2543 - Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

This tourist card from Cologne shows the Hohenzollern Bridge. It was originally built between 1907 and 1911 and was named after the House of Hohenzollern, the rulers of Prussia and the German Emperors. It was a very important bridge during World War II and the allies tried to severely damage it on several occasions. As the Allied troops approached Cologne in March of 1945, Germany military engineers blew up the bridge on 6 March 1945. Allied troops were just beginning their assault on Cologne at the time.

After German's surrender in May, the bridge was make operational on a makeshift basis and reconstruction began almost immediately. By May 1948, pedestrians could use the bridge again. It was finally reconstructed by 1959.

In the 1980s, the bridge was converted to a rail, bicycle, and pedestrian bridge. Today the bridge has 1200 train pass daily over it.

Love padlocks became a thing at the bridge in 2008, where couples lock a padlock on the rails of the bridge. It is estimated there were over 500 000 locks on it in June 2015.

On the eastern side of the bridge the German Alpine Association maintains a public climbing facility with a wall area of about 850 square meters since 1998.

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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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