Now as picture postcards go, this one of the Hotel Pitter is Salzburg has captured my imagination.
It was one Dad must have picked up in his travels and sits with a few more of the same hotel, including the bierkeller.
Dad will have passed through the hotel on a stopover, as part of the guided tour of Vienna and the Austrian Tyrol, which Glenton Tours ran from the 1950s and 60s.
In all there were nine tours which ranged from Holland, the French and Italian Rivieras, to the Rhineland and Black Forest and the Swiss and Italian Lakes.
They ran through from the beginning of May to the end of September, and the brochure advised, that travelers “have the benefit of a courier as well as the services of a most carefully selected driver, [adding that]our many years of experience have proved that a women makes the best courier and that the combined efforts of male driver and female courier ensure a superb carefree holiday”.*
The cost included “your own personal seat, hotel accommodation including dinner and continental breakfast, luncheon throughout, as well taxes, service charges, gratuities to hotel staff, cross channel steamer fares and of course the multilingual courier and a guidebook”.
And the Vienna and Austrian Tyrol tour lasted for twelves days, cost £66, and took in the Rhineland, Bavaria, the Black Forest, France and Belgium with three nights in Vienna.
And day three, started at Wiesbaden and concluded at Salzburg which the brochure conceded was “rather a long days’ drive, mostly along motorways, by passing Frankfurt. Wûrburg, Nûrnburgn and Munich, [but] you will think it worth while because it allows a precious extra night in Vienna”, and that night was spent in the Hotel Pitter.
So, I am not surprised that the postcard turns up in Dad’s collection, only that it looks much older than the 1950s, and could easily have been produced a decade or even two decades earlier.
I suppose it might have been old stock, or like me the hotel just liked the stylized appearance and continued to use it.
The hotel is still there today but its online presence admits no such throwback.
Location; Salzburg
Pictures; picture post cards of the Pitter Hotel and Dad, Elizabeth, the courier and passengers, date unknown, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Glenton coach cruisers Britain and the Continent 1967, Glenton Tours, 397 Queen's Road New Cross Gate, London S.E.14
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| Hotel Pitter |
Dad will have passed through the hotel on a stopover, as part of the guided tour of Vienna and the Austrian Tyrol, which Glenton Tours ran from the 1950s and 60s.
In all there were nine tours which ranged from Holland, the French and Italian Rivieras, to the Rhineland and Black Forest and the Swiss and Italian Lakes.
They ran through from the beginning of May to the end of September, and the brochure advised, that travelers “have the benefit of a courier as well as the services of a most carefully selected driver, [adding that]our many years of experience have proved that a women makes the best courier and that the combined efforts of male driver and female courier ensure a superb carefree holiday”.*
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| Dad, Elizabeth, the courier, and passengers |
And the Vienna and Austrian Tyrol tour lasted for twelves days, cost £66, and took in the Rhineland, Bavaria, the Black Forest, France and Belgium with three nights in Vienna.
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| Pitterkeller |
So, I am not surprised that the postcard turns up in Dad’s collection, only that it looks much older than the 1950s, and could easily have been produced a decade or even two decades earlier.
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| The picture postcard |
The hotel is still there today but its online presence admits no such throwback.
Location; Salzburg
Pictures; picture post cards of the Pitter Hotel and Dad, Elizabeth, the courier and passengers, date unknown, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Glenton coach cruisers Britain and the Continent 1967, Glenton Tours, 397 Queen's Road New Cross Gate, London S.E.14
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