🏘️ Croton Local History

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Below is issue 1 of Theodore J. Cornu’s extraordinary hand-drawn, hand-lettered, self-published journal, Hudson Valley Echoes . When the publication opens you can click on the pages and enlarge them. The embedded viewer uses Flash, so if you don’t

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see it below because your device doesn’t support Flash, you can click here . Issues 2 to 4 are coming soon . . . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new

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Americans Theorore Cornu Published March 28, 2013 December 29, 2013

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Click on the images to enlarge them. November 1877 ad These two nineteenth century puzzles, showing the Old Croton Dam and High Bridge, were part of a set called Sliced Objects, published by E. G. Selchow & Co., circa 1867 to 1880. The puzzles came

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in a box (shown below) along with puzzles of other New York landmarks—the Bethesda Fountain, St. Paul’s Church, the statue of Washington in Union Square—and puzzles for coach, yacht, engine and other words. Selchow was one of the major game and

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puzzle companies of the Victorian era and sold several “sliced” puzzle sets, including Sliced Animals and Sliced Birds. The series was popular enough that it was copied by another company, resulting in an 1883 trademark infringement lawsuit ( Selchow

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v. Baker ), which Selchow won. In 1880 John Righter became a partner and the company name was changed to Selchow & Righter. The firm remained a top game and puzzle company into the twentieth century, remembered by aficionados for Parcheesi, Scrabble

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and Trivial Pursuit. Many thanks to Etsy seller paintedpony99 for permission to use the box image. Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook

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Published March 30, 2013 March 30, 2013

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Here is an early post card of the “Belle Terre, Log Cabin Restaurant at Camp Broadway, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.” According to the book by the Croton Historical Society in Arcadia’s Images of America series, the Log Cabin Restaurant was located near the

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“present entrance to Arrow Crest.” In a previous post we featured a later post card showing the Log Cabin after it had expanded and built a simple sign to catch the attention of hungry motorists. For more on the days of Croton’s “road houses” see

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here and here . Do you have a copy of the Croton Historical Society’s Arcadia book? If not, order one here . Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

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Restaurant Published April 7, 2013

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Article from the New York Tribune, June 12, 1921 “Harmon-on-the-Hudson has been one of the most active suburb real estate centers since early this spring,” reported the New York Tribune in this article published on June 12, 1921. “Clifford B. Harmon

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. . . says that in the last few weeks about one hundred building lots have been sold mostly to recently married couples, many of whom have already started to erect homes. Among the homes recently constructed are interesting cottages and bungalows.”

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Can anyone identify these homes? Share this: Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Pinterest (Opens in new

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Oscar Levant, the quick-witted pianist, composer, actor, author and quiz-show panelist, had his first "extended engagement" at the Mikado Inn in 1922. In his 1965 book, The Memoirs of an Amnesiac , Levant wrote about those days, which must have been

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quite an experience for a young man who was then just 16 years old. Oscar Levant at 17 (right), with his brother Howard on the boardwalk in Atlantic City. "During my second year in New York I played the piano in a Japanese roadhouse in the town of

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Harmon-on-the-Hudson, where I shared sleeping quarters with twenty or thirty Japanese waiters in the cellar. . . . A three-piece orchestra played on weekends but during the week there was just the piano and violin. We alternated between classical and

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popular music. The place was called Mikado Inn. The rival restaurant . . . was the Nikko Inn. Japanese restaurants were comparatively scarce, so it was ironic that the leading proponents of Japanese cuisine should have been within such a short

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distance of each other. Consequently, the rivalry was keen. The upright piano on which I played had a horizontal string across it, on which hung a one-dollar bill—a not too subtle hint for tips, which were mostly forthcoming as the evening progressed

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and the clientele grew boisterous and drunk. The most popular request was that great American spiritual "Show Me the Way to Go Home." Almost as popular were "Charlie My Boy," and "Yes, We Have No Bananas." For dinner we played concert music. The

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proprietor, a rotund, jovial Japanese whom we addressed as Admiral Moto, was completely dominated by his forbidding Irish wife, a tall, dictatorial and quite respectable woman. Every Saturday night Admiral Moto would get loaded . . . There was great

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activity in the vast kitchen where the chef was a twenty-year-old Italian boy from nearby Croton. He had achieved his Oriental culinary skill under the tutelage of his predecessor, a Japanese chef who had left after a fight with Admiral Moto. This

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was an interesting anomaly: an Italian chef running a kitchen which served only sukiyaki.” Coming soon: Admiral Moto’s “forbidding” wife saves his life—”grapples with attempted murderer [and] . . . chokes him into unconsciousness.” Years later she’s

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