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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Disney's Abandoned River Country Waterpark - Then and Now
Disney's River Country was the first water park at Walt Disney World. It opened on June 20, 1976 and ceased operations on November 2, 2001. On January 20, 2005, The Walt Disney Company announced that River Country would remain closed permanently. Along with Discovery Island, it is one of only two Disney parks in history to close permanently. Both parks were abandoned rather than demolished.
Here are some "then & now" photos of Disney's River Country...
River Country featured a rustic wilderness theming, complete with rocks and man-made boulders. It was described as an "old-fashioned swimming hole" with "a twist of Huckleberry Finn".
Various videos of River Country Then and Now
* More information and images of Disney's Abandoned River Country Here
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Oldest Known Footage of New York City
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This collection of footage was taken between 1896 and 1905 and shows various places around New York City, all identifiable by location on a map.
In order they are:
1. Panorama from Times Building, New York - W. 42nd Street and 7th Avenue, up 6th Ave ending at Times Square
2. Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. ending at the Old Grand Central Station
3. Opening of New East River Bridge, New York - Williamsburg Bridge, on the East River
4. 'Move On' - A fruit market somewhere on the lower East Side
5. At the Foot of The Flatiron, or Fuller Building on Broadway and 23rd Street, on the Broadway side near the narrow north corner.
6. Parade of "Exempt" Firemen - Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village) showing Washington Square Arch
7. Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y. - Heading along the eastern shore of Blackwell's Island, known today as Roosevelt Island. Shows Lighthouse Park and the construction of the Queensboro Bridge over Roosevelt Island, with Manhattan in the far background.
8. Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River - On the Hudson River, looking toward the piers of Lower Manhattan. Shows approximately where the World Trade Center would be located many years later.
9. Old site of the New York Aquarium (which moved to Coney Island in 1957) and Battery Park.
10. Panorama of Flatiron Building - Looking south from Madison Square across Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street
11. Parade of Horses on Speedway - on the West Bank of the Harlem River, Highbridge in North Manhattan. Taken from Harlem River Drive, the footage shows the old High Bridge at 175th Street and the Washington Bridge at 181st Street
12. Lower Broadway - Looking north up Lower Broadway from Wall Street, at the Trinity Churchyard Cemetery
13. Looking along the length of 23rd Street, with the elevated EI in the background.
14. Time-lapse demolition of the Star Theatre on 13th Street and Broadway.
15. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade on Fifth Avenue
16. Skating on the Lake - Ice skating in Central Park
17. Dewey Arch stood at Madison Square over 5th Avenue between 25th and 24th Streets. It was demolished in 1900.
18. Automobile Parade - Downtown Manhattan on the corner of E. 27th Street and Madison Avenue, with the old Madison Square Garden in the background (now the New York Life Building). Stanford White, the building's architect, was murdered in the rooftop restaurant.
19. New York Police Parade - Parade turning into 14th Street from Broadway. In the background is Morton Hose, today the Union Square Theatre.
20. A month earlier from almost the same spot, footage shows the great blizzard that year. In the background is the statue of Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. The statue still stands today.
21. Union Square - a fight between two newspaper sellers, likely young boys.
22. Panorama from the Tower of Brooklyn Bridge
23. Liberty Island - the island which holds the Statue of Liberty was called Bedloe's Island until 1956. The statue was erected 12 years before this footage was taken.
24. Racing At Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island. Old maps indicate that the race track was east of Ocean Avenue, between avenues X and Y.
25. Union Square, looking north-east from the corner of E 16th Street, with 33 E.17th Street Center Publishing Company in the background.
26. Mounted Police in Central Park
27. Bergen Beach near Coney Island. Shooting the Chutes was one of the first amusement rides.
28. The oldest footage of New York City ever - 11 May 1896 - Herald Square, at the intersection of Broadway, 6th Avenue and 34th Street.
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Historic SS Canopic in Pictures
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| SS Canopic |
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| Breakfast Menu |
Type: Passenger liner
Tonnage: 12,268 GRT
7,717 NRT
Length: 578 ft 3 in (176.25 m)
Beam: 59 ft 3 in (18.06 m)
Depth: 35 ft 10 in (10.92 m)
Masts: 2
Propellers: 2
Engines: 6-cylinder triple expansion steam engine
Boilers: 6
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
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| Promenade Deck State Room |
Capacity:
- 1,300 passengers:
- 250 × 1st class
- 250 × 2nd class
- 800 × 3rd class
The Canopic was originally built in 1990 as the Commonwealth for the Dominion Line.
