into slavery, escaped, and became a great abolitionist, author, and orator. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County just to the south of Talbot.
Here's two stamps featuring Frederick Douglass.
A picture of the great man himself.
And this is the bronze statue at the courthouse in Easton.
So much history on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
-Les
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So much history on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And since it's summertime, don't forget the crabs!
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@blueparrot,
"...don't forget the crabs."
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@ Larsdog:
What a great story, about your Buckminster Fuller geodesic globe! If only we were born with foresight!
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"You actually met the guy. So cool."
I only met him that one time, but he invited me in to show me a completed geodesic globe and gave me the unfolded one for my own. I guess that makes me one of the finite number of people to be invited into Fuller's geodesic house while he was living there. If I would have been a college Engineering major instead of a grade school paperboy, I would have stayed as long as possible, paid attention to every detail, and asked a LOT of questions!
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I didn't know until recently that Fuller invented a three-wheeled zero turn radius automobile!
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To continue this thread (which has become very interesting!)...
On December 1, 1950, Southwestern New Mexico's first airmail service began with the opening of the Silver City-Grant County Airport and the first flight of Frontier Airlines, connecting Silver City and nearby Hurley (plus several smaller communities) with the transportation hubs of Phoenix and El Paso. I was only eight years old, and got left out of the festivities, but my dad, who was editor of the Silver City Enterprise was right in the middle of it all. Here are first flight covers commemorating that event:
I've got one or two more Silver City covers, and I've seen others on eBay, but the cachet on each is the same washed-out green. The Silver City cover shown here is special for because of the franking — a "plate trio" of the "Nations United" stamp, issued on my birthday, January 14, 1943, to coincide with the opening of the Casablanca Conference, where Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and to attack the Axis via Sicily and Italy, starting with Operation Huskey on July 10, 1943.
Because my father was a newspaper editor, he got a free ride in the cockpit of the Frontier Airlines DC-3 that landed that day, and in return the airline got a nice feature story based on the ride and Dad's in-flight interview with the pilot and co-pilot (the pilot was the son of U.S. Representative Wayne Aspinall of Colorado). Dad also wrote a few news stories about the events of the day. Here's the beginning of one:
I don't have any other philatelic items related to the airport, but this Frontier Airlines advertising postcard, picturing a DC-3, is in my collection:
On May 2, 1962, an hour or two before I survived a U.S. Forest Service plane crash in the Gila Wilderness, I took this photograph of a Frontier DC-3 taking off from the Silver City-Grant County Airport; I will admit to some manipulation of the image with Photoshop, but the sky isn't greatly exaggerated — anyone flying that day was nuts!:
The Silver City-Grant County Airport and Frontier Airlines continued to play play an important role in my life. After I joined the Navy in October, 1962, I flew home on leave and back to San Diego several times. Here's a photograph taken at the airport at the end of my last leave home before embarking for South Vietnam with the U.S. Marines; that's me on the right; my buddy is Chuck Pierson, a friend from high school days. When I was assigned to the Marines, I ended up in his squad in Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, First Marines:
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I worked at Ian Kimmerly Stamps, on Sparks Street, from 2009-2014. Every morning I would walk across the street to Postal Station "B" to put the mail into the letter box. About 50 metres away, right in the centre of Confederation Square, I'd see this:
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This is not my neighborhood but in my state. An old school house but I am sure much learning and some fun happened here. I tried to find an original picture of the school house but had no luck.
Tribute to American Schools
Depicts the Morris Township School No. 2, Devils Lake, North Dakota, "American Schools—Laying Future Foundations."
Issued August 27, 1979, Devils Lake, North Dakota,
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You learn something new every day and you can learn from stamps that you have owned for a long, long time.
I'm a little red-faced on this one because it's a stamp that I have always really enjoyed. US Scott 616 is part of the 1924 Huguenot Walloon Tercentenary Issue. I have always looked at this issue as some of the last of the great U.S. commemoratives in the same vein as the Columbian and Trans-Mississippi issues. The stamp is a vivid blue color and I love the rising sun over the water.
The stamp depicts the Jean Ribault Monument near Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida. I have always liked this stamp and now I like it even more!
