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Front: Color chrome view of the Climatic Hangar at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. The enormous test building fills the frame with its broad low-pitched roof and massive braced steel rolling doors, their cross-bracing and truss work running the full width of the opening on rail-mounted bogies. Building number 580 is painted high on the end wall. Low white support structures and a tall stack stand at either side, a lone figure and a yellow tug sit on the vast concrete apron, and the whole stands against a deep blue sky.
Reverse: Divided back, unused, printed in blue. Caption at upper left: \"The Air Proving Ground Command\'s Climatic Hangar at Eglin AFB, Florida is a mammoth test complex capable of all types of weather found anywhere in the world. Main chamber can house two football fields. Temperatures can be controlled from minus 65 degrees to plus 165 degrees Fahrenheit. Towns offering hospitality to Eglin Air Force personnel include Fort Walton Beach, Valpariso, Niceville, Crestview and Milton, Florida. Photo by Arturo\'s Studio.\" Center credit: \"Genuine Natural Color Made By DEXTER PRESS, Inc., West Nyack, N. Y.\" Lower left: \"Pub. by Rudolph Back Specialty Co., Pensacola, Fla.\" with print code 90139. Stamp box carries the Dexter script mark. A pencil price notation reading \"2.00\" appears near the top, a later dealer mark. The Air Proving Ground Command name dates the card to before 1968.
Condition: Unposted with strong color and a clean front. Light edge wear and minor corner softness, faint toning at the edges of the reverse, no creases or stains. The only marking is the pencil price. Gray panels at right are scanner artifacts, not defects.
