tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post4620816889293759638..comments2024-03-28T02:33:20.668-07:00Comments on Earwigoagin: Header Photo: Where Is This?Tweezermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559514473959503645noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-6922392677560646322013-07-28T03:58:47.594-07:002013-07-28T03:58:47.594-07:00Yes please.Yes please.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-29400985127879380822013-07-27T21:37:46.328-07:002013-07-27T21:37:46.328-07:00Tweez, you've got to post another one of these...Tweez, you've got to post another one of these quizzes at 6:20 on Super Bowl Sunday.Baydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-48378933066753965372013-07-27T19:50:36.361-07:002013-07-27T19:50:36.361-07:00Thanks for providing me with a few hours entertain...Thanks for providing me with a few hours entertainment this evening. Better than what was on TV I am sure! Sorry for cluttering up your comments with my sleuthing.<br /><br />So I am pretty sure both photos are looking across Larchmont Harbor. If you look on a map you will see that the views from the gazebo in Manor Park and from LYC are both towards the same point on the opposite side of the harbor, to the NE and E respectively.<br /><br />And there's a fair amount of circumstantial evidence that this could be Ladies Day. There were canoeing and swimming races on Ladies Day which explains a lot of the foreground in the header picture too.<br /><br />I wonder which year. How did you deduce that is was probably 1913-1918? And how did you come across the photos?Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-79921372037231042762013-07-27T19:35:11.393-07:002013-07-27T19:35:11.393-07:00And this NYT article from 1913 about Ladies Day at...And <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0F1FFF3A5813738DDDAA0A94DF405B838DF1D3" rel="nofollow">this NYT article from 1913</a> about Ladies Day at Larchmont that year says that more than 200 yachts dressed ship and that possibly the fleet was larger in "former years."Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-27731996125664688912013-07-27T19:27:52.083-07:002013-07-27T19:27:52.083-07:00Maybe your header photo was of Ladies Day at LYC? ...Maybe your header photo was of Ladies Day at LYC? <br /><br /><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30A11FD355D16738DDDA90A94DF405B808DF1D3" rel="nofollow">This NYT article from 1910</a> does say that the fleet was dressed for Ladies Day.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-53060722426851843412013-07-27T19:19:56.406-07:002013-07-27T19:19:56.406-07:00On the other hand check out this photo of Ladies D...On the other hand check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=332869830115444&set=a.301815603220867.66731.301757296560031&type=1&theater" rel="nofollow">this photo of Ladies Day at Larchmont YC in 1911</a>.<br /><br />This looks like a better match to your scene than that postcard of Horseshoe Harbor. The trees on the point look similar in both pictures but this one is claerly a wider stretch of water more similar to your picture. Would also explain why the swim platform has an LYC burgee.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-82327051851803646912013-07-27T18:29:35.285-07:002013-07-27T18:29:35.285-07:00Oh, and I forgot to mention, Horseshoe Harbor is i...Oh, and I forgot to mention, Horseshoe Harbor is in Manor Park.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-49048884080390346842013-07-27T18:27:13.578-07:002013-07-27T18:27:13.578-07:00Check out this photo from the Larchmont Gazette.
...Check out <a href="http://www.larchmontgazette.com/2005/articles/graphics/oldlarchmontboaters.jpg" rel="nofollow">this photo</a> from the Larchmont Gazette.<br /><br />Not the same day but surely the same view? Look at the trees on the point in the distance, for example.<br /><br />This is a postcard from Horsehoe Harbor in Larchmont c.1900. There is a Horseshoe Harbor YC (which is probably why your correspondent from Larchmont YC said it wasn't LYC but he did know it?)Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-86397513999570729262013-07-27T18:03:42.432-07:002013-07-27T18:03:42.432-07:00Could this be a more recent photo of the same spot...Could <a href="http://larchmonthistory.org/photopost/showfull.php?photo=3833" rel="nofollow">this</a> be a more recent photo of the same spot?<br /><br />Note that the gazebo may have been rebuilt in 100 years and a stone wall added. But look at the pattern of striations in the rock.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-79529006390762587552013-07-27T17:55:24.248-07:002013-07-27T17:55:24.248-07:00And Manor Park in Larchmont is famous for its gaze...And Manor Park in Larchmont is famous for its gazebos and striated rocks.<br /><br />If you look at Manor Park on Google Maps satellite view you can actually see two gazebos on striated rocks very much like those in the second picture. But I can't identify the exact spot with those specific striations.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4273883632460433399.post-27435025524059314332013-07-27T17:42:02.061-07:002013-07-27T17:42:02.061-07:00The burgee on that swimming platform does look rem...The burgee on that swimming platform does look remarkably like the burgee for <a href="http://www.larchmontyc.org" rel="nofollow">Larchmont Yacht Club</a>.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.com