Description
This postcard features a view of Pikes Peak Avenue in Colorado Springs. It highlights the Antlers Hotel and the surrounding area bustling with cars and people. Dated June 23, 1939.
Front Text (verbatim):
539 Pikes Peak (Alt. 14,109 Ft.) from Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, (Alt. 6,072 Ft.), Colorado
Back Text (verbatim):
Pike's Peak Avenue is a broad and stately street pointing directly toward the Peak from which it is named that looms above it. At the west it terminates at the Antlers Hotel whose graceful towers form a perfect "sight" like those on a rifle for the view of Pike's Peak. In the summer season it is thronged with visitors of every station in life from every state and country for the Avenue is the center of tourist activity. Few who have traversed its broad pavements will forget it as it is one of the most impressive spectacles in the world.