- This 12,268 GRT ship was 578 feet (176 m) long, and powered by a 988 nhp 6-cylinder triple expansion steam engine which gave her a service speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). She could carry up to 1,300 passengers.
- In 1903 the Commonwealth was sold to the White Star Line and renamed Canopic.
- The Canopic made her first White Star Line voyage on January 14, 1903 on the Liverpool to Boston service.
In 1904 Canopic was transferred to the New York to Mediterranean service.
From 1917 to 1919 Canopic operated under the Liner Requesition Scheme.
In February 1919, Canopic reverted back to White Star Line, and in July went to the New York to Mediterranean berth.
In 1922 Canopic replaced the Arabic on the Mediterranean route.
On April 13, 1922 she made her first voyage on the Liverpool to Halifax to Boston route, then to the Montreal run for the summer.
On November 10, 1922 Canopic started on the Bremen to New York service.
In November 1923 she took over the Hamburg to New York route.
In September 1924 she was put on the Liverpool - Philadelphia - Portland, Maine to end her career
In October 1924, Canopic was sold for breaking up and scrapped at Briton Ferry, South Wales.
- In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of people emigrated from Europe to the United States and Canada. White Star was among the first shipping lines to have passenger ships with inexpensive accommodation for third-class passengers, in addition to places for higher paying first- and second-class.
- White Star advertised extensively for emigrant passengers. When the Line began operations in 1870, the majority of their business in the emigration trade was centred on Great Britain, and Irish emigrants remained a chief source of income for much of the company's history.
- From the start, a great deal of their business also came from Scandinavia, with Norway and Sweden being the largest areas of success. As the years passed, the company expanded its services into continental Europe, eventually tapping into the massive streams of emigrants from Italy, from the Slavic regions of Central Europe under the control of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and nations such as Romania and Bulgaria in southeastern Europe struggling with slowed economic growth and overpopulation. Also included was Europe's massive population of Ashkenazi Jews from several areas of Eastern Europe generally known as the Pale of Settlement (a region within the Russian Empire designated under anti-Semitic governmental policies as the only area in which Jews were allowed to settle permanently, and which included primarily areas of far western Russia, the modern-day countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belarus, and the remnants of the former kingdom of Galicia, an historic ethnic region with a huge Jewish population, now divided between southeastern Poland and the western Ukraine).
- The Line eventually expanded their services of travel across all regions of Europe, spanning from the Iberian Peninsula to the Middle East. No exact figures are available, but White Star liners may have carried as many as two million emigrants to North America. They maintained a handful of shipping routes for passengers, including these most widely used ones:
- Liverpool to New York, calling at Queenstown, Ireland
- Liverpool to Boston, calling at Queenstown, Ireland
- Genoa to New York, calling at Naples, Palermo, and Gibraltar, beginning in 1904
- Southampton to New York, calling at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, beginning in 1907.
- Liverpool to Montreal, calling at Queenstown, Ireland, beginning in 1909.
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| SS Canopic lands in Boston, Oct 17, 1920 |
In 1933 White Star and Cunard were both in serious financial difficulties because of the Great Depression, falling passenger numbers and the advanced age of their fleets. Work was halted on Cunard's new giant, Hull 534 (later the Queen Mary) in 1931 to save money. In 1933 the British government agreed to provide assistance to the two competitors on the condition that they merge their North Atlantic operations. The agreement was completed on 30 December 1933.
The merger took place on 10 May 1934, creating Cunard-White Star Limited.
The White Star Line's Head Office building still exists in Liverpool, standing on 30 James Street. The building on James Street, which had been unused for the past 10 years, has recently reopened as 30 James Street - Home of Titanic Hotel providing accommodation for 310 guests on 11 floors.
Cunard Line itself has, since 1995, introduced White Star Service as the brand of services on their ships RMS Queen Mary 2, MS Queen Victoria and the MS Queen Elizabeth. The company has also created the White Star Academy, an in-house programme for preparing new crew members for Cunard ships.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Photo: Sugarbush Resort Aug 1967
Sugarbush Resort, August 1967
Sugarbush Resort is a ski resort located in the Mad River valley in Warren, Vermont. It is one of the largest ski resorts in New England.
Sugarbush Resort is a ski resort located in the Mad River valley in Warren, Vermont. It is one of the largest ski resorts in New England.
Thursday, November 13, 2014
The Real Fawlty Towers Building (after the fire)
A look at the building used as the hotel in Fawlty Towers after it was damaged by a fire. After the fire, it was purchased by developers. Eight houses now stand in its place, though there was planning permission for a 39 bed hotel.
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