Welcome to Everything Croton, (while the New One is down) a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.
With the news that the Town Cortlandt Ice Rink is officially opening on November 23rd---(the Thanksgiving holiday weekend--and free skating----for more info, visit www.townofcortlandt.com/icerink), the blog has had the usual requests for an oldie but goodie---ICE SKATING THEN AND NOW. See all below.
--Many thanks to Croton Friends of History for this fab link from ATLAS OBSCURA (click on the image): Ice Skating in New York Has Always Been Magical - And here are the vintage images to prove it...In 1915, New York’s Hippodrome Theatre hosted an ice spectacular, a whizzing, gliding ballet on a sheet of frozen water on the stage. There, Charlotte Oelschlägel, a 17-year-old skating prodigy from Germany known just by her first name, jumped and twirled her way into Broadway history. READ AND SEE MUCH MORE HERE http://bit.ly/2zidA7w
AND FOR CROTON ICE SKATING LINKS:
--1960 ICE SKATING RACES AT THE CROTON DUCK POND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-1960-ice-skating-races-croton-duck.html
--JANUARY 1955, PREPARING THE DUCK POND FOR SKATING http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/09/croton-duck-pond-jan-1955.html
--2015 AT THE DUCK POND http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2015/02/photo-duck-pond-skating-22115.html
FOR MORE ABOUT CROTON FRIENDS OF HISTORY: http://www.crotonfriendsofhistory.org/
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