Tag: Edison

  • Phonographs on Postcards

    Phonographs on Postcards

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    Few of us today remember phonographs, Gramophones, or the Victrola, but nearly 150 years since their invention by Thomas Edison they fascinate us all.

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Past Article

Karen Bice
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Driving west through Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s was arduous. The road that became the Lincoln Highway (U. S. 30) was paved but there were few amenities. Then entrepreneur Herbert Paulson built “The Only Steamboat in the Mountains,” the Grand View Ship Hotel, at a sharp bend on the road with a beautiful view of 3 states.

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