Antique & Vintage Postcards

Chrome-era aerial postcard of the Mississippi Gulf Coast — a long sweeping view from above showing the white sand beach stretching to the horizon, the four-lane US Highway 90 running parallel just inland, and dense pine forest beyond it reaching toward Biloxi Bay, with a fishing pier extending from the beach into the blue Gulf water. The back identifies this as the world's longest man-made beach — 300 feet wide and 26 miles long from Biloxi to Pass Christian — built along the route of the Old Spanish Trail. Highway 90 was the main artery of the pre-interstate Gulf Coast, lined with motor courts and seafood restaurants catering to postwar American road travelers making their way along the Southern tier.