Category Archives: New York

#TBT Watkins Glen Waterfalls Vintage Post Cards

Minnehaha Falls with Cavern Cascade in the Background Arthur E. Richards, Watkins Glen, NY Genuine Curteich Chicago
Minnehaha Falls with Cavern Cascade in the Background
Arthur E. Richards, Watkins Glen, NY
Genuine Curteich Chicago
Rainbow Falls, Watkins Glen, NY
Rainbow Falls, Watkins Glen, NY
Published by Arthur R Richards, Watkins Glen, NY
Outstanding beauty spot is Rainbow Falls. Here is a scene 50,000 years in the making. Late in the afternoon is this thrilling spot of Watkins Glen brilliant rainbows flash in the summer sun.
Colorcraft Made by the Dexter Press, Pearl River, NY

 

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#tbt Artpark in the late 70s/ early 80s.

Artpark had a long history prior to becoming the first state park devoted to the arts. The First Nations people originally lived in this area and a burial mound dating over 2000 years old is located on the grounds of Artpark. Explorers Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M.  and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, landed on the site in 1678. The first cabin built by white settlers was completed in 1720. By 1764 there was a British fort and a cable run railway that was used to ferry supplies up the escarpment. The 1800s saw the building of a large estate (destroyed by fire in 1965), a suspension bridge linking Lewiston & Queenston was built, and a sandstone quarry operated on the land. By the middle of the 20th century the land was largely used as a dump for both Chemical companies and the state.

The state took over the land and what is now known as Artpark (official name is Earl W. Brydges Artpark State Park) was officially opened in 1974.

Niagara '79
(back of postcard) ARTPARK, Lewiston NY. An exciting two-hundred acre visual and performing arts center, located six miles from Niagara Falls and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation.

In 2017 Niagara ’79 designed by Gene Davis was reproduced in the same parking lot.

From the Kickstarter campaign created by Artpark and Company:

In the summer of 1979 Artist Gene Davis (whose estate is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum) installed an Artwork titled, Niagara ’79.  It came to be known as The Painted Parking Lot and it was incredible.  Gene Davis spent weeks hand rolling sixty, 2-foot wide by 364-foot long lines in 9 different colors.  This artwork was widely covered by the media and everyone in the community came out to experience it. At over 43,000 square feet, The Guinness Book of World Record’s hailed it as the largest painting in the world at the time.

Now that same parking lot is covered in black top with standard white parking lines. With permission from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Artpark is launching a campaign to recreate Gene Davis’s Niagara ’79 in that same parking lot using his exact design. Artpark has been working with Sherwin and Williams and will use the same industrial paints found on the runways at airports, in specially formulated colors, to make this project come to fruition.  Armed with 18 inch paint rollers and miles of masking tape Artpark Adventure Staff and a group of volunteer professional painters will spend the month of May 2017 hand rolling lines just as Gene Davis did. JOIN US!

Artpark
Drawn by Buffalo based artist Julie Lewizky (back of postcard) ARTPARK, Lewiston NY. An exciting two-hundred acre visual and performing arts center, located six miles from Niagara Falls and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation.

Julie Lewizky is still producing her fancifal artworks.

(back of postcard) ARTPARK, Lewiston NY. An exciting two-hundred acre visual and performing arts center, located six miles from Niagara Falls and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation.

The big wooden building (the Art-El) was demolished after nearly 40 years of use. It was both a fun and scary structure for children and I spent many days running amok on it.

 


Collection of Artpark Visual Arts Catalogs | eBay

1980 Artpark program- The JOFFREY BALLET | eBay

PLAYBILL PROGRAM Hamlet 1975 Sam Waterston Ruby Dee John Lithgow Artpark NewYork | eBay

Artpark 1974-1984
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#tbt Retro postcards! 1 of I don’t know how many

Our Lady of Sorrows Convent and High School,
Our Lady of Sorrows Convent and High School, Tulsa Provincial Motherhouse of the Sisters of Her Sorrowful Mother, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Photo by Bob Hawks, Inc, Henry McGrew Printing circa 1981 (Person used a first class Rachel Carson 17 cent stamp to mail)
Powell Street Cable Cars
Powell Street Cable Cars Busy cable cars climb the steep, terraced Powell Street Hill at twilight time, San Francisco, CA Smith Novelty Company, 460-9th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Mike Roberts Color Productions 1981
Aerial View of the Syracuse University Campus, Syracuse, NY Pub by the Wm. Jubb Co., Inc. Syracuse NY Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers, Inc. Boston 15, Mass USA Circa prior to 1963
The Golden Dome A main landmark in Ogdensburg, NY is the Edgar Allan Newell Field House, a sports arena which was dedicated in 1972. Nicknamed the “Golden Dome” because of its golden geodesic roof, the building is adjacent to Ogdensburg Free Academy where it is used for athletic activities including hockey, figure skating, and indoor track. The Dome is used by the Community for large scale concerts and exhibitions related to the annual observance of International Seaway Festival Week. Pub. by Betty Steele photography, Ogdensburgh, NY 13669


1929 SYRACUSE NEW YORK Syracuse University Panoramic View Post Card #1895 | eBay

Circa 1906 Leather Postcard SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Lady with Pennant RARE | eBay