A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[rogruth]

Hondo,
I think you can still get those but now they cost a dollar.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think it is nice that you have three views of the same inn.
One of the rear would also be useful for a serious modeler.
But back when these photos were made there probably were
not many serious modelers that would care much about the back.
I suppose most of these photos of inns and scenery were made
for advertising use. ??

Would be nice if Laughlin had captured views in 360 degrees, but we are lucky that he took it upon himself to travel the area and capture what he did and to have then made so many of his photos into RPPC's. If you are interested, there is a book now, Clyde A. Laughlin, "Postcard King" of the Cumberland Valley: Biography of the Artist and Photographer and Checklist of His Postcards by Walter Lewis Cressler

[Roy]

Roger, I can remember back in the 40s and 50s when we were traveling that the places we were staying at would provide what we called penny post cards with pictures of the place we we at to mail to our friends.

I remember finding them in the desk in our room at the St. Francis in San Francisco, when I was a kid.

[healey36]

You frequently see old buildings in mountain areas constructed of that curiously rounded stone...what is that stuff? Is it native to the area? Aggregate left behind by glaciers? Walking around up there you don't see it laying about. Looks like the stuff Lowe's sells called river stone, only on steroids...

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You frequently see old buildings in mountain areas constructed of that curiously rounded stone...what is that stuff? Is it native to the area? Aggregate left behind by glaciers? Walking around up there you don't see it laying about. Looks like the stuff Lowe's sells called river stone, only on steroids...

Pretty sure that you've got it nailed - I've always noted that our best crop was stones.

[John Webster]

When we lived outside of Simsbury, Conn. there was a wall of stones like that along the back of the development that had been there long enough to grow large patches of lichen. It was about 30" tall and 18" wide. We thought it was built of stones turned up during plowing.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Roy]

Swimminig Pool.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Swimminig Pool.

Yup.

[HONDO74]

Swimminig Pool.

And in the winter it becomes an ice skating rink. Year round use......

[Roy]

Swimminig Pool.

And in the winter it becomes an ice skating rink.

Wouldn't that be an ice skatinig rink?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Swimminig Pool.

And in the winter it becomes an ice skating rink.

Wouldn't that be an ice skatinig rink?

Yup!

[HONDO74]

Swimminig Pool.

And in the winter it becomes an ice skating rink.

Wouldn't that be an ice skatinig rink?

My computer is drunk.

[J. S. Bach]

When we lived outside of Simsbury, Conn. there was a wall of stones like that along the back of the development that had been there long enough to grow large patches of lichen. It was about 30" tall and 18" wide. We thought it was built of stones turned up during plowing.

Probably was.

[Rufus T. Firefly]