Most beautiful bright cool day. Arose 4 A.M. Took walk to City Market, Klondike, Central Park etc. Home 6:45 A.M. Read paper. Ran vacuum cleaner. Studied chemistry. Wrote letter. Wrote on typewriter. Candled eggs. Took bath, wrote in diary etc. To bed 9:30 P.M. Thankful for food.
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The place in his walk Stanford refers to as Klondike is actually the Klondike Stairs, built in 1904 to accommodate GE workers walking to work from the Pleasant Hill section of Schenectady. Here is a picture of the stairs from an old postcard:
Later, when people complained that the weather made the stairs hard to navigate, the city built the Klondike Ramp (see below, with map), but eventually the ramp fell into disrepair, was used less and less and was finally torn down. There is a website where the whole interesting story is told: Grems-Doolittle Library Collection.
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The place in his walk Stanford refers to as Klondike is actually the Klondike Stairs, built in 1904 to accommodate GE workers walking to work from the Pleasant Hill section of Schenectady. Here is a picture of the stairs from an old postcard:
I didn't know Stanford used the typewriter. I wonder what he wrote on it--a letter, perhaps? He might have had an Underwood, or one like it. The Underwood was the model typewriter of its era. Here is a picture of one, taken from a Xavier University website:
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