A great photo of main street Timaru, looks like around Christmas time. It's a city of about 30 000 people. European settlement here began with a whaling station in 1839. An artificial port was created in 1877 to act as a breakwater. Timaru is an agricultural service town and a port. It is one of the major cargo ports on the South Island. Processing, packing, and distributing meat, dairy, and other agricultural produce is a large part of the economy.
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...

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