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Postcard
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Title
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Charlotte on Lake Ontario, the Coney Island of Central New York
Description
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Postcard from a birds-eye view shows the lakeside amusement park near the height of its popularity. The green-roofed building near center likely is the Hotel Ontario, a connection between the area's past as a resort during the 1870s-80s, and its increasing emphasis upon larger crowds of day visitors by the 1890s. (The railroad at left was an important factor.)
The amusement park featured a midway, roller coasters, a slide that went into Lake Ontario, a sandy beach, and not least other people to watch. In 1916 the City of Rochester annexed Charlotte and purchased the amusement park two years later. After a fire in 1919 it was torn down, and it's possible the conflagration at upper right references this event, in which case the postcard's original artwork was modified. All that's left of the amusement park is its Dentzel carousel, which remains in operation a century later.
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Rochester News Company
Date
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1907-1915
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Cooper, Ken
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Further reading: Kyle Somervile, "'This is Where I Like to Go': The (Re)creation of Place at Ontario Beach Park," <a href="http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/~rochhist/v75_2013/v75i1.pdf"><em>Rochester History</em> 75.1</a> (2013): 1-36.
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jpeg, 666 KB
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Type
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Postcard
Amusement Park
Charlotte, NY
Lake Ontario
Post Card
Recreation
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Original Format
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Postcard
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3.5 x 5 in.
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Title
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Along the Beach at Charlotte, NY
Description
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Postcard depicts Lake Ontario Shore looking east toward the mouth of the Genesee River. At left is a sailboat moored at the West Pier; the red-roofed building at upper center may be a resort hotel called the Spencer House. Along the boardwalk and beach we see visitors of all kinds, including a dog.
From its beginnings as a resort during the 1870s-80s, Charlotte hosted ever-larger numbers of visitors via train and by 1900 was primarily an amusement park often compared to Coney Island. After annexation of Charlotte in 1916, the resort eventually was torn down due to longstanding concerns about "immoral" behavior--coded language for its numerous saloons. Today the area is known as Ontario Beach Park.
Publisher
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Souvenir Post Card Co.
Date
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1905-1914
Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
Source
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Courtesy Ken Cooper
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jpeg, 649 KB
jpeg, 276 KB
Type
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Postcard
Amusement Park
Charlotte, NY
Genesee River
Lake Ontario
Post Card
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Original Format
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Postcard
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3.5 x 5 in.
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Contributor
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Cooper, Ken
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Courtesy of Ken Cooper
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jpeg, 664 KB
jpeg, 363 KB
Title
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The Ferry, Charlotte NY
Publisher
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Rochester News Company
Description
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Operating a ship named the "Windsor," the Charlotte and Summerville Ferry Company ran a service between those two towns located at the mouth of the Genesee River beginning at least in 1877. Passenger use climbed with trolley lines running along both sides of the river by century's end and a developing tourism scene lakeside. <br /><br />The "Windsor" shown here was built in 1894 and powered by a steam engine pulling it back and forth across the 500-foot river's mouth attached to a chain line. A trip lasted about seven minutes. The ship carried vehicles and had 200 life preservers on board. Due to increasing use of the Stutson Street bridge upriver, the "Windsor" ferry finally was shut down in 1927. <br /><br />Source consulted: Leon R. Brown, <em>Transportation News</em> 5.1 (Aug. 1927): 24-25, via New York Museum of Transportation, <a href="http://www.nymtmuseum.org/headends/04fall/OnTheWatreFall04.html"><em>Headend</em> (Spring 2004).</a>
Date
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1907-01-14
Type
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Postcard
Amusement Park
Charlotte, NY
Ferry
Genesee River
Lake Ontario
Post Card
Summerville, NY