Book Review: Clyde A. Laughlin: Postcard King of the Cumberland Valley
Walter Lewis Cressler, Jr., Clyde A. Laughlin: "Postcard King of the Cumberland Valley" (self-published, 2000) viii, 45 pp. appendix, illustrated. Paperback $16.95.
Laughlin, Clyde A.
A Year in the Life of a Village: Oakville 1910
It was a good day for Shippensburg photographer Clyde Laughlin to take photographs of Oakville because there were no leaves on the trees. Mr. Laughlin produces post cards from the photos he takes of the towns and villages of Cumberland County. His camera captures a horse and buggy traveling towards him on Main Street, and the two young boys who are peering over a fence watching what he is doing. The white-washed Rail Road Crossing sign post warns people to Stop, Look, Listen.
Wolfe’s Tourist Home, Restaurant, General Store and Post Office: Walnut Bottom
With the coming of the automobile in the first decades of the 20th century, travelers took to the roads, and tourist homes sprang up to cater to their needs.