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Posted: 25 Feb 2019

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Grand View Point Hotel

Grand View Point Hotel
Sign on building: "Grand View Point Hotel."

Road sign: "Lookout Point Grand View. Allegheny Mountains, elevation 2464 ft. Lincoln Highway."

Handwritten caption at bottom of photo: "Lookout Point Grand View. 17 m. W. of Bedford, U.S. 30. CEG."

This is a real photo postcard showing the Grand View Point Hotel sometime between 1927, when it was built, and 1932, when it reopened after being transformed into the Ship Hotel, which became a popular tourist attraction along the Lincoln Highway.

See also a cropped version of this photo for a better view of the original hotel and a later photo of it as the Ship Hotel.

Grand View Point Hotel (Cropped)
Grand View Ship Hotel—A Steamer in the Allegheny Mountains

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 Deborah Lundbech
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Incredible! At first I thought it might also qualify for the "accident waiting to happen" as those back views make it look stomach - droppingly precarious, but after reading about the construction - wow! I guess they secured it appropriately!
An amazing story. Wonder of any of the family ever wrote a book - the ledgers alone must be astonishing.
Did you - or any of your family - ever see this hotel, Alan?
5 years ago.

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