Antique & Vintage Postcards

Smoke curls lazily from the chimney of the sturdy log-and-stone Glencove Inn, perched halfway up the legendary Pikes Peak Auto Highway in this richly colored linen postcard from the 1920s — a time when motoring to the summit was still a genuine adventure requiring a rest stop, a hot meal, and perhaps a steadying breath of thin mountain air at two miles above sea level. Period automobiles with canvas tops cluster in the dirt courtyard while tall Colorado spruce and fir frame the scene, and the barren upper slopes of America's Mountain loom dramatically above the treeline in the background. The inn was built specifically to serve the wave of automobile tourists drawn to the highway after it opened in 1916, and the back copy proudly notes guests could enjoy "the finest of cuisine two miles above sea level." An unused card in the classic Linen format with the distinctive arrow-and-totem graphic divider on the reverse.