This week's Sepia Saturday theme peripherally involves a lighthouse on an antique postcard... and I just happen to have a fitting entry in my collection, sent to my paternal grandmother seven years before my father was born.
Family historian though I am, I have no idea who cousin Camilla was. She must have been related to Jessie Bentley's relatives on the Daniels or Orr sides.
This park, and specifically the presumably decorative lighthouse, prove to have been popular postcard fodder. Here's a bit more information about the park from another card...
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And lastly, from Ebay, here's another copy of the card at the top of this page, sent a few years later to a Miss Vanderhoff at the Shredded Wheat Company in Niagara Falls!
A breathing spot - haven't heard that phrase before. I've heard of taking a breather though.
ReplyDeleteJust one lovely place, and yes I can totally understand a breathing spot, for beauty through peaceful times!
ReplyDeleteEnchanting place. I can see why it was so often used on postcards -- a well photographed spot.
ReplyDeleteA popular choice as postcard subject, wasn't it? I note that nighttime view depicted on the first postcard, dated 1912. I've noticed there was a craze for night views in that pre-War period, especially in the UK, but after the war, it practically disappeared.
ReplyDeleteA lighthouse on a lake! How unusual - maybe it was for midnight rowers :)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it ever worked?
This would be a lovely spot for a visit.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Detroit and spent many hours in Palmer Park. I think the lake was more of a pond. I remember a full sized log cabin and a small stone castle, doll house size, built near the pond but I don't remember the much postcarded light house at all. I googled and see the log cabin is in disrepair and the castle and light house are still there. Wonder what else I've forgotten?
ReplyDeletePerhaps I look it up when I'm in Detroit next month.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely looking place. If I had lived in Detroit you can bet I would have visited Palmer Park! As it was, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area (east bay) & we used to go to Lake Merritt in Oakland or Lake Anza in Berkeley's Tilden Park. I especially liked Tilden Park because they had (& still have) a wonderful merry-go-round there.
ReplyDeleteI have a photo of me at age 25 sitting on a merry-go-round cat in Tilden Park! Visiting a friend in Emeryville.
DeleteSurely for decoration only?
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