2429 - Bristol, Connecticut, USA

James sent me a card showing an aerial view of both sides of the Niagara Falls. He says the Canadian side is better. He also says its the only time he's been in Canada, which is funny for living so close to the border.

Bristol is located 32 km from Hartford, and about 160 km from New York City. Bristol is where you will find the general studies for ESPN (which is Bristol's largest employer, and is location of Lake Compounce, the United States' oldest continuously operating theme park. Bristol's nickname is the "Mum City" because is was once a leader in chrysanthemum production and still holds the annual Bristol Mum Festival, first held in 1962.

The Bristol Blues, a summer collegiate baseball team, play at Muzzy Field. Muzzy Field was built in 1912 and is one of the oldest ball parks in the United States.

Lake Compounce was opened in 1846 and has a beach and water park called Crocodile Cove. It has the 14th oldest wooden roller coaster in the world. It's newest roller coaster, Boulder Dash, has won the Golden Ticket Award for the #1 Wooden Coaster in the World for five consecutive years.

The original park had a public swimming and rowing lake, a gazebo for lakeside band concerts, and several rides.

Gary Burghoff, Radar O'Rielly from the television show M*A*S*H, was born here

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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