The Postcard Challenge is back

Identify the picture. What is it? Where is it? When was it made? Who is associated with it? Why is it significant?

Contest closes Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. (unless I get an answer so amazingly good I declare a winner before then). Best answer wins, but it's got to be good...no prizes for half-baked answers. Judges decisions (that's me) are final. As usual, there will be a fabulous prize for the winner. If you've already won a prize this year, you are welcome to compete for the glory, but you can't win another prize (sorry).

Postcard Challenge

Here's some Portuguese folk dancing to celebrate...we have a winner in the Postcard Challenge. Congratulations Muppie!

Are you still at the same address?

It's Back - The Postcard Challenge

By special request, the Postcard Challenge is back. Here's the game...
This picture depicts a well-known building located in a suburb of a major city. All I'm asking is,
What is the name of the suburb?
What is the name of the city?
What is the name of the building?
What famous guy is entombed there?

Hint: it was in this suburb that one of Mister Anchovy's favourite taste treats, (popular in some areas of Toronto, too) was first concocted.

The challenge is over at 5:00 pm, my time on Monday, July 28, 2008. The best answer wins. Judges decisions are final (I'm the judge). There will be something good from the prize vault if we have a winner. Good luck everybody...

Since you all blew the mission....

...on the last Postcard Challenge, here is another. All you have to do is guess the city. Deadline is Tuesday at 6:00 pm. There will be a little sumpin-sumpin for the winner from the prize vaults. Judges decisions are final. Good Luck!

So far, nobody....

...has won the Postcard Challenge. You have one more day...

The Challenge is here in case you're just tuning in.

The Postcard Challenge is back

I know this is the moment you've all been waiting for. The Postcard Challenge is indeed back. All you have to do is be the first to identify the body of water and the nearest city, by adding your answer to the comments on this post and you win.

The prize this time out is a work on paper by Mister Anchovy (I haven't exactly decided on this one yet...it might be a digital work, it might be a drawing, who knows....)

DEADLINE is TUESDAY at 6:00 p.m. my time.

Vintage Rossland

I found this cool vintage postcard yesterday at the local pharmacy. This is Rossland's Le Roi Mine and the picture was taken in 1910 (photo courtesy of the local museum).

The back of the card gives more details. The tallest building is the "headframe." The second-tallest is the ore sorting building. The third tallest building housed the hoist. This mine was the richest in the town, and the "hoist cables ran from the hoist to the top of the headframe, and down into the main mine shaft." The mine was shut down in 1929, and the buildings are gone now. But, you can take a tour of part of the premises. For details, visit the official Rossland Museum site.

The Postcard Challenge - answers

On the first day, Shemvic nailed half the answer, identifying beautiful Salt Spring Island as the home of Valdy and Randy Bachman. I was thinking of Valdy, but of course both answers are acceptable. However, nobody got the second location and the second musician, and so sorry, no prize.

Both locations are in Canada, and I gave a clue to this when I wrote "mailed in the 70's, eh", using the cliche Canadian eh. I later gave the clue that both locations were surrounded by water. Candy Minx hit upon the idea that one is west coast and one is east coast, when she guessed Valdy and Stan Rogers. However, when I identify Stan Rogers with the east coast, it is with Nova Scotia, and the location is not in Nova Scotia.

You can see a ferry boat in the second picture, but if I used a more up-to-date postcard, you might have seen the Confederation Bridge, which would have been an obvious clue to Prince Edward Island. The musician I was thinking about is Stompin Tom Connors, who was born down there, and as well, wrote his most famous song about Bud the Spud from the Bright Red Mud, goin down the highway flyin...the spuds are big on the back of that rig, they're from Prince Edward Island.

It's back - The Postcard Challenge

Both these postcards were mailed in the 70's, eh. Each of the places depicted is in some way or another associated with a musician. I'm looking for the names of the two places and the names of the two musicians.

The deadline: Saturday midnight (unless someone gets the correct answers first)
The prize: A digitally produced artwork, made by me, printed out on genuine paper right here at Anchovy World Headquarters, and mailed to your home.

This one isn't easy, but I have faith in my readership....I think there will be a winner.

Good Luck

Postcard Challenge - two winners declared

We have two winners in the postcard challenge...east texas red and a reluctant email winner, Karen.

1. Who wrote or said this?
Sun Ra

2. Where is or was he or she from?
Saturn

3. Where is the second stop?
The second stop is Jupiter

4. What record label is this person associated with
Saturn Records

5. What did this individual call his or her race?
Mr. Ra claimed to be of the Angel Race

6. Finally, give me 5 band names associated with this individual.
The Arkestra
The Solar Myth Arkestra
The 21st Century Omniverse Arkestra
The Blue Universe Arkestra
The Jet Set Omniverse Arkestra

Thanks for playing...

