Street Views from Istanbul

A few more picture postcards in both black/white and colours!

Reference is made to an earlier posting about the same metropolis, Constantinople/Istanbul:

Old Constantinople/Istanbul

We’ll now leave behind the period before the First World War and move into the post-1945 world. I have quite a few of these picture postcards—in fact, many more than I am posting—so these are the choices I made.

Across the Galata Bridge

Sadly, this one is impossible to date—it was actually mailed but the stamp is in very bad condition; it shows the Galata Bridge across the Golden Horn. If you care to go back to the first posting in the Constantinople/Istanbul series, there is a postcard that shows the point of view from the other side of that bridge, albeit some 20-30 years earlier:

This postcard was mailed in 1957, according to the stamp on the reverse.

Although undated, the below black and white postcard shows the same bridge from a quite different point-of-view:

One more picture postcard of “the very busy Galata bridge” towards Istanbul. Mailed in 1961, it also shows the Yeni Mosque from which the above picture was apparently taken.

Other Streets, Sights, and Marvels

First up, Aksaray Square and Valide mosque, dated (mailed) in 1960.

Shown below, by contrast, is a “view from Dolmabahçe”, mailed in 1971:

Finally for this posting, a postcard showing Taksim Square, located also in Galata:

Given the other postcards on my hard-drive, I suspect this Constantinople/Istanbul series has two or three more postings—depending a bit on whether or not you would like to see “more” images from Türkiye!