Datebook 1920: Monday, September 6, 1920

Wonderful trip. Best ever taken YET. Overcast mild day. Rain in late P.M. and evening. Arose 8:30 A.M. Mess. To Coney Island etc. Nice Visit. Started for home 10:30 A.M. 25 miles thru N.Y.C. Up East side of Hudson. Nice rides. Lots of cars on road. Home 8 P.M. Total mileage 599.9. I drove about 450 M. TO BED 10 P.M.

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Here's a postcard view of Coney Island as it appeared in the 1920s:

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband, son and friend. This is the second installment of Date Book, covering 1920 (the first covers 1919). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1920 to January 1, 2014, for instance--with one entry per day. So it will take a year to transcribe this second diary.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford. By doing this, I hope to convey a sense of 1920 Schenectady, New York and the people Stanford interacted with. Of course, I'm also hoping to give Stanford's descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1920

Monday, September 6, 1920

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