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Silver Dollar City & Celebration City Discussion => SDC Memories/ Park History => Topic started by: Old Guy on June 13, 2008, 03:20:46 PM

Title: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: Old Guy on June 13, 2008, 03:20:46 PM

Here is some great documentation of the real old site
http://www.hbw.addr.com/marvelcavepc.htm

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: sdcforever on June 13, 2008, 03:33:00 PM

Those are really cool postcards.  Hard to believe the humble beginnings of SDC and Marble Cave.  Thanks for posting the link! :)

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: betamike on June 13, 2008, 04:32:42 PM

Kind of makes all the stories that we read about it being a real tourist destination before SDC even more real.

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: Zephon on July 29, 2008, 11:18:01 PM

Oh man, that whole Harold Bell Wright website is fantastic.  I just spent the last 2 hours skimming through it and I've just touched the surface.  I've bookmarked it to return later.  Thanks for providing the link.

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: History Buff on July 29, 2008, 11:32:24 PM

Here are some pics of some pics from on the wall in the waiting area for the cave tour:

(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii154/MrHoggatt/Silver%20Dollar%20City/Marvel%20Cave/17.jpg)

(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii154/MrHoggatt/Silver%20Dollar%20City/Marvel%20Cave/18.jpg)

(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii154/MrHoggatt/Silver%20Dollar%20City/Marvel%20Cave/20.jpg)

I'll throw this one in for old times' sake.  This is just the old group picture staging area:

(http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii154/MrHoggatt/Silver%20Dollar%20City/Marvel%20Cave/25.jpg)

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: Zephon on July 30, 2008, 11:47:06 PM

Cool pix, HB.  Those wouldn't be of Jack and Sherry would they?

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: History Buff on July 31, 2008, 12:05:58 AM

In the words of Sgt. Schultz, "I know nothing."

Anyone?

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: Zephon on July 31, 2008, 12:18:47 PM

In the second picture, the woman seated behind the chair that says Marvel Cave sure does look like Mary Herschend.  And the woman in the first picture does look a bit like Sherry.  I can't be sure though.

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: Copper on August 01, 2008, 10:13:55 PM

Yes, that is Jack and Sherry with Mary and Ron, Bruce and Jim.

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: History Buff on August 01, 2008, 10:29:11 PM

OK, exactly what's going on in those pictures?

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: DocSpeleo on August 03, 2008, 09:07:01 PM

Not sure but it looks to me like a home inside the cave - maybe when the Herschends lived in Marvel Cave during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: Copper on August 04, 2008, 12:29:10 AM

Publicity stunt during that time. The family stayed in the cave for about a month. Good publicity, they were in Asian newspapers.

Title: Re: Marvel Cave Tea room and other aincient pre SDC stuff
Post by: DocSpeleo on August 04, 2008, 08:30:22 AM

Yeah! Copper proves Doc was right! lol

hahaha