This black and white vintage postcard shows “The Narrows” in Cumberland, Maryland. The Narrows is the name for a beautiful and picturesque valley that passes through a gap in the mountains with high cliffs on either side at one point. It is a thousand-foot natural gap between Wills and Haystack mountains. This valley has become […]
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The Narrows Park Cumberland Maryland Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard is dated 1909 and shows The Narrows Park in Cumberland Maryland. I lived there for some years, but am not sure where this park is. This may be an old marker from the Braddock Road in the center of the pond. I liked that the photographer caught a deer in the picture.
Entrance to The Narrows Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard is dated 1910 and is titled “Big Rock Entrance to The Narrows, Cumberland, Maryland.” The scene shows the Western Maryland railroad line curving around a rock with a sheer, almost vertical cliff to enter The Narrows, the valley cut between the mountain cliffs. This being the railroad entrance to the valley and […]
Lovers Leap Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard is dated 1909 showing an historic cliff in Cumberland, Maryland called “Lovers Leap”. This cliff has been the stuff of local legend in Cumberland for generations. From Harold Scott, Sr. (Compiler), Legends of Allegany County, Cumberland, Maryland, 1994, p.vi we get the following history of the cliff: In Cumberland, Maryland the Lovers’ […]
Braddock Park Vintage Maryland Postcard
This vintage postcard shows a recreation park in Cumberland Maryland called “Braddock Park” in the early 1900s. Shown here is a pastoral summer view of men, with the straw hats of those days, relaxing in the tree shaded park meadow. This postcard is also #12 from The Braddock Road Series by John Kennedy Lacock, Amity, […]
Hikers on Big Savage Mountain Vintage Maryland Postcard
This vintage postcard shows hikers resting close to the summit of Big Savage Mountain, near Frostburg, Maryland in the early 1900s. While there are level spots on the Eastern side of the mountain, the Big Savage Mountain is rocky as the picture shows, and in many places, extremely steep. The descent is very rugged, and […]
Old Tahoe Train Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows an old Lake Tahoe train locomotive called, the No. 1 Glenbrook, at the Train Museum in Reno, Nevada. No. 1 Glenbrook was the name of the train that ran the “narrow gauge line” between Truckee, California and Lake Tahoe, delivering visitors to the lake. People could come up from the San […]
Lake Tahoe Tavern Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows the Lake Tahoe Tavern which was built in 1901 and has been a famous vacation retreat for Tahoe seekers since then. Just one quarter of a mile south of Tahoe City, California, it is on the western shore of Lake Tahoe surrounded by the immense pines and backed by the beauty […]
Sunrise over Emerald Bay Lake Tahoe Vintage Postcard
This vintage postcard shows Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe and is approximately thirty to forty years old (based on the lack of buildings on the shoreline). It was found in an antique store in Lake Tahoe, shellacked onto a piece of varnished wood. The view is from a mountain vista point above Emerald Bay, on […]
Chicago Illinois Vintage Postcard
The original postcard shows a view of Chicago, Illinois in 1833 from a painting which is signed “Widney” done in 1903. This may be Gustavus C. Widney an illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post during that time. Today most are familiar with Chicago as a bustling metropolis on the adjacent land to Lake Michigan. But […]