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[Old Guy]

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

[sdcforever]

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

[betamike]

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

[Zephon]

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.

[History Buff]

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

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

[Zephon]

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

[History Buff]

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

Anyone?

[Zephon]

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.

[Copper]

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

[History Buff]

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

[DocSpeleo]

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.

[Copper]

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

[DocSpeleo]

Yeah! Copper proves Doc was right! lol

hahaha