If you read the title of this post and thought “Sil­ver Dol­lar City,” you were only one-third right. True Dol­ly­wood and East Ten­nessee his­to­ri­ans will remem­ber that before Dol­ly­wood or even Sil­ver Dol­lar City came Gol­drush Junc­tion. And, while writ­ing this post, I dis­cov­ered that the attrac­tion orig­i­nally opened as “Rebel Rail­road” in 1961 (Wikipedia: Dol­ly­wood).

Why all the nos­tal­gia? While I was clean­ing my office this week, I dis­cov­ered an old brochure from Gol­drush Junc­tion. I’ve posted scans on my Flickr account if you would like a closer look:

Photo com­pos­ite by Michael Wender