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I have lived all over the place, but my family lived for four generations, following their emigration from Quebec, in Dedham, Mass. This cover, which celebrated "Air Mail Week" in 1938 was purchased by my father when he was twelve years old. He subsequently gave it to me when I was a fledgling collector. The same post office is in use today.
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What a great thread!
Here is a block of four stamps from the Island of Cuba, pre-independence: the postmark is from 1891 and the city is JARUCO, in HAVANA. I grew up in Jaruco until my 15th birthday.
However, I wish I owned this rarity.
I hope you'll enjoy this item.
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OK, my contribution from my home town of Corpus Christi, Texas
In March 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a stamp series to honor World War II's armed forces. There was a number of ideas on how to portray the Navy, but after much debate by government officials on how to portray the Navy the approved model was sent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on August 23, 1945. A reminder was included that the seamen's features must be altered sufficiently in the master die" so that the stamp will conform to law stating, "No living person shall be honored by portrayal on any U.S. postage stamp."
The stamp was issued on October 27, 1945, at Annapolis, Maryland, site of the United States Naval Academy.
According to official information, Edward Steichen, chief of the photographic department of the Navy Combat service, submitted the design for the stamp. There was no immediate information, however, as to when and where the original photograph was taken. Investigations found that the picture had been taken at the Naval Training Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, on November 9, 1942, and that Bob Towers had taken it.
At the time of issue, many sailors believed that they were pictured on the stamp, which featured eleven faces. Thirty years later, two Kansas City postal employees were confirmed to be part of the group—Charles Atkinson and Joseph Corbin. Atkinson and Corbin had joined the navy together in 1942, and had received training in Corpus Christi, where Bob Towers took their picture. After the war, postal employee Atkinson and photographer Towers both relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. There the stamp editor of the Phoenix Republic-Gazette, James Chemi, heard both stories regarding the 1945 Navy stamp, and he wrote an article for Gibbon Whitman Stamp Monthly. Atkinson and Corbin reunited when Atkinson returned to Kansas City in 1961.
Below is a scan of the original picture and a outlined section showing the part of the picture that made up the stamp. Sorry that part of the inscription has been cut off, but that is the way it was received.
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Almost every afternoon I spend a couple of hours at the Joe Fortes Library, a branch of the the Vancouver Public Library that's just two blocks from my apartment. Around 2:00 p.m. you might well see me sitting at the table in this corner of the library at Haro and Denman streets, hard at work on my laptop:
There's an interesting philatelic connection here — the library (obviously) is named after Joe Fortes, who in the early 1900s was a Vancouver resident who gained local fame as a really decent guy and dedicated lifeguard and swimming coach. In 2013, Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp in his honour:
The beach pictured on the FDC is at English Bay, just a 10-minute walk from our apartment.
Canada Post has issued other Vancouver-related stamps over the years, but none of those has been quite as closely related to my neighbourhood community.
Over to you: Have stamps related in some way to your community ever been issued?
Bob
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Bob, this is sort of in a round-a-bout way. I was born and raised in Chanute, KS. The town was named after early aviation enthusiast Octave Chanute. He had ties with the Wright Bros. and also Osa & Martin Johnson who made dozens, if not hundreds of safari films. The local museum is based around Chanute and the Johnson's and houses one of the larger collections of their safari and aviation memorabilia. A lot of interesting history that's not real well known.
Here's a set of airmail stamps depicting Octave Chanute.
WB
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Well, you might say I am cheating in this category. I grew up in the Canal Zone which had it's own postal system and printed it's own stamps.
When I was a young tyke we picked up our mail in a post office box in the Canal Zone Administration Building.
From 1971 to 1999 my father worked on the third floor of the building.
For several years intermittently my mother also worked in this building on the first floor.
The Thatcher Ferry Bridge (which replaced the Thatcher Ferry) was the only crossing over the canal on the Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama. It was later renamed the Bridge of the Americas when the Canal Zone ceased to exist.
I must have crossed a few thousand times at least.
Then there was the Panama Railroad. For several years we lived close to the Ancon station of the Panama Railroad. I remember many times waiting for the train to cross the Isthmus or to greet a relative or friend of the family, or to pick up a package that was delivered by the railroad. This package service was independent of the postal system. You could drop off a package at one station and someone could pick it up at another for a reasonable fee.
