BIKINI, Barcelona. Concert of "Skid Row", American heavy metal band (2004)

BIKINI
Barcelona

Skid Row

Ticket Nº 2274297
06.04.2004, 22:00
20,20 €

Skid Row is an American heavy metal band formed in 1986 in Toms River, New Jersey. Skid Row was reformed in 1999, with Johnny Solinger.

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CREUERS DELTA DE L'EBRE. Deltebre (Baix Ebre), Catalunya, Spain

CREUERS DELTA DE L'EBRE
[Ebro Delta cruises]
www.creuersdeltaebre.com

The Ebro delta forms a natural park of 7,736 hectares. It has been protected since 1983, protection extended in 1986.

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COMPAÑÍA METROPOLITANO DE MADRID, Spain. Ticket (1986)

COMPAÑÍA METROPOLITANO DE MADRID

Metro ticket 115-95 Nº 34195
31.01.1986

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ÖSTERREICHISCHE BUNDESBAHNEN. 2 months ticket, from Innsbruck HBF to Salzburg HBF, Austria (1986)

ÖSTERREICHISCHE BUNDESBAHNEN

2 months ticket Nº 1187-08 581243 from 18.08.1986
From Innsbruck HBF to Salzburg HBF
km 255
276,00 S

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ROMERO, Bar - Restaurante. Museros, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain (1986)

ROMERO
Bar - Restaurante
Carretera Barcelona, 48
Museros

Advertising postcard published by Domingal, Massamagrell, 1986.

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VALENCIA, Spain. Tramways in Porta de Serrans. Postcard (1930s)

VALENCIA
Tramways in Porta de Serrans.

Postcard published by JDP, Valencia (1930s).

On 23 June 1876, Valencia's first tram, powered by horses, linked the city with its Grau port. The construction work on the first tram infrastructure in Valencia was carried out between 1887 and 1888. The first line that was put into service, on 21 November  1891, connected the Empalme station in Burjassot with Bétera, with a length of 14.7 km. On 7 July1892, the second line was inaugurated, between the current Pont de Fusta and Grau stations, with a length of 5.8 km. The tram network was successively expanded. In 1917, the Compagnie Générale des Tramways de Valence (Spain) Société Lyonnaise, known as La Lionesa, and the Sociedad Valenciana de Tranvías, which had been established on 16 January 1885, merged and the Compañía de Tranvías y Ferrocarriles de Valencia (CTFV) was born. The rise of Valencian trams occurred in the 1940s and 1950s and their decline began in 1957 as a consequence of the great flood that affected the city, and from then on the progressive disappearance of the tram as a means of urban transport began. In 1986 FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana) began to operate the city's new trams.

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ATAC, Roma, Italy. Tram, motrice 2115 a Porta Maggiore. Postcard (1986)

ATAC - Azienda per i Trasporti Autoferrotranvieri del Comune di Roma
Tram, motrice 2115 a Porta Maggiore.

Postcard published by Ediz. M.C.S., Torino, Nº 8717.
Photo: 24.08.1986.

These trams were built between 1930-1934.

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COMANAV - Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation. Le "Marrakech". Calendar 1999

COMANAV - Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation
Le Marrakech
Tanger - Sète - Tanger

Calendar 1999.

The Marrakech is a ferry built in 1986 by Chantiers de l’Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire (France) for Comanav. It was launched on 23 November 1985 and put into service on 21 May 1986 between Tangier and Sète. In January 2013, he was detained in Sète following the bankruptcy of Comanav, and in April 2014 he was sold at auction to the company Prodomo in Casablanca. Its length is 126.78 m and its length is 20.35 m. It has a capacity for 634 passengers and 224 vehicles.

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B/M "Vicente Puchol". Compañía Transmediterránea, Spain. Advertising postcard (1969)

B/M Vicente Puchol
Compañía Transmediterránea

Advertising postcard published by Fotografía Industrial, S.A. (1969).

The Vicente Puchol ship was built in the shipyards of the Unión Naval de Levante, in Valencia, launched on 27 April 1968 and delivered to the Transmediterránea Company on 8 January 1969. It was a mixed cargo and passenger ship, with a capacity for 400 people and 60 cars. She set sail from Valencia, on her maiden voyage to Ibiza, on 11 January 1969 and continued sailing on bound for Alicante. She later covered the lines between Ibiza, Barcelona, Valencia and Alicante, and later the lines from Malaga and from Almería to Melilla. In 1980, the Vicente Puchol was de facto withdrawn from the active fleet of the Transmediterránea Company, being used exclusively in occasional services. After some unsuccessful sales attempts, on 14 January 1986 it left Ceuta bound for Palma de Mallorca, where it was dismantled at the Levante dock and in December 1986 it was sold to the Greek shipowner Attika Shipping Co., who used it for cruises in the Aegean Sea under the name Arcadia. In 1988 she passed into the hands of the Italian operator Star Lauro who renamed her Angelina Lauro and used her for cruises between Venice and the Aegean. In 1992, recovered by Attika, she was chartered by Central de Cruceros for cruises to Seville, on the occasion of EXPO92, with departures from Barcelona and Valencia. In March 2000 she was chartered by Great Lakes Cruises Inc. to cruise the Great Lakes of Canada and the United States during the summer season of 2001. In 2002, after the suspension of payments by Great Lakes Cruises, on 14 July, the Arcadia was seized and moved to Montreal to be sold at auction. On 6 December of the same year, she was auctioned and reacquired by Attika Shipping through its instrumental subsidiary Anaconda Maritime Inc., which renamed the vessel Caribic Star for Caribbean cruises. Later, under the name Coco Explorer 2, it passed into Taiwanese and Filipino hands, to date.

