Naval Disasters on Postcards, Please

June 14th, 2004 · No Comments

I took a trip yesterday to Quassy, a nice little amusement park in central Connecticut, to check out their photobooth. I also stopped in Meriden for what I thought was a big postcard sale, but turned out to be a mid-sized stamp sale with a few postcards on the side in a conference room in the far reaches of a very much under renovation hotel.

I observed stamp collectors and dealers for awhile, which is always the most fascinating part about a show like that, and my desire to make a documentary about postcard collectors and dealers was rekindled.

In other news, two great UK records were broken this weekend. A man finally beat all of the horses in the great “Man vs. Horse” race in Wales, and Richard Branson broke a 40 year old record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel by amphibious car. Brilliant.

Tags: Noted · Photobooths