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Yesterdays-Paper — Drive Thru Tree - 1910
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Vintage souvenir view post card -
Circa early 20th century
Undivided back, golden age
Early automobile drives through a giant tree in Humboldt county CA.
dated on reverse in pencil "J.M. 1910", "Bobbi" "W."
Once upon a time promoters of California’s tourism industry devised a clever way to entice visitors to see the captivating beauty of the redwood forests — cut a tunnel through a redwood and charge people a fee to drive their cars through to the other side. It was a great photo opportunity that quickly caught on.
In time there were drive-thru trees, drive-on trees, walk-through trees and even step-thru stumps.
Today, three trees with open trunks remain.
All are privately owned, charge a nominal entrance fee and are open daily year-round.
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Hollows can occur naturally but the conditions have to be just right.
Recently we had to cut up a pine tree that had half blown over in the wind, and even though the outside bark and branches had been healthy, the core pith wood at the base had gotten a fungus that turned it soft as cork. Now, if a tree happens to grow very stocky, initially, with a thick base by the time of infection, the pith can rot away completely and then a squirrel chews through on a thin spot to make a shelter, which then gradually widens, and you then have a natural hollow in a living tree.
Ours, however, was simply too top heavy to last long enough to become hollow, not in this wind.
Some woodsmen studied how a tree can remain alive with such hollows and experimented with how to open them up without killing them so increase the tourist potential.
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