Antique & Vintage Postcards

A sweeping artist's aerial rendering presents the Hilton Inn of Macon, Georgia in its full modernist glory — a soaring fourteen-story tower of concrete and bronze-tinted glass rising from a low podium of dining rooms, banquet halls, and a rooftop terrace, the circular motor entrance court below busy with the bright chrome bumpers of 1960s American sedans, while beyond the property Macon's flat piedmont cityscape dissolves toward the blue horizon of the Georgia hills. Billed as "Living for Luxury Lovers," the 309-room property at First and Walnut Streets offered air conditioning in every room, color television — still a novelty — gracious dining, a coffee shop, and a swimming pool, positioning itself squarely at the premium end of a market being reshaped by the interstate highway system. Produced by Stein Craftsmen of Atlanta, this unused advertising card represents the confident commercial modernism of a city that reinvented its downtown in the Kennedy and Johnson years.