tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post5123078595972499028..comments2023-10-26T09:58:01.275-04:00Comments on The Bowery Boys: New York City History: Salute to Ulmer Park, short-lived Brooklyn beer getawayThe Bowery Boys - Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15973633888975286268noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-89986955828237073162014-02-19T00:31:13.943-05:002014-02-19T00:31:13.943-05:00I have a photo of my Grandmother on a tour boat wi...I have a photo of my Grandmother on a tour boat with the title "Ulmer Park" scrawled across the bottom. She was born in 1902 and looks to be 10 or 12 in the photo which would make it about 1912 or 14. She and her two friends are grinning from ear to ear and thoroughly enjoying themselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-40842590865982717962013-04-05T09:38:23.867-04:002013-04-05T09:38:23.867-04:00There were still picnics and social functions stag...There were still picnics and social functions staged at Ulmer Park at least as late as 1907, from advertisements of those events that can be found in searches of New York City area newspapers. In one such ad, from 1907, it says that the park still included bowling alleys, a shooting range, and "all the first class accommodations." So maybe it didn't close completely in 1899. Or maybe it just changed ownership?Claudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05654598170885738113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-55159638168104017032011-05-31T19:19:07.474-04:002011-05-31T19:19:07.474-04:00I have a real photograph postcard of 7 women in an...I have a real photograph postcard of 7 women in an Ulmer Park raft. The known date range for the stamp box on the back is 1904-1918; and the postcard is a "divided-back", which dates it 1907-1915. This puts the earliest closing year of Ulmer Park at 1907, and as late as 1915.Annnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-7796176408887791762011-05-30T01:03:35.710-04:002011-05-30T01:03:35.710-04:00I ws born in a little community named Camp City in...I ws born in a little community named Camp City in 1933. I have run across a Donald Fox who also lived in the community. Both of us would like to receive any information at all about Camp City. If you have anything, please feel free to send it to me at rkanenchen@cox.net. Thank you so much. Dick Kanenchen, 3405 kSE 22nd Street, Del City, OK 73115 - 405-672-3650. Will be happy to purchase any photos from that era as long as they are not too expensive.rkanenchennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-52551109520940706572009-07-16T22:15:56.925-04:002009-07-16T22:15:56.925-04:00Wow. I'm a native Gravesender and a fan of the...Wow. I'm a native Gravesender and a fan of the local history and this is the first I've ever heard of Ulmer Park. Thanks for widening my knowledge base.STEVAPALOOZAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14752779146305111571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-45916269528438539872009-07-10T16:00:06.756-04:002009-07-10T16:00:06.756-04:00Sounds like the start of a good Brooklyn murder my...Sounds like the start of a good Brooklyn murder mystery.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824663909935724032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-88679738240352462612009-07-10T15:13:27.772-04:002009-07-10T15:13:27.772-04:00Yes I think so. I happened to find more informatio...Yes I think so. I happened to find more information at the blog [Hudson River] http://hudsonriverbracketed.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-partner-calvert-vaux.html :<br /><br />Vaux is buried in Kingston’s Montrepose Cemetery, in the same row as Jervis McEntee and other members of their families, even though he died in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, while visiting his son Bowyer. <br /><br />He walked off the end of a pier into Gravesend Bay, and while the family maintained he was confused and had left the house on a foggy day to take a walk without bringing along his eyeglasses, the newspapers reported the death as a suicide. From The Brooklyn Eagle of November 21, 1895, the day of the drowning:<br /><br />“A workman on Fry’s coal dock first saw the body being tossed about in the rough water, but when he rushed to the shore to secure the corpse it disappeared. It was some minutes later before Mr. Fry himself saw it drifting alongside the bulkhead out to sea again. With a boat hook he succeeded in bringing it close to shore…. It was finally necessary for someone to go right in after it…. The son was much affected. He made the identification certain by examining the marks on the clothing, not daring to trust himself to look at the features.”<br /><br />I've got to look more into that!The Bowery Boys - Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15973633888975286268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206380617235471991.post-82638480012846363462009-07-10T14:34:51.895-04:002009-07-10T14:34:51.895-04:00Is the discovery of Vaux's body in Gravesend B...Is the discovery of Vaux's body in Gravesend Bay the reason that the nearby Dreier-Offerman Park is in the process of being renamed Calvert Vaux Park? That seems like a macabre way of getting your name on a piece of land, especially for a landscape architect.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05824663909935724032noreply@blogger.com