Wednesday, November 13, 2013

CROTON'S DUCK POND BEFORE THE HIGHWAY CAME THROUGH, CIRCA 1960'S

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

Recently The Croton Historical Society was generously given a large cache of slides spanning many years and had them converted to digital copies. Of particular interest were the photos of the Duck Pond before the highway came through. These are all circa early 1960's--with a smattering of 1970's--and it's been fun to "zoom" in on long gone details. Click on the photos and enjoy!

p.s. If you are not yet a member of The Croton Historical Society, you can download a membership application here: http://www.crotononhudson-ny.gov/Public_Documents/CrotonHudsonNY_WebDocs/HistoricalSociety/HSMembership.pdf

SEE PART 2 HERE  http://www.everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/11/part-2-crotons-duck-pond-before-highway.html

You may also have an interest in:
SPRING 2013 @ THE DUCK POND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/05/spring-2013-reflections-at-duck-pond.html
SUMMER 2013 @ THE DUCK POND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/08/summer-reflections-at-duck-pond-august.html
AUTUMN 2013@ THE DUCK POND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/11/seasns-of-duck-pond-autumn-2013.html
1973 DUCK POND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-post_27.html


7 comments:

  1. Brilliant of the society to convert old slides so these great Croton memories aren't lost. Hot chocolate and skating at the Duck Pond, happy days.

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    1. Tom Simone spent the entire weekend cataloging the items on separate disks for the files. Kudos as always to our volunteers.

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  2. Yes! We ran into him when he was buying the disks!

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  3. I remember wearing my sister's skating skirt to go skating, and freezing!! Then running to the diner for hot chocolate! These pictures bring me back!!
    Thank you!

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  4. I remember the duck pond exactly like this!! Running to the diner for hot chocolate! Great memories! Thank you

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  5. I learned how to ice skate on the duck pond I would go to the diner and have hot chocolate early 60s

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  6. Ya the old day's Wow good good times

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