strasburg

I became fantasized by this picture of the first Mail by Highway bus picture found in the Smithsonian Institution photo stream. I had previously taken a picture of a Post Office Highway bus at the Roanoke Transportation Museum ( www.flickr.com/photos/lynchburgvirginia/2403169609/in/set... ) which added to my interest. My colorized interpretation is below.

Cool. Added to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Post_Office Thanks for posting these!

Peter D. Tillman Thanks, Pete! Appreciate you providing a link. Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

And the then- and current Strasburg post office is visible in the background! This is a great photo.

Thanks for letting us know, @PMCC Post Office Photos!

Cologne

Not Cologne: the cathedral there is next to the railway station and near a river. This feels vaguely like Brussels, but that's really only a guess.

Paul Mison Not Brussels, I think. In modern photos of St. Gudula Cathedral, and from what I see on the Wikipedia page, it has symmetrical towers, and a vaulted window over the front-middle section. This cathedral has a tall column & a short one — possibly due to war damage, but it still looks different than St. Gudula — and there seems to be a round rose window.

Antwerp?

The Cathedral of Our Lady seems to be a match — taller tower on the front-left, partiallly-round rose window at the front-middle. And the surrounding buildings look similar.




I'm not totally convinced yet, but it's the closest match I've been able to come up with.

Strasbourg! A friend lived just over the road from the cathedral and sent me a postcard; looked familiar, I thought....