January 18, 2025
Tag: Lincoln Highway
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The Grand View Ship Hotel
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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…
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Sidney Russell, a kid from Passaic, New Jersey and Carl Sigman, a law school graduate from Brooklyn, wrote a lively tune in 1947 called, “Ballerina.” Vaughn Monroe popularized it the same year. As best we can, Postcard History has used postcards to illustrate the emotion of dance, so as Monroe sang, “Dance Ballerina, Dance!”