The Carriage Cavalcade at Silver Springs, Florida, 1950s

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The Carriage Cavalcade at Silver Springs, Florida, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Two children stand before a horse-drawn cart at a roadside attraction in Silver Springs, Florida, where the main business was showing tourists antique carriages and cars in a shaded park setting. The canvas banner behind them announces the exhibit with the certainty of a man who had decided that people would drive considerable distances to see old conveyances parked under live oaks. A man in a plaid shirt and hat manages the operation from the driver's bench, overseeing what was, in the 1950s, a perfectly legitimate family outing: paying to stand near history that had been dead for fifty years. The attraction relied on the assumption that novelty and nostalgia could coexist in the same parking lot, and that Americans on a Florida road trip would choose to spend time looking at carriages instead of swimming or eating. By the 1960s, most such roadside museums had closed, having discovered that the public's appetite for stationary displays of horse equipment was seasonal and finite.

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