One more day for the postcard challenge....

Usually there are many responses to the postcard challenge, but I guess this one is just too tough for you. One more day. There has been just one guess so far - and I really liked it even if it was incorrect. I guess I have to give a clue.

Here are more quotes by the individual I'm looking for:

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

for those who missed the original post, here it is

It's back - the postcard challenge

Yes, this is an actual postcard. I don't remember where I got it, but I've had it for a while. I've blacked out the name of the individual who wrote it.
The questions: 1. Who wrote or said this? 2. Where is or was he or she from? 3. Where is the second stop? 4. What record label is this person associated with 5. What did this individual call his or her race? 6. Finally, give me 5 band names associated with this individual.

The rules... If your name is VOX, you're ineligible for this one (well, OK, if nobody else gets it, VOX is allowed to answer)...contest is over Friday evening at 6:00 p.m....best answer wins....judges decision is final (that's me)....

the prize...I will make the winner a digital artwork, printed on genuine paper, and mail it to your home.

Return of the Postcard Challenge

Yes, it's the moment you've been waiting for - the return of the Postcard Challenge. This challenge is open until Saturday midnight, with results announced on Sunday.

Tell me about this postcard. What are we looking at? What is the object pictured made of? Who's responsible for it? Where is that individual from, and what is he/she best known for? Describe the theme. Who's responsible for the theme?

The best answer wins (whatever that means?), as determined by our panel of judges (um, that's me!).

The fabulous prize: I will create a digital image that somehow or other incorporates this postcard, print it out with my genuine inkjet printer on 100% paper and mail it to the winner.

A Clue: This is an unusual work for the fellow who made it, but then again, he was an unusual fellow.

Congratulations, we have a winner in the Postcard Challenge

SP has written in all the way from Whoville with the following response:

Okay, here goes...
It's the Avalon peninsula in Newfoundland. The postcard is of the Colony of Avalon named by Lord Baltimore in 1621. There's a significant archeological dig here which is why this site would end up on a postcard at all.
I'm not sure of the date of the postcard itself. It looks like the 40s to me, but I'm going with the 1621 date because that's when Baltimore (re)named the colony.

Here it is broken down from the clues:
Beach Blanket Bingo starred Frankie Avalon.
Canada wasn't even a dream when Baltimore founded the Colony of Avalon.
There is in fact a significant archeological dig there (hence "dig it"). In fact it is a fantastic place to visit. You can go into the lab where you can watch people cleaning and cataloguing recent artifacts, and you can see the Colony as it has been dug up.
The bird picture is in fact a Baltimore Oriole. The key was figuring that Baltimore was a person before being a place. I would have also accepted Ferryland, the current town at the site.

As for the date, the postcard says 1623 - perhaps that's the date Baltimore actually showed up at the Colony. 1621 is fine. I have no idea what year the postcard was made.

Candy Minx made a good guess, with Joey Smallwood and Newfoundland joining Confederation in 1948, and Muppie made a very creative though way wrong guess involving Allen Ginsberg and Howl.

I'll begin work on the prize. SP, to claim your prize, please email me: misteranchovy at excite.com with your mailing address and I'll send it your way in a week or so.

One more clue to the Postcard Challenge

The picture is the clue. I've laid everything out for you now. First one to get the place, the person and the date wins the prize.

Three Clues (and one reminder) to the Postcard Challenge below

Reminder: I need a place, a person and a date.

Clues
1. Beach Blanket Bingo
2. What's Canada? Never heard of it
3. Dig it

The new and improved Postcard Challenge

As regular visitors to my little island know, I've been periodically posting postcards and asking visitors to tell me something or other about them - and I'm very impressed at how quickly some of you manage to get the right answer.

This one might be a little tougher (but then again, you may surprise me - I think it's possible to figure this one out), so it's time to up the ante a little bit. From this visual clue, I'm looking for a place, a person and a date, and incomplete answers don't count. This time, there will be a prize. Give me the answer I'm looking for and I'll create a a piece of digital artwork incorporating the postcard image, print it out on 100% paper using a genuine inkjet printer, and mail it to you.

Contest closes Sunday November 4, 2007, at midnight my time. Judges decisions (that's me) are final. Only one prize will be awarded to the first visitor to come up with the answers I'm seeking. If you're all stumped (hardly likely), I might consider giving a clue.

Fun with Postcards

Today's question: Where are these people and what on earth are they up to? I blackened out the little sign that would have given it away, but I think somebody will come up with this one fairly quickly.

I'm off to play Go tonight, but I'll check in tomorrow to see who guessed correctly.

Mister Anchovy's Postcard Challenge

Yes, another postcard quiz. Today's question: Where were these made? Bonus points if you know the era too.

Since anonymous was so quick to guess the postcards....

Here's one more bit of "guess the location" postcard fun....