Vintage Postcard Lot 3 Waving Men Cars Highway Drive Appalachian Mountains Lake

This 3-postcard lot charts the early era of high-altitude Appalachian automobile tourism. These scenes capture the primitive, unpaved, or early-paved precursor motor roads constructed along the mountain ridges before the formal building of the Blue Ridge Parkway. 

Because these winding mountain roads were narrow, steep, and treacherous, drivers frequently pulled over to let engines cool, inspect trail conditions, or marvel at deep valley vistas.