1950s tourist attractions

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About 1950s tourist attractions

You remember the spots people visited before we got McDonaldized and theme-parked to death. All those down-home tourists spots that weren't created by a corporate R&D staff. If they talked about "branding," they meant putting a set of initials on steers. Where they stuck a bumper sticker on your front bumper so you could advertise for them for the next 100 miles. Kind of tacky in a lot of cases, but fun. Clean family entertainment, like alligator wrestling. Bathing beauties at Cypress Gardens. Frontiertown. Plaster dinosaurs. Rock City. Roadside America. Wall Drug. Mystery Spot. Ripley's Believe It Or Not. The Atlantic City Steel Pier. Skyline Caverns.

The pictures don't have to be from the 50s and 60s, but the place should go back that far. We're interested in the sites themselves; advertising, brochures, billboards, and bumper stickers; or souvenirs from those sites. No theme parks, no natural wonders like Yellowstone or Grand Canyon, no roadside motels/teepees -- this group is for tourist attractions built by people (or places like Rock City and the various commercial caverns, that were turned into tourist attractions by people).

Since Disneyland itself goes back to the 1950s, I've decided to allow Disneyland photos THAT WERE TAKEN IN THE 50s and early 60s. I don't want the group to be inundated with Disneyland and Disney World photos, but a few older ones are fine.