Starin Steamer Ship Glen Island 1880 Billiards Bowling Dancing Resort NY Ad Card

Description: 1880 - "Starin's Glen Island... Commencing... 1880." - Long Island Sound "Elegant Steamers - Laura M. Starin and St. Nicholas ... leave for Glen Island..." Timetables "Billiards / Bowling Alleys / Rifle Ranges / Mammoth Dancing Pavilion / Boating and Bathing....""Grand Concert in Pavilion Daily / Rhode Island Clam Bake ... Club House... Hiram D. Maxfield." "Starin's Alpine Grove on the Hudson River / Excursion Office: Foot Courtlandt St." This is NOT a postcard ... but because many researchers & local history collectors search for main street businesses and historical cards like this under the Postcard category, the Dave Cheadle Card Store is listing some GREAT 19th Century Historical Trade Cards under various Post Card categories.. Starin's Glen Island This is one of their earliest cards: "Commencing July 6th, 1880" - - Starin's Glen Island was a summer resort in the community of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York, developed by shipping magnate and U.S. Congressman John H. Starin in the late 1800s. Starin's resort, referred to as "America's pleasure grounds" was the first theme park in the country.The park's original design exhibited the five cultures of the western world on individual islands linked together with piers and causeways.The extreme popularity of the park resulted in a building boom in New Rochelle in the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1881, the Park opened to the general public, attracting thousands of people daily.For a small excursion fee, steamships carried countless New York families to this summer resort to enjoy its bathing pavilions, fine food and wines at the Grand Cafe, and the scenic beauty of Long Island Sound. The walkways along the harbor were lined with colorful flowers, classic bronze statues, and a natural spring that provided cool, fresh water. Winding pathways led visitors through landscaped grounds where they could escape the summer heat under groves of shade trees. Included among its attractions were musical entertainment and performance bandstands, a camera obscura, a Grand Cafe, an aviary, greenhouses, stone castles, a Dutch mill, and a Chinese pagoda. A chain ferry transported visitors from a mainland dock on Neptune Island.There was also a nationally recognized Museum of Natural History which housed mummies from 332 B.C., Native American relics of the Stone Age, and other rare antiquities, along with the first fire engine used in New York State, several meteors, and a giant stuffed white whale. There were also bathing beaches, pavilions which could accommodate 800 people, bridle paths, a miniature steam train, and a zoo of exotic animals which included monkeys, lions, elephants, and trained seals. The resort was located on Glen Island, in New Rochelle's Lower Harbor, just off of Long Island Sound. The island is situated between Davids', Neptune, and Travers Islands in New Rochelle, and Hunter Island in nearby Pelham Bay Park, in the Bronx borough of New York City. Although now one island, the site originally consisted of one large main island in close proximity to at least four smaller nearby islands, a number of rocky outcroppings, low-lying flats, and salt marshes. The site is currently occupied by the county's Glen Island Park, which includes remnants of some of the historic structures. circa 140 Years Old - Antique 19th Century Card: Ship and Recreation -related Business Advertising Card + Over 1,000+ more fabulous antique & vintage cards are currently listed at the Dave Cheadle Card Store. 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