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Black Bear Trail Postcard

Don Bailey spends a lot of time looking for old artifacts in libraries, at collectors’ shows, on the Internet and wherever else such stuff might lie in wait. At one point on his self-appointed rounds he ran across this old postcard from August 1936, which testifies that the Black Bear Trail was more than just a pipedream of tourism promoters.

A tinted photo of a scene along the unpaved highway between Blowing Rock and Boone, in the mountains of North Carolina. A Model A Ford is shown receding into the distance toward Boone.
The card, dated August 9, 1938, is addressed to Mr. Bobby Stutts, Eagle Springs, N.C. The message: We're still up har in these here hills but haven't found any gold yet. We're having a grand time mixed with plenty of work. The mountain air is fine. Guess it is peach season down there, eh? Don't work too hard. Best wishes. Auman & Hinson.

In those old days, postcards were called “penny postcards,” requiring only a 1-cent stamp. Can you imagine? And we wonder who Auman and Hinson were, and what work were they doing in “these here hills?”

Artifact courtesy of Don Bailey.

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