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.