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Comment on Waterless by Africa’s Historical Influences | Learning Team 1

Africa’s Historical Influences | Learning Team 1 — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:00:47 +0000

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Comment on Another Story by Brian

Brian — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:45:07 +0000

Just going through an old family album, and found a picture of what I think is Franklin Park… a photo of what looks like a class of young women posing in front of the Schiller installation. The photo is from the early 1900′s.

Comment on Let Us Build Us a City by Blog Entry #2 (Week of February 11th) « urscienceseminar

Blog Entry #2 (Week of February 11th) « urscienceseminar — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:40:10 +0000

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Comment on White City: Local Lives and a Century of Progress by aandh

aandh — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:02:44 +0000

Nick, this is terrific! Thanks for the note. Would love to see the pictures if they turn up. I did not realize that the tents survived into the 50s. Amazing.

Comment on White City: Local Lives and a Century of Progress by Nick Christhilf

Nick Christhilf — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:58:20 +0000

My mother, Marion (Fromen) Christhilf and her two sisters grew up in Rochester on Seneca Parkway. Her parents, Tony and Julie Fromen had a summer home in White City (26 Harrison Terrace.) I remember visiting the tent house in the mid 1950s…the path to the lake bordered by tall trees on each side. I have many pictures (somewhere) of my mother and her parents celebrating their summers at that once idyllic spot in the early 20th century. Your site brought back wonderful memories. Thanks, Nick Christhilf, Annapolis, MD

Comment on Vernacular Urbanism, Part III by Mark Slater

Mark Slater — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:23:40 +0000

“Slums are filled with many very serious problems and unmet needs. But many are also robust and lively communities, highly social, and offer some bit of dignity to those most cultures ignore, or cast out. As physical, designed places, they are inventive and intuitive. Slums are always reshaping themselves, always focusing on creating shelter and shared spaces that deal significantly with local circumstance – how to deal with heat, cold, rain, wind, and work, using what is at hand.”

Like most of that which is written by dreamy-eyed leftist world-changers, the underlying objective of your premise remains unclear. Is this a suggestion that today’s slums are the model for tomorrow’s cities?

Certainly Levittowns and Chicago’s housing projects leave most intelligent people feeling cold. “I still hold that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.” – G.K. Chesterton

Are these garbage heaps the only alternative? Include me out.

Mark Slater
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, USA

Comment on Unfolding the City – Memory’s Maps by aandh

aandh — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:21:26 +0000

Angela, thank you for sharing your memories of the park! Quite a place.

And thanks for the kind words about the blog. Come back any time.

Comment on Unfolding the City – Memory’s Maps by Angel144

Angel144 — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:45:57 +0000

I was surfing the net and I found this blog. What a great read! I grew up in this neighborhood, on Fulton Avenue, and, as a child, played at Edgerton Park in the 60′s to 1968. My family moved to Greece in 1968, and sadly enough, I never went back to the park after we moved.

I have so many fun memories of Edgerton Park. I remember in the summer I would be at the park every day. The recreation center had lots of fun activities for kids. On hot days, the park would set up a water slide. And in the winter, there was an ice skating rink. I remember one year, a bunch of us kids did a Christmas play in the ballroom (I forgot my lines, lol). I also remember the Edgerton Library at the corner of Backus and Bloss. The library was connected to this beautiful old building, which I think in the 1960′s may have been apartments, but I’m not sure. I see now the old building where the library was located was the South Building, Female Department of the old State Industrial School and it looks like the old, beautiful building was eventually demolished. I also remember the stone monument in front of the park with the benches. There was a bus stop there and people could sit and wait for the bus.

Of course, as a child, playing in the the park, I had no idea of the history of the park and that it once was a home to juvenile delinquents. I find the history of the Edgerton Park location really fascinating. I think someone should make a movie.

It is a shame that the neighborhood has deteriorated over the years. As a child growing up in the neighborhood in the 60′s, I remember tree-lined streets, pretty homes, and a vital neighborhood of mostly Italian families. Edgerton Park was the center of the neighborhood and kids and adults would come from near and far. It really was a special place, which I will always cherish.

Thank you for the wonderful blog. Really enjoyed reading it!

Comment on Christmas, Rochester, 1914 by aandh

aandh — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:39:42 +0000

Mike is always putting up great stuff at the Subway – keep it on your list.

Comment on Christmas, Rochester, 1914 by bonniehull

bonniehull — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:17:05 +0000

How…Yay you’re back. Those Stone photos are fabulous and Mr. Rochester Subway’s link to the photo on top of the hotel is…well…amazing.