DESCRIPTION:
Subject: Miniature sail boats on Centennial Lake Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Condition: Very Good (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: Yes
Year: 1909
Publisher: Philadelphia Postal Card Co.
Postmark: May 1, 1909, Philadelphia, PA
"Once upon a time — actually only about 50 years ago — there was a breathtakingly beautiful greenbelt in the heart of Philadelphia known as Fairmount Park.
Throughout its 9,200 acres — 4,100 of them running along the east and west banks of the Schuylkill River — the park’s lush green rolling hills were complemented by sparkling streams and clear underground springs. For decades, visitors came great distances to fill their bottles with the park’s clear spring water.
As a frequent childhood visitor, Fairmount Park was to me and my friends a wondrous and awesome playground.
As city-born and -bred youngsters, we marveled at the large and very imposing statue of Moses near the park’s 52nd Street entrance, with the water magically flowing from the rocks, and the huge columns and statues dedicated to the nation’s dead from the Civil War just a short walk farther south.
We explored the leftover structures from the 1876 Centennial Exposition that had commemorated the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Prominent among them was Memorial Hall where Alexander Graham Bell had first publicly demonstrated his newest invention: the telephone.
We watched in amazement the waterfowl, and fished and caught tadpoles in Concourse and Centennial lakes where, on sunny Sunday afternoons, model sailboat races attracted large crowds." (Attribution: http://m.phillyburbs.com/blogs/news_columnists/jerry-jonas/once-there-was-a-park-named-fairmount/article_d1bfdb9b-62a8-5911-8ede-9959256de5c5.html?mode=jqm)
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