# The Town of Up and Down

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…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1919
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-2452)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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