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This is an unused early divided back pre-linen postcard featuring the Watch Tower amusement park at Rock Island, Illinois almost 100 years ago.
The Watch Tower featured concerts, operas, vaudeville, open-air theater, fireworks, bowling, target shooting, outdoor movies (on a canvas screen that often flapped in the breeze), balloon ascensions, and amusement rides. There was a figure-eight roller coaster (the four loops made it the first of its kind west of Chicago) and the memorable Shoot the Chutes toboggan slide, which was invented in Rock Island.
Title is "View at Watch Tower, Rock Island, Ill."
Type of Card: Monochrome Divided Back Pre-Linen
Year: From some time between 1907-1915
Publisher: Not identified
Postcard No.: 2033
Unused or Used: Unused
Overall Condition: Excellent
Bends or Creases: None
Handwriting/Other markings: Album marks in corners
$9.50 postpaid to a US address, or $11.00 postpaid to anywhere else.
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