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4402 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

This is a Postcrossing meetup card that took place in Stow, Ohio in October 2025. It looks like about 16 people attended.  The photo on the front if is the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. It runs through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (Ohio's only national park) and it located 16 kilometres from Stow, Ohio

3680 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Another lawn bowls card! Love it. Just like in the previous post, the sender hasn't been on Postcrossing for a year. She got up to the 70s for sent/received cards. 

3388 - San Ramon, California, United States of America

San Ramon is a city of 85 000 located in the San Ramon Valley, near San Fransisco. On a hill overlooking the San Ramon Valley is Memorial Park. Memorial Park was named to honour local resident, Tom Burnett, and all those killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks. Flight 93 was a Boeing 757-222 plane flying from Newark, New Jersey, to San Fransisco. About 45 minutes into the flight, hijackers killed a passenger and struggled with the pilots to take control of the plane. Passengers, having learned of the suicide attacks earlier in New York and Washington, decided to try to take back the plane. In the ensuing struggle, the place nosedived into a field about 105 km south west of Pittsburgh. All 44 passengers and crew, along with the terrorists, were killed.  The terrorists planned to fly the plane into a federal government building in Washington. Memorial Park is 16-acres and includes a play area, a BMX course, a picnic area, a bocce ball court, horseshoe pits, a ball field, and a dog ...

2353 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lisa doesn't mention if she is a hockey supporter or not, but I'm going to talk about the Pittsburgh Penguins anyway. The Penguins are Pittsburgh's second National Hockey League (NHL) franchise, the first being the Pittsburgh Pirates who were in the league five seasons (1925-26 - 1929-30), before moving to Philadelphia to became the Quakers (they only last one season before folding. The Penguins were a part of the 1967 expansion which saw the league double from six teams to twelve. Along with Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Fransisco-Oakland, and St. Louis. Minneapolis-St. Paul relocated to Dallas and San Fransisco-Oakland relocated to Cleveland, who then merged with Minnesota.  Philadelphia was the first expansion team to win the Cup, winning it twice in a row in 1974-1975. Pittsburgh became the second to win a cup from this expansion class in 1990. Minneapolis-St. Paul were the third but did it as the Dallas Stars in 1999. Los Angeles fina...