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Description: This card depicts the Great Incline at Mt. Lowe, California, captioned as 3,000 feet long. The scene shows a Mount Lowe Railway trolley car on the left and a funicular incline car loaded with passengers preparing to ascend the steep mountain grade, with wooded hillsides framing the tracks. Mt. Lowe's famous electric railway system was a popular early 20th-century tourist attraction in the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena.
Publisher: Western Publishing & Novelty Co., Los Angeles, Calif. Card No. 702 / 76948.
Posted: Posted February 19, 1932 from Los Angeles, California to Mrs. Marshall, P.M., Packwaukee, Wisconsin. The sender writes to a "Dear Friend," thanking them for a Christmas card, noting lots of rain but fine weather now, and expressing a wish to stop in at Packwaukee to see the folks again, with no certain date for when that will be. Signed with "Love to all."
