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Yeah, the funny thing is that old pictures of a place that is designed to look old may have a somewhat muted impact.  These places are supposed to look kind of beat up, both then and now.

There's another one that's kind of cool, but my mom's in it so I probably shouldn't post it. 

The funny story is that we just celebrated my parents' 50th wedding anniversary, and their wish was to go to Silver Dollar City with the family.  Completely unrelated to that, I asked them to bring their old photo albums to the hotel in Branson so I could scan some old family photos for my own collection.  (I live out of state and don't come to Missouri very often.)

As we were looking through the photos, we were surprised to see that their honeymoon 50 years earlier had been to Silver Dollar City.  They hadn't really thought about it either until we saw the photos.  I thought the symmetry of two visits 50 years apart was kind of cool.

Another.  This is at Marvel Cave, I think.

Another one.

And another.

Here's another one.

Some of you with an interest in old photos might appreciate this.  My parents honeymooned in Silver Dollar City in May of 1960, right after the park opened.  I just sent these photos to the marketing department there in case they're interested, but thought I'd post them here too.

They'll be in the next few posts if I can't post them all here.