Datebook 1920: Sunday, September 5, 1920

Beautiful bright hot day. Arose 7 A.M. Got car. Breakfast. H.H. piloted us around to see sights. Wonderful residences. Ocean quiet. To Ocean Grove Auditorium. 10,000 present. Left for Brooklyn 2 P.M. Arrived 5:30. 60 miles. First view of N.Y. Rather disappointed. Stayed over nite with cousin Will Closson. To bed 10 P.M.

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Stanford drew some funny pictures of the N.Y. sights. I'm not sure what that obelisk-shaped object is supposed to be, but I'm guessing it's a tall building. I know it's not the Empire State Building, since that wasn't built yet, but in 1920, there were other candidates, such as the Woolworth building that was 40 stories tall.

Cousin Will Closson is the famous William G. Closson of Flushing, NY who wrote the Closson Genealogy.

The Ocean Grove Auditorium is a large venue in Ocean Grove, NJ. Here is some information about it: Ocean Grove. They apparently had and still do have Sunday services there.

Here are a couple of vintage pictures:

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

Sunday, September 5, 1920

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