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APARTHOTEL PERLAS, Sant Antoni Abad [Sant Antoni de Portmany], Eivissa, Balears, Spain. Advertising postcard (1986)

APARTHOTEL PERLAS ***
Ctra. Port des Torrents, s/n
Sant Antoni Abad

Advertising postcard published by Publintel, Barcelona (1986).

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ROMA. Il piacere di scoprirla d'inverno. Advertising postcard

ROMA
Il piacere di scoprirla d'inverno
[The pleasure of discovering it in winter]

Trinità dei Monti snowfall in 1986.

Advertising postcard published by Citrus Promotion 
for the Tourist Center of the Municipality of Rome.
Limited edition, Nº 0808.

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ICITOURS, Agência de Viagens. Porto, Portugal. Calendar 1986

ICITOURS
Agência de Viagens
Rua Oliveira Martins, 167
4200 Porto

Calendar 1986.

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MARCO ISLAND AIRWAYS, Florida, USA. Martin 4-0-4 plane. Postcard

 

MARCO ISLAND AIRWAYS
Martin 4-0-4

Postcard by Mary Jayne, M1416.
Photo Courtesy AeroGem Slides.

Marco Island Airways was formed in 1972 and commenced scheduled flights in 1973 from Miami International Airport. Initial scheduled services were flown between Miami and Marco Island on Florida's Gulf Coast. Services were added to Tampa in 1980 and to Lakeland, Florida in 1981. The airline was acquired by Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA) in 1984 and its operations were fully merged into PBA during June 1986.

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КРАСНОЯРСКОЕ КУГА / АЭРОФЛОТ, Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union. Calendar 1988

40 КРАСНОЯРСКОЕ КУГА 1986 / АЭРОФЛОТ
[40 Krasnoyarsk Kuga 1986 / Aeroflot]

Calendar 1988 (9.1985).

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B/M "JUAN MARCH", Compañía Transmediterránea, Spain. Postcard

B/M JUAN MARCH
Compañía Transmediterránea

Postcard published by Souvenirs Chipa's / Escudo de Oro, Barcelona, Nº 6569 (1972).

The ship Juan March was built in Valencia by the shipyards of the Unión Naval de Levante, for the Compañía Transmediterránea. She was launched on December 4, 1965 and entered into service in July 1966. Her overall length is 130.80 m, and her beam is 19.25 m. Initially she had capacity for 500 passengers in berths and 250 in seats. In 1985 Transmediterránea sold it to Sol Mediterranean Services Ltd., of Cyprus, which called it Sol Christina, and in 1986 it was bought by another Cypriot company Opal Lines, which called it Kipros Star and kept it in service until 1989. Later it became owned by Shipping and Commercial Corp. and had various names: Ocean Majesty (1989 - 1995), Homeric (1995) and, again, Ocean Majesty (since 1995).

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BASELLAND TRANSPORT (BLT), Switzerland. Postcard

BASELLAND TRANSPORT AG (BLT)
BE 4/6 234 + 238 + B3 1333 + B3 1341
Ettingen, 11.03.1986

Postcard by Aktion Pro Sächsitram, Zürich, 2/96.
Foto Bernhard Eng.

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FERRY "CIUDAD DE TARIFA" leaving the port of Algeciras (Andalucía), España. Postcard

FERRY CIUDAD DE TARIFA
saliendo del puerto de Algeciras [leaving the port of Algeciras]

The ferry Ciudad de Tarifa was built by the Unión Naval de Levante, in Valencia, for the Compañía Transmediterránea. She was launched on October 7, 1959 and delivered on April 12, 1961. She was assigned to cover the lines of the Strait of Gibraltar, especially between Algeciras and Tangiers, and occasionally made trips between the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. On March 9, 1984 she was sold to the Greek company Agapitos Brothers, from Piraeus, who renamed her Apollon, and in 1985 she was renamed Corfu Island. On May 20, 1986, while being repaired in Perama (Piraeus), due to an accident it sank and could not be refloated: it remained 32 years under the waters of the port of Perama, and was finally recovered on June 11 2018 to scrap it.

Postcard by A. Subirats Casanovas, Valencia, no. 9 (1963).

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P&O "SEA PRINCESS"

MV "SEA PRINCESS"
P&O Cruises

Postcard bt P&O Cruises.
Photograph by Paul Campbell.

