Magical Mystery Postcard #1

Took me an embarrassingly long while to puzzle-out Magical Mystery Postcard #1.

Thank Goodness I will never know how few micro-seconds it took each of you to snap your fingers.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Possibly a battle torn ship in dry-dock? /s/ Gary

It looks like one of the largest Zeppelins that Germany had used in "The First Blitz"; taken maybe out the window over a body of water??
I'm going to take a wild guess of the year of this card being 1916-1918

I flipped it on it's side and then I used software to "sharpen" up the image so I think I got it close?

It looks to be some kind of freight carrier off in the background, looks to be in a harbor someplace? Perhaps Germany?

Observe doctored image:

Many years ago, I was dressing for a religious observance and decided to wear a new long-sleeved dress shirt. I got one sleeve buttoned and, as I twisted and turned, felt that all-too-familiar bad feeling in my back.

Astonished & puzzled that I had managed to throw my back out while donning a shirt - and leaning against my work table in some discomfort - I looked down my arms and saw that this shirt had TWO LEFT SLEEVES.

Thereafter, I wore it every chance I got, and could not wait to show people what I had come to call My One Thousand Dollar Lord & Taylor Dress Shirt. People would encourage me to return it, or would assure me that I could get my money back, but that was hardly my point.

If I ever needed a few bucks in a hurry, I figured I could stand outside of any Lord & Taylor store on the planet, show my two-left-sleeved little beauty to shoppers heading in & out of the store, and wait for the manager to come ask me what it would take to get me to surrender My One Thousand Dollar Lord & Taylor Dress Shirt. Exactly.

And that was exactly the memory that had me bursting out loud laughing as I twisted & turned & twirled this card - and, sadly, my head & neck - as I tried to get it the right way round so's I could figure-out what I was looking at.

I can't quite figure-out why a mooring point would be off-shore; maybe they'd suffered a torrential downpour on an ordinary landing field - we are discouraged from driving on puddles precisely because we can never know the water's depth - and what seems to be a freight carrier in the distance is actually a building?

Gary: I only wish that some of my guesses had been as sober as yours.

Jeff: When I get a round tuit, I will Flickerize a few military humor cards and, if one suits you, you can claim it as your prize.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Great story, Ikey

That was a good story and thank you! Is that what it was on the card Ikey? A Zeppelin of some sort?

You think *I* know?

The best I can reliably work-out is "probable airship, with reflection on water, probably docked".

Now that the fun part is done, Jeff, how about posting your vastly improved image to an SCF Zepps thread?

https://goscf.com/t/17722 might do

Maybe somebody there will recognize/not the engine cowling, etc.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

If it is an airship, the most probable location would be the Graf Zeppelin mooring over Lake Constance, the first time in aviation history it was moored over water:

http://www.itnsource.com/jp/shotlis...GX407160574/

Who, but wt1?

The imagery is so alike that I would be tempted to think that the postcard was printed from an outtake of the newsreel, were it not for the fact that the newsreel appears to have been shot from a boat (showing the cabin of the airship) and the postcard appears to have been shot from the cabin itself.

Compare the sloped structure in the background of the postcard with the (?) docking station at 0m19s in the newsreel:



Compare the underside view of the airship in the postcard with 0m25s and 1m14s in the newsreel:





The card would look pretty good mounted next to a digital picture frame looping the newsreel, eh?

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey (still dreaming of someday becoming wt2)

ikeyPikey, that last signature literally made me laugh out loud. Thankfully I wasn't drinking coffee at the time.

Hey, man, we all need a goal in life.