3618 - Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

I remember seeing the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign when I first visited Las Vegas and was a bit star struck. It's one of those things you see all the time in movies and on television shows. My first time in Las Vegas was for a conference on educational assessment (yes, it was as 'exciting' as it sounds). A colleague and myself were on Freemont Street when we stumbled upon filming for the television series, CSI - this was CSI's second or third season. We didn't see much but briefly saw one of the stars of the show. We then ran into some extras dressed as police officers and had them pretend handcuff us. The one extra had a cigarette in his mouth while he pretend to handcuff my colleague.

Ted Rogich, a local Las Vegas businessman, felt a flashy sign was needed to welcome visitors to Las Vegas. Betty Willis designed the now world famous sign in 1959. The sign was erected by Western Neon on a lonely stretch of U.S. 91 where the lights of Las Vegas still flickered in the distance. It was added to the US National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

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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 witness i

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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