Swedish ship built in the 1960s and named “Kungsholm”. In August 1978 the ship was handed over to the British-American company P&O, and she would be extensively rebuilt into almost a completely different looking in Bremen (Germany) by Vulcan Shipbuilders & Machine Factory. Officially renamed “Sea Princess”. On January 20, 1979 she departed the Bremen shipyard and headed for her homeport of Southampton (England). The new MV Sea Princess accommodated 750 passengers in comfort and in style and she was registered as being 27,670 GRT. When she arrived for the very first time in Southampton and she was made ready to sail, her first passengers boarded, with most of who were bound either for Singapore or going all the way to Sydney (Australia) to replace one of P&O retiring ships.

In November 1986 the “Sea Princess” was transferred to Princess Cruises, and externally the only visible change was that the funnel was painted all white with the typical Princess blue Sea Witch logo on it. Princess cruises gave her an extensive refit upgrading her lounges but especially her cabins.

On Australia’s Bi-Centennial Day’s celebrations in 1988 the “Sea Princess” was anchored in the middle of Sydney harbour opposite the Sydney Opera House and close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

In 1995 the Sea Princess was transferred back to P&O UK fleet and was renamed “Victoria”. After seven years with P&O and with new ships being built it was in 2002 that the MV “Victoria” was sold by P&O to a Greek Company by the name of Leonardo Shipping, being officially registered in the Bahamas. This company purchased her mostly to charter her to other operators. She was renamed MV “Mona Lisa” and her funnel was painted white with a large oval painting of the famous Mona Lisa.

The “Mona Lisa” was quickly taken up and chartered by a German company named Holiday Kreuzfahrten and she operated for them for four years, until they were declared bankrupt in September 2006. “Mona Lisa” was laid up at Piraeus, Greece for just a few weeks, during which time her funnel was repainted in that famous Maroon-red colour scheme. In November she was again chartered and she headed for Doha in Qatar for the Asian Games, and there she was used as a Hotel ship until January 1, 2007. Thereafter she was chartered by Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCI) who renamed her “Oceanic II” for their purposes.

Soon she was transferred to Pullmantur Cruises, being is a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean International (RCI) for the 2007 northern hemisphere summer season and thus hey repainted her funnel in the Pullmantur traditional blue funnel as well as the logo along the ships hull. Having returned to Pullmantur Cruises she continued operating cruises for the Spanish market, however it became known that the Scholar Ship organisation was in need of a ship and they decided to charter her. She was refitted to become an educational ship for the Scholar Ship international education program, being a cooperative venture between seven major world universities and RCI.

In June 2008 returned to the Leonardo Shipping Company and her previous name “Mona Lisa” was restored as well as receiving a comprehensive refit. Once again she was returned to the German charter market and another far more successful tour operator now took charge of the “Mona Lisa”, this being the Giant; Lord Nelson Seereisen. This agreement ran from April 28 to August 31, 2008.

Mona Lisa was to continue her cruises with Lord Nelson Seereisen in 2010 from May until August. However, the tragedy was, just with so many great classic built ships her future was uncertain for she no longer complied with the new SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea) regulations that came in effect in October 2010, thus it was decided to sell this forty four year old ex classic liner and cruise ship.

The Mona Lisa sold to DSME of Oman and she is currently in Oman renamed “Veronica”. She has been rebuilt into a luxury hotel ship and will be berthed in the port of Duqm. The completely refurbished “Veronica” now offers just 261 luxury rooms all of which and are comfortable and spacious with every possible amenity. Hotel Veronica officially opened in July 2011.

GERMANY, tramways (Geman Democratic Republic,1986)

GERMANY
Stamps of the Geman Democratic Republic,1986.
Tramways of Dresden (1886), Leipzig (1896), Berlin, 1910,
and Halle (1928).

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KURHAUS-CAFÉ-RESTAURANT. Königstein im Taunus (Germany)

KURHAUS-CAFÉ-RESTAURANT
Inh. Familie Steiner
Hauptstr. 21
6240 Königstein im Taunus (Germany)

Publicitary postcard by Schöning & Co + Gebrüder Schmidt, Lübeck, sent 27.03.1986 from Königstein im Taunus to Duisburg,

Tarjeta postal publicitaria de Schöning & Co + Gebrüder Schmidt, Lübeck, circulada el 27.03.1986 de Königstein im Taunus a Duisburg,

Targeta postal publicitària de Schöning & Co + Gebrüder Schmidt, Lübeck, circulada el 27.03.1986 de Königstein im Taunus a Duisburg,

Carte postale publicitaire de Schöning & Co + Gebrüder Schmidt, Lübeck, circulée le 27.03.1986 de Königstein im Taunus à Duisburg,

Cartolina pubblicitaria di Schöning & Co + Gebrüder Schmidt, Lübeck, viaggiata il 27.03.1986 da Königstein im Taunus a Duisburg,

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Merci à Lysiane