Poking around the other day I found a couple of new postcards. As you know, I’ve got a fondness for the old Liberty Memorial Bridge. This card features the bridge from way back…even before it connected to west Main Street! I’m too young to remember this, but I sure can appreciate it.

This incredibly blown-out and oversaturated post card is very important to me. Look at the top of the tower to see why: it’s got lights hanging from the top edge of the capitol tower! It actually wasn’t until I discovered an older postcard of the capitol that I discovered this interesting tidbit. I thought the tower had always been lit from below. I was wrong.

Here’s a postcard I bought last year, the one through which I made my illuminative discovery. I’m so glad they light the tower from below now; those lights on the top look really cluttered! I bet it was no picnic changing bulbs, too!

I’ve got a couple more interesting old Bismarck postcards to share soon. Stay tuned!