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Postcards · circa 1925–1938

Thunderbolt, Savin Rock, Conn.

Hotels, streetcars, amusements & the West Haven shoreline

A souvenir view of the Thunderbolt’s dense timber structure, with the track rising above a pier over the shoreline.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States. Wikimedia Commons marks this US postcard PD-US-no-notice. Date range belongs to the postcard catalog description. Do not use it as proof of an exact ride opening date. Resized if needed and JPEG-compressed. No crop, rotation, colorization, retouching, or generated content.

Source: The Harold Hahn Company. Historical postcard scan on Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States.

Thunderbolt, Savin Rock, Conn.
The Harold Hahn Company. Historical postcard scan on Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States.. circa 1925–1938. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Savin Rock, SGC-SR-012, SR-006, “Thunderbolt, Savin Rock, Conn..” Source: The Harold Hahn Company. Historical postcard scan on Wikimedia Commons. Public domain in the United States.. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thunderbolt_Savin_Rock_Postcard.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.

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