Looks like a peaceful and pleasant Sunday on Riverside Drive in this turn-of-the-century penny postcard.
I can’t quite make out what game the girls in the center are playing. Leap frog?
Tags: New York City in 1900, New York City penny postcards, Riverside Drive 1900, Solders and Sailors Monument, Upper West Side history
Ephemeral New York 
July 13, 2010 at 2:50 pm |
Like most of Central Park this is a whole different place without the trees having grown in yet, isn’t it?
July 14, 2010 at 4:15 pm |
I doubt girls would’ve played leap frog (dresses get in the way). I’m guessing they are playing “jacks”. One girl is standing, while the other is “picking up”.
July 14, 2010 at 6:42 pm |
Cully, the monument isn’t in Central Park, it is on the West Side…the open sky beyond is because the Hudson River is there.
July 16, 2010 at 3:50 am |
It looks to me, too, that the girls might be playing jacks.
July 16, 2010 at 4:10 am |
I’m aware that it isn’t in Central Park, I was comparing it to Central Park. For instance, have you ever seen any photos of the Egyptian Obelisk before all the trees, grew in? When these places were new, and the landscaping was short, the experience was a bit different. That’s what I’m saying.
August 18, 2010 at 12:54 pm |
Well Cully, Trees grow but I’d rather have trees than expensive, exclusive condo high rises blocking my view of the skies.
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