There were of course many more stamps regarding places and people in the Canal Zone which I experienced personally.
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Dear Bob,White Buffalo & Smauggie,
Delightful stuff. Much appreciated guys.
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This is a GREAT idea for a thread. I've got to consider this one carefully.
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Here are my local contributions... living in Hazlet, New Jersey in Monmouth County.. I produced the ODDITY Cachets in this timeframe so these are all my products that I offered back then. In 1976 I was 17.
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse is in on Sandy Hook in Gateway National Park. This is a 15 minute ride from my former house in Hazlet. I used to ride my bike to the beach as a teenager. Unfortunately USPS decided to issue the stamp at the show in Atlantic City, NJ instead of locally in Highlands, NJ. It would have been even cooler if they reopened the Fort Hancock post office at the tip of the hook for a day!
Atlantic Highlands is the town above the hook. You could see the Tall Ships from the high point where Marconi sent his first telegraph message to Europe.
Hazlet, NJ was my hometown and had their own Bicentennial slogan cancel. The Thomas Jefferson cachet was done for the Declaration of Independence stamps as shown below. I had some printed in brown to use for special events, so I added the blue cachet to mark the event.
I printed 500 covers for the first day issues, and less for special events 100 to 250 depending on the magnitude. I also had some generic cachets for special cancels, like one with a train for railroad cancels.
That was a long time ago, and the fun part is that I have an eBay search in FDCs for ODDITY and they show up all the time.
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Ok... here's Jacksonville native son, distinguished American and Civil Right's leader Asa Philip Randolph. Take note of the train and porters on the stamp. Randolph fought for equality for railroad workers.
Interior of the Jacksonville Station during the 20s.
Interior of the station today, it's now Jacksonville's convention center.
There's a vintage passenger car on display in front of the convention center that looks IDENTICAL to the ones on the stamp but I can't seem to find a picture.
Maybe one of our Internet sleuths can find it.
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Here ya go Ernie. Sometimes you just gotta walk the neighborhood!
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Beautiful Tom! That's it. Youre good
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I found an interesting, short article about Joe Fortes, the subject of the stamp in my original post that started this thread: "The Guardian Angel of Swimming Children".
Here a photograph from the article — note the apartment building at the upper left:
That apartment building is still here. My wife and I walked past it just last night. Here's a Google Street view image, showing the park at the right, which appears as the open space between Joe Fortes and the apartment building in the photograph:
Bob
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This is US Scott 3872 based on a painting by Marin Johnson Heade.
Heade, a long time resident of St. Augustine, Florida is widely recognized as one of America's preeminent artists. His work often captures the landscapes, salt marshes and birds of the area. To this day St. Augustine is known as an artists haven and great place to see the beaches and other wildlife in Matanzas State Park. Here's a picture of the lighthouse there and my wife and I from the top.
Scott 927 also has a St. Augustine connection:
This image shows the old gates to the city.
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Ok folks, I am OFFICIALLY having way too much fun with this thread!
The Bridge of Lions has long been a symbol of St. Augustine, our nation's oldest city. It is on the National Registry of Historic Places and for years was the area's only way to get over the intercoastal waterway. It's the center of an annual 5k run and it's a short walk from the fort and lots of great restaurants. It's lions were modeled after the Medici Lions of Florence. It too has a philatelic connection!
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BEST NEW THREAD IN AGES!!! Love love love these! Keep 'em coming!
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I can only think of one for the town of my youth:
When I was in grade school in Carbondale, IL, I had a paper route, circa 1968. Carbondale is home to Southern Illinois University. On my route was a strange house that looked like an igloo. It was a college town in the '60s, so there were many strange things. When I went around doing collections each month, a nice lady paid me and I didn't give it a second thought. When I collected payment for December (when Christmas tips were not infrequent!) there was also a rather eccentric gentleman there, and he gave me a cardboard puzzle of sorts. When folded up per the instructions, it was a world globe. That was interesting that you could create a globe out of a flat sheet of cardboard, and I kept in on a shelf in my room for several years.
Later I went to Junior High, then High School, then Junior College. When I got into Engineering School at the University of Illinois I learned about something that rang a bell. That "igloo" I delivered the paper to was R Buckminster Fuller's home, a geodesic dome. He was the one that gave me the geodesic globe. I sure wish I knew the importance of that globe, but it was tattered by the time I went off to college so it ended up in the trash.
