Brilliant and busy, this linen-era card shows the legendary Saltair Pavilion on the Great Salt Lake in its mid-century heyday — dozens of bathers bobbing impossibly high in the famously buoyant brine, flanked by swaying potted palms, a thrilling roller coaster silhouetted against a tangerine sky, and the Moorish onion dome of the grand pavilion gleaming red and gold above it all. A sender named Alberta dashes off an irresistible note to "Mr. and Mrs. W. [last name redacted]" in Port Huron, Michigan: "Read this — I have been in here swimming… you can't sink in here — you float like a cork — having one swell time — Alberta." The Saltair resort, first opened in 1893, was one of the great pleasure palaces of the American West; this second Saltair building (rebuilt after the 1925 fire) was itself later destroyed by fire in 1970, making period postcards a vivid memorial to a vanished wonderland.