Balanced Rock, Rock City Gardens ~ Linen type postcard, C.T. Art-Colortone Deluxe, Curt Teich & Co., Chicago, Illinois, production number 8A-H325. Manufactured in 1938 and unused but with a message written in 1953. Overall: VERY FINE.

Rock City is a roadside attraction near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, located near Ruby Falls. It is well-known for the many barns throughout the Southeast and Midwest United States that have the slogan "See Rock City" painted on their roofs and sides. John Garnet Carter, entrepreneur and the inventor of miniature golf, intended to develop a residential community on Lookout Mountain to be named Fairyland. His wife, Frieda Carter, set out to develop the property into one big rock garden, taking string and marking a trail that wound its way around the giant rock formations, ending up at Lover's Leap. She also planted wildflowers and other plants along her trails. She imported German gnome statues and other famous fairytale characters, set up at spots throughout the trail. Garnet Carter realized that his wife had made an attraction that many people would be willing to pay for, and they made Rock City a public attraction in 1932.

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