Things That Are No Longer There

Demolished in 1982 and replaced by the current Sheraton Newfoundland. I have some of their old dining room silverware

While scanning some postcards today, I discovered that Onomea Arch on the Big Island collapsed during an earthquake in 1956. Not a stamp, but I thought it might be a worthy bump for this thread.

Lebanon
1st June 1971
defs
Maameltein Bridge

destroyed by Israeli bombing 4 Aug 2006.

Wonder Why

India 1957 Centennial of Kolkata University, Kolkata [10P]

Egypt
Great Library of Alexandria
October 16, 2002
Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. It was established during the first century BC and was in service for ca. three centuries.
The design in the souvenir sheet is based on a XIX-century rendering by German artist O. Von Corven.

US Scott 1452 issued 1972:





Shows first and original Filene Center which burned to the ground beginning April 4, 1982; by April 5th, before the flames were out, POTUS Reagan called to offer support to Catherine Filene Shouse who founded and gave to the USNPS her Wolf Trap farm.

The show must go on and it did with the 1982 season under a massive tent originally built in the United Arab Emirates which was dissembled and shipped to Wolf Trap by the Government of Saudi Arabia at a cost of $100,000 as a show of good will to Ms. Shouse. It was used until the new Filene Center, nearly similar, was opened to the public by early 1984 with the first performance of the new season, named the "Filene Center Dedication," occurring on June 20, 1984.

In support following the fire, this stamp #2018 was issued September 1, 1982.

the district Zaryadye in the very center of Moscow was reconstructed in the 1930s. Initially, it was planned to build the 8th Moscow skyscraper in place of the old small houses.



Construction began after the war, but later the construction of a high-rise building was abandoned, and the architect Chechulin designed the hotel "Russia" on the foundation of the high-rise building.



In 2006, the hotel was demolished and the Zaryadye park was established in its place. Its decoration became the Soaring Bridge on the Moskva River

Here is the 1 1/2c value (Sc #268) from South-West Africa's 1961 "Country Motives" pictorial definitive series. Stamp depicts the "Reiterdenkmal"/Equestrian Monument which used to stand in Windhoek. The bronze statue was made in Berlin during the German period of occupation. It was inaugurated on January 27, 1912 (Kaiser Wilhelm II's birthday). The bronze plaque below the statue mourns the 124 Germans killed during the Herero and Namaqua uprising/genocide, but fails to mention the 35-100 thousand indigenous Herero, Nama and San people who died because of it. It is estimated that up to 80% of the native tribespeople of Namibia perished in the conflict, many by starvation.

Not surprisingly, the statue was moved in 2010, and finally put into storage in 2013.

South Africa
Bloemfontein 150 National Philatelic Exhibition
October 9, 1996
The stamp (from souvenir sheet) depicts mail ship S.A. Oranje. She served under the flag of South Africa since 1969 and was scrapped in 1975.

Speaking of ships that no longer exist, there is this one...

There are stamps with the world trade center, that no one showed here. Is it a sensitive issue that should not be brought here?

Nice to see this topic come back after so many years.


No, please bring up anything that you feel appropriate. (Persons not living right now would not be useful, as there would literally be millions of options for those.)

World trade center (the twin towers)
Hope none of them are cinderellas.

Rob, thanks for posting the WTC items. There are some good memories also. This is where I went on senior cut day way back in 1987, we were probably too loud and obnoxious making fools of ourselves. I once brought a girlfriend from Texas into the city to see the sights. As we moved onto the elevator I asked her if she knew how many floors we were going up. She guessed 70, I told her it was going to be quite a bit more than that. A friend I used to know got engaged at Windows on the World, a restaurant that was near the top of one of the towers. Last time I was at the WTC before 9/11 was about a month before, I was walking around with a co-worker from Rhode Island after a meeting. He had never been down there I still remember him standing in the plaza just looking straight up, they were impressive. So there are still some good memories.....