A view of Lainville

 

Lainville-en-Vexin is a village not far from Paris,  I think this is a charming way to present a view of the village.  If you look closely at the carriage, you'll see a bicycle hidden behind.  I like to think that the photographer perhaps stopped the carriage and asked if they would pose for a photograph,  

Colouful costume

 

Here is a lovely illustration of a Slovakian costume.  We had several beautiful postcards by this illustrater.  This is the last one left.  Our future daughter-in-law is Czech and one of her grandmothers is Slovak, so I'm hoping to give it to her as a present.

Roses

 I chose this postcard because we haven't had many real flowers around this year.  This is an embossed postcard.  Roughly translated the inscription reads "Sent from a friend of the heart".

The Casino at Mont-Doré

 

Casinos in the past were very different to our idea of a casino today.   Wealthy people would go to places like Mont-Doré to take the water cure. There is still a Casino at Mont-Doré.

Nestor Moehr, Perfumerie de Monte Carlo

 

Nestor Moehr was a creator of perfumes. The perfumes Lotus Bleu and Capucine were only two of his creations.  Looking online for information I found an empty Lotus Bleu perfume bottle and a boxed bottle of unopened perfume from the 1930s. I wonder what it would smell like today.

I also found a very interesting blog post on Nestor Moehr , Perfumerie de Monte Carlo.

Poulbot's children

Three postcards illustrated by Francisque Poulbot for the “Ligue National contre le Taudis” (League against squalor) which came into being in 1927.

Here you see children discussing the size of fleas, a pig in the larder, and two children talking about the dreadful smell in an apartment being two dead rats under the mattress. They are beautiful but heart breaking postcards.

Later ‘Poulbot’ became the name for the poor children of Montmartre; descendants of the original children that inspired his paintings.

Catskill Mountains

This card was posted to France in 1935. A lovely sunset in the Catskill Mountains in New York State. Apparently it was a popular destination for New Yorkers in the mid twentieth century and is popular with painters writers and musicians even today. The mountains are no stranger to the film industry featuring in Woodstock, Tootsie, Dirty Dancing, Casper Meets Wendy,  to name a few.
Information taken from Wikipedia