Rocks! Overhanging rocks!
On the front: " The mysterious hanging boulder mystifies all who pass under. Polar Caves, N.H."
On the back: "Polar Caves, N.H., America's greatest Boulder Caverns. A maze of caves and spectacular rock formations. All caverns colorfully lighted. Different from and [sic] caverns you may have seen. Nothing like it on the American continent."
I love older tourist postcards like this.
Polar caves in Rumney NH is still there and still an active tourist location. Its website is, of course, http://www.polarcaves.com/. I think the hanging boulder is still there.
Viridian
6 comments:
Better late than never.
Some of the first tourist traps were rock formations located on private property. Caverns, mountains with multi-state viewpoints, rock bridges, etc. could be a "gold mine" so to speak, in the days before public parks. It was the only way most folks could experience wild natural landscapes.
Love the cheeky girl taking a photo of the person photographing for the postcard! I guess wherever there are mountains, there are caves, and rocks that overhang.
Ah...those innocent days before people worried about liability.
You matched the prompt perfectly! This one transfers the danger from sitting atop the precarious rock to walking underneath. I'd be more likely to go with this one!
I see folks are discouraged from standing under this rock and it's pretty obvious why! One little slip and you'd be mush. Ack!!!
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