Vintage postcards show park gone for nearly a century

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Like some sort of lost Atlantis, the turn-of-the-century theme park vanished without a trace along the Hudson River near the border between Menands and North Albany. Even among local historians, it's an obscure and faded footnote, although the discovery of vintage postcard images is raising its profile. A local historian uncovered postcards from the early 1900s depicting Al-Tro Park (located midway between Albany and Troy), a later incarnation of Pleasure Island.

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Jeff's avatar
Wow... check out those photos. Today at parks I love to people watch, but what fun could it have been then? Everyone wears almost the same thing, it's formal, and you sure don't see any skin. What a horrible time to live!

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Yeah, it's amazing to look at old pictures of amusement parks. I don't how they could stand it in those heavy suits. I get hot enough in the summer with shorts and a t-shirt. One would think they would take their coats off at least!

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janfrederick's avatar
I looooove vintage pictures...especially of old parks. The parks look so neat.

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"I go out at 3 o' clock for a quart of milk and come home to my son treating his body like an amusement park!" - Estelle Costanza

Wish they still made parks like that today.

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