Bucky is US 3870:
Carbondale, IL is in Jackson County, named for Andrew Jackson: US 73, 84, 85, 87, 93, etc.
I now live in Marshall County, Kentucky, named after Chief Justice John Marshall: US 263, 278, 313, 480, 1050, 2415.
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As far as I know, no stamps have been issued showing either Schagen, the Netherlands, the place I live now, or the former island of Wieringen, which is where I grew up and lived for the most part of my life.
The closest landmark depicted on a Dutch stamp is the Afsluitdijk, the 32 km long closure dike connecting North Holland and Friesland. I used to be able to see the beginning of it from my living room in Den Oever.
Here are two stamps that show the dike and the moment the last remaining trench was closed at May 28th, 1932.
The second one is rather somber and does not really do justice to this magnificent piece of civil engineering, made almost entirely with wheelbarrow and spade. Therefore I include a picture I took myself, standing on the monument that was built on the spot shown on the first stamp, looking west toward Den Oever.
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Lars,
That's a tremendous story. I always liked that little quirky stamp. It's so neat to hear someone with such a personal connection to it. You actually met the guy. So cool.
Jan-Simon,
How would you pronounce the name? OFF-sli-DIKE? 32km long! What a testament to the determination of the Dutch people. Thank you so much for sharing that.
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Afsluitdijk - Af like in "laugh", the "ui" sound in "sluit" is difficult to explain because it does not exist in English. Perhaps the best comparison is the way a Scotsman would pronounce the word "house". The diphtong "ou" then changes to something close to the Dutch "ui". As a matter of fact, the "ui" sound is what will always give away a foreigner speaking Dutch, no matter how good he/she is at it. The "t" at the end of "sluit" is pronounced, just like English slot, slat etc.
"dijk" is pronounced almost the same as "dike".
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This is a great thread. The first thing that popped into my head was Frederick Douglass. He was born in Talbot County, MD (Easton is the county seat) into slavery, escaped, and became a great abolitionist, author, and orator. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester County just to the south of Talbot.
Here's two stamps featuring Frederick Douglass.
A picture of the great man himself.
And this is the bronze statue at the courthouse in Easton.
So much history on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
-Les
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So much history on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And since it's summertime, don't forget the crabs!
-Les
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@blueparrot,
"...don't forget the crabs."
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@ Larsdog:
What a great story, about your Buckminster Fuller geodesic globe! If only we were born with foresight!
Bob
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"You actually met the guy. So cool."
I only met him that one time, but he invited me in to show me a completed geodesic globe and gave me the unfolded one for my own. I guess that makes me one of the finite number of people to be invited into Fuller's geodesic house while he was living there. If I would have been a college Engineering major instead of a grade school paperboy, I would have stayed as long as possible, paid attention to every detail, and asked a LOT of questions!
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I didn't know until recently that Fuller invented a three-wheeled zero turn radius automobile!
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To continue this thread (which has become very interesting!)...
On December 1, 1950, Southwestern New Mexico's first airmail service began with the opening of the Silver City-Grant County Airport and the first flight of Frontier Airlines, connecting Silver City and nearby Hurley (plus several smaller communities) with the transportation hubs of Phoenix and El Paso. I was only eight years old, and got left out of the festivities, but my dad, who was editor of the Silver City Enterprise was right in the middle of it all. Here are first flight covers commemorating that event:
I've got one or two more Silver City covers, and I've seen others on eBay, but the cachet on each is the same washed-out green. The Silver City cover shown here is special for because of the franking — a "plate trio" of the "Nations United" stamp, issued on my birthday, January 14, 1943, to coincide with the opening of the Casablanca Conference, where Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to demand the unconditional surrender of Germany and to attack the Axis via Sicily and Italy, starting with Operation Huskey on July 10, 1943.
