Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

It's a then-and-now subfeature today, in Bowling Week at PoTD.

This card shows a 4-lane alley at the Homowack Lodge in the Catskills. See another view from the time, plus some post-abandonment shots, here:

That last shot's from a Village Voice piece called The Fallen Glory of the "Jewish Alps", which opens with some musings about what appeals to us so visceraly about ruins.  The ruin-y one above is from a blog post by Erin Essex with lots more Homowack shots, like this artsy one---

---and a link to a youtube video of a visit there.

For more Catskills contrast over time, just google Grossinger's.

 

Comments

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

That is super cool!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Nice rocketship!

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I just realized that while I have bowled for school--either Gym class or an abortive course to fill my PE requirement at EMU, I've never actually bowled for pleasure. So I don't actually associate it with pleasure, though I guess it must be pleasurable, or nobody would do it.