What do you want to see at a tourist destination? Postcards of people looking at things. If these mid-century postcards are any guide, you want to see other people (often wearing red) and what they’re looking at, which if often tantalisingly out of frame.
Let’s see what we can find…
Anyone else thinking Blair Witch Project?
View Taken Inside The Crown, Statue Of Liberty, New York
Mark Twain Cave, Hannibal, Missouri
Thousand Islands International Bridge, NY
Above: The young woman in white and on the right used to be best friends with the woman in blue on the left. But then the blonde woman in grey turned up and she had to hang out with her mom and aunt.
The Ringing Rocks, Pennsylvania
Wright Cycle Shop, Dearborn, Michigan
Fish Viewing Room, Rocky Reach Dam, Washington
Below: If Alfred Hitchcock did postcards.
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Cumberland Mountain, Tennessee
Horsecollar Bluff, Leakey, Texas
Brockway Mountain Drive, Michigan
And now for two from our Not In The Least Bit Creepy Kids section.
New Brunswick, Canada’s Motourland, Restigouche River
Thompson Canyon, BC
Santa Elena Canyon, Texas
Tunnel Of Snow, Mt. Hood, Oregon
Cabin Interior, Lost River State Park, West Virginia
Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska
Whiteface Mountain, New York
Above: Is she thinking about when Bob cheated on her with Joan? Is she thinking that if it wasn’t for that photographer on her shoulder, Bob would never again see Joan? Is Joan taking the photo? Did she know Bob was with Mary?
Kancamagus Highway, New Hampshire
Greenhill Lookoff, Nova Scotia
Pleasant Bay, Nova Scotia
The Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Spotter: ElectroSpark
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