Because my father was a newspaper editor, he got a free ride in the cockpit of the Frontier Airlines DC-3 that landed that day, and in return the airline got a nice feature story based on the ride and Dad's in-flight interview with the pilot and co-pilot (the pilot was the son of U.S. Representative Wayne Aspinall of Colorado). Dad also wrote a few news stories about the events of the day. Here's the beginning of one:
I don't have any other philatelic items related to the airport, but this Frontier Airlines advertising postcard, picturing a DC-3, is in my collection:
On May 2, 1962, an hour or two before I survived a U.S. Forest Service plane crash in the Gila Wilderness, I took this photograph of a Frontier DC-3 taking off from the Silver City-Grant County Airport; I will admit to some manipulation of the image with Photoshop, but the sky isn't greatly exaggerated — anyone flying that day was nuts!:
The Silver City-Grant County Airport and Frontier Airlines continued to play play an important role in my life. After I joined the Navy in October, 1962, I flew home on leave and back to San Diego several times. Here's a photograph taken at the airport at the end of my last leave home before embarking for South Vietnam with the U.S. Marines; that's me on the right; my buddy is Chuck Pierson, a friend from high school days. When I was assigned to the Marines, I ended up in his squad in Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, First Marines:
Bob
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I worked at Ian Kimmerly Stamps, on Sparks Street, from 2009-2014. Every morning I would walk across the street to Postal Station "B" to put the mail into the letter box. About 50 metres away, right in the centre of Confederation Square, I'd see this:
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This is not my neighborhood but in my state. An old school house but I am sure much learning and some fun happened here. I tried to find an original picture of the school house but had no luck.
Tribute to American Schools
Depicts the Morris Township School No. 2, Devils Lake, North Dakota, "American Schools—Laying Future Foundations."
Issued August 27, 1979, Devils Lake, North Dakota,
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You learn something new every day and you can learn from stamps that you have owned for a long, long time.
I'm a little red-faced on this one because it's a stamp that I have always really enjoyed. US Scott 616 is part of the 1924 Huguenot Walloon Tercentenary Issue. I have always looked at this issue as some of the last of the great U.S. commemoratives in the same vein as the Columbian and Trans-Mississippi issues. The stamp is a vivid blue color and I love the rising sun over the water.
The stamp depicts the Jean Ribault Monument near Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida. I have always liked this stamp and now I like it even more!
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I have lived all over the place, but my family lived for four generations, following their emigration from Quebec, in Dedham, Mass. This cover, which celebrated "Air Mail Week" in 1938 was purchased by my father when he was twelve years old. He subsequently gave it to me when I was a fledgling collector. The same post office is in use today.
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What a great thread!
Here is a block of four stamps from the Island of Cuba, pre-independence: the postmark is from 1891 and the city is JARUCO, in HAVANA. I grew up in Jaruco until my 15th birthday.
However, I wish I owned this rarity.
I hope you'll enjoy this item.
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OK, my contribution from my home town of Corpus Christi, Texas
In March 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a stamp series to honor World War II's armed forces. There was a number of ideas on how to portray the Navy, but after much debate by government officials on how to portray the Navy the approved model was sent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on August 23, 1945. A reminder was included that the seamen's features must be altered sufficiently in the master die" so that the stamp will conform to law stating, "No living person shall be honored by portrayal on any U.S. postage stamp."
The stamp was issued on October 27, 1945, at Annapolis, Maryland, site of the United States Naval Academy.
According to official information, Edward Steichen, chief of the photographic department of the Navy Combat service, submitted the design for the stamp. There was no immediate information, however, as to when and where the original photograph was taken. Investigations found that the picture had been taken at the Naval Training Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, on November 9, 1942, and that Bob Towers had taken it.
At the time of issue, many sailors believed that they were pictured on the stamp, which featured eleven faces. Thirty years later, two Kansas City postal employees were confirmed to be part of the group—Charles Atkinson and Joseph Corbin. Atkinson and Corbin had joined the navy together in 1942, and had received training in Corpus Christi, where Bob Towers took their picture. After the war, postal employee Atkinson and photographer Towers both relocated to Phoenix, Arizona. There the stamp editor of the Phoenix Republic-Gazette, James Chemi, heard both stories regarding the 1945 Navy stamp, and he wrote an article for Gibbon Whitman Stamp Monthly. Atkinson and Corbin reunited when Atkinson returned to Kansas City in 1961.
Below is a scan of the original picture and a outlined section showing the part of the picture that made up the stamp. Sorry that part of the inscription has been cut off, but that is the way it was received.
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