"Anyone for a ride?" (H.F. in Barbados, October 1953)
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"My daughter and the youngest boy eagerly await the first outing with the Wisa-Gloria pram." (The Fankhauser family, Curityba, Parana, Brazil)
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"Anna and I in our backyard,where we sometimes listen to your broadcasts on a fine evening." Ernst und Anna Zulliger, Cumberland, Wisconsin, US)
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"Crossing the Steppe on a draisine ". (Ferdi Pfister, H. Meier, Beira, Portuguese East Africa)
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"Estate, Campinas, Sao Paolo, 1951."
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"Greetings to the shortwave service - Easter hunt in Olmoloc" (Tanzania) 1938.
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"Your Melbourne listener A. Adler, with a real little Koala bear, one of the pets in a Wild Life Sanctuary near Brisbane Queensland, where I went for Christmas Holidays, 1952."
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"Our Swiss cows, January 1933". (Augusto Gähwiler, Lezama, Argentina)
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"The last days of rest in my home in Brazil. The neighbour's boy looks at the Schweizerspiegel magazine. This boy was given away by unknown people (Brazilians) who never came back for him! " (Frederic Fankhauser, Curityba, Parana, Brazil)
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"28.8.1958. Myself and one of my grandsons taken in a main street of Joinville Est. S.C. I'm sending you this so you do not forget me. As you see, I have bought another Lambretta for cruising around in. Greetings from the bicycle city. Jacob Bachmann snr. in Brusque, Brazil."
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"Dear Isabelle, hoping you will make many more happy, by your lovely announcing". (Carl A. Millar)
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"Camp atmosphere at night in the Tinejdad oasis, southern Morocco." (Arthur Bouhélier, Casablanca)
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"August 1, 1952 [Swiss National Day]. In Lebanon you don't go hungry!" (Hannelore Baer)
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"Hoa Binh (Indochina), August 1, 1951. My Chinese friends." (Ewald Aemisegger, Fés, Morocco)
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"1949: A failed attempt at photographing the Christmas tree. It looks terrible but was in fact wonderful." (Fred Maierl, Deschênes, Canada)
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"Peterli the tomcat and the tortoise Joggeli Buume were transported to Switzerland by plane in March 1948 and were reunited in Richterswil." (Charles Schlosser, Long Island, US)
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"This is our kitchen." (Gähwiler family, Lezama, Argentina)
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This year the internet portal swissinfo.ch is marking its 75th anniversary. The Swiss shortwave service was set up in 1935 and was renamed Swiss Radio International (SRI) in 1978. Listeners from all over the world were very motivated to write in, as a look in our archive reveals. (Christoph Balsiger, swissinfo.ch)
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