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 Blowing Rock - Tweetsie Railroad Trestle555 viewsFrom a 1960s postcard.Apr 16, 2008
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 Blowing Rock- Tweetsie315 viewsThis 1960s postcard shows the Golden Nuget Saloon at the Tweetsie Railroad Amusement Park.Apr 04, 2008
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 Blowing Rock - Rock House349 viewsThis 1912 postcard image sows the Rock House on Yonolosee Road near Blowing Rock.Apr 04, 2008
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 astc1936.jpg296 viewsYhis 1936 postcard shows the campus as it was then. This school is now Appalachian State University.Apr 03, 2008
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 Boone - Black Bear Trail245 viewsFrom a 1930s postcard. This is now US 321 from Boone to Blowing Rock.Dec 27, 2007
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 Boone - Watauga Handcraft Center308 viewsFrom a 1960s browntone postcard.Dec 27, 2007
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 Blowing Rock - Country Club247 viewsFrom a 1940s post card.Dec 27, 2007
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 Blwong Rock - Lake on the Cone Estate263 viewsPostmarked August `1930, this postcard shows the lake on the Moses Cone Estate near Blowing Rock.Dec 27, 2007
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 Blowing Rock - The Palace at Tweetsie259 viewsThis 1960s postcard shows the dance hall girls at Tweetsie's "The Palace." On a visit there in the early 1960s one of these girls planted a big old kiss on my Dad causing him no little amount of grief, although he had nothing to do with it.Dec 27, 2007
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 Deep Gap - The Old Homestead339 viewsFrom a 1969 postcard.Nov 10, 2007
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 Foscoe - Cabbage Field274 viewsIN the 1960s, Watauga County was home to a Kraut cannery, which generated several cabbage fields.Jul 24, 2007
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 Blowing Rock - Camp Yonolosse324 viewsThis circa 1915 real photo postcard shows a group of early tourists riding horseback at Camp Yonolosse, near Blowing Rock.Jul 23, 2007
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