The Town of Up and Down

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The Town of Up and Down Produced: 1919

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: The Town of Up and Down. Pictures in the Heart of the Ozarks. “Ponce de Leon tried to find the Fountain of Youth in the Everglades of Florida. Ponce had the right idea but the wrong address. He should have gone west, as Horace Greeley advised young men to do.” Panorama of hills and forest area. “For there he would have discovered the Fountain of Youth called Eureka Springs. Eureka is an original Greek word, meaning ‘I have found it.’” Tourists in stone line depression in ground, one filling bucket with water pouring from hole. “Where horse is King and Dame Nature rears her graceful plumes.” Horseback riders and covered wagons moving through forest - close-up of cowboy with mustache on horse. “Eureka welcomes the stranger in good old western style.” Large group of horseback riders, horses tied to rail, buggies. “Where the hand of man has claimed the wilderness, cleared and cultivated it.” Panorama of valley with farms and river surrounded by wooded hills - lake. “Houses vary from one to five stories from front to rear. No house is built on the level - all on the hillsides.” Panorama of town - terraced yard - business district, streetcar, pedestrians - streetcar rounding curve, going up steep hill. “Roads like this make Eureka exclusive. That was no excuse for Ponce staying away, for Ponce walked.” Man walking along rough stony road - cows on rutted mountain road. “Arkansas employs the men in the penitentiaries to build good roads.” Road gang, Negro prisoners, some in striped prison trousers, using hand tools. “They don’t hate to get up in the morning.” Large group of prisoners carrying tools on shoulders walking along path. “Picks cut deep and the dirt flies fast and another road is born.” Road gang working, supervisors and inspectors walking along edge of road - view of road gang and workhorse, from above. “The gang is bossed by a pardoned prisoner whose face is black, but whose smile is golden, and he’s called ‘Goldie.’” Close-up of smiling Negro. “Wide, hard-surfaced and built on the south side of the hill where the sunshine will keep it hard and dry.” Automobile traffic on mountain road. “Imagine the luxury of driving your auto over a granite road like this.” Traffic on road. “Higher education for Crescent College, a select school for girls is on the highest hill in Eureka.” Panorama. “Straw hats to fur coats and back to straw hats again. Autumn fades into winter and winter into spring in less than a minute. Watch closely and see if it doesn’t.” Pictures of countryside taken during different seasons. “Little Jill rode up the hill and then rode down again, accompanied, as you can see, by several other little Jills.” Group of girls on horseback leaving college campus, riding up mountain trail, picnicking near large rock. “Life around Eureka is just one curve after another.” Horseback riders, truck with people in back, stagecoach moving down mountain road. “The fellows who write those popular songs about girls, must have visited Crescent College.” Costumed couples dancing on lawn - group of laughing costumed girls. “The end of a perfect day.” Horseback riders going down mountain trail. [1919]

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