Showing posts with label summer camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer camp. Show all posts
Friday, February 09, 2024
Thursday, February 08, 2024
Buses and trucks loading up at work call at Statehouse Lake Youth Conservation Corps camp on the White River of Wisconsin, 1962
Front and center, that's a International Harvester isn't it?
Camp Thunderbird had a 57 Chev wagon!
In 1969, their daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Allen Sigoloff, helped establish Camp Thunderbird for Girls, opening the Girls' Camp for its first summer in 1970 and then taking the reins on Boys' Camp in 1972.
Camp Wandawega... you're probably not going to believe this 1960's summer camp time capsule.... was founded in 1925 as a speakeasy/brothel/weekend destination for Chicagoans, and now looks like Martha Stewart and Crate and Barrel were liberally spread throughout the camp
these are legit Girl Scout Cabins, saved from a scout camp that closed nearby
Tucked away on the shore of ‘a little lake that no one has ever heard of’ in southeastern Wisconsin, Camp Wandawega has seen it all: from bootleggers to bad cops, priests to prostitutes, hippies to hipsters, as well as flappers, fanatics, and families on vacation.
Though started at Hotel Wandewega in 1925 to make a speakeasy with trap doors, hidden rooms, etc, by 1961 it was bought by Latvian priests (I am not making that up) who escaped the Soviet Union. They made this their retirement home and Latvian Summer Church Camp
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Shortly after opening Parker's Ranch in 1929, Adele von Ohl Parker started a day camp in North Olmsted, Ohio for school aged children on Parker's Ranch.
Adele von Ohl's act also caught the attention of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who hired her in 1907 to perform tricks on horseback for his Wild West extravaganza. She toured the country with Buffalo Bill's troupe from 1907 to 1909. In that latter year, she married James Letcher Parker, a bronco rider also performing with Cody's show. They both left Cody's Wild West for the Vaudeville circuit, appearing over the course of the next two decades in acts with "Wild West" themes, like "Cheyenne Days," "Texas Round-up," and "Rodeo Days." During this period, Adele Parker also appeared with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and worked for several years as a stunt woman in Hollywood, appearing in early movies with cowboy star Tom Mix.
As World War I raged across battlefields in Europe, Adele von Ohl Parker, nationally known daredevil rider, waged a campaign in the United States for the creation of a mounted Red Cross to be composed entirely of upper-class horsewomen.
Over time the ranch grew to have some 34 buildings, including four barns which stabled from 60-70 horses, half of whom were owned by the ranch. The ranch also became home to an assortment of other animals, including cows, donkeys, goats, chickens, rabbits and pomeranian dogs. According to the 1940 census, the ranch also came to employ a staff of at least ten persons, ranging from secretaries to cooks to handymen to stablemen. The Plain Dealer, in an article that appeared on June 22, 1930, called it a "dude ranch in industrial Ohio."
While Parker's Ranch was founded as a riding school, it soon became much more than that as Adele Parker initiated programs and events at the ranch that focused on children, including disabled children.
Children learned how to ride, how to care for horses, and how to work on a ranch.
Held every summer for many years, day camp at Parker's Ranch was four days each week for an eight-week session. At day camp, children were not only taught how to ride horses, but also to love horses and how to care for them.
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
1939 Camp Ha Wa Ya woody (Maine)
Camp Ha Wa Ya was founded before 1910
Mr.
Pitts managed the Camp as a part-time job during the
summer season, and during the off-season he would
work in his family company called Joseph Pitts & Son,
which was a pulpwood and timberlands business with
more than 3,000 acres of timberland near Harrison,
Maine.
During the 1940s, one
David Kaufman bought the camp from Mr. Pitts. Mr.
Kaufman was a former football coach and had coached
teams such as John Hopkins University and Baltimore
City College. Through Mr. Kaufman’s connections as
a football coach, he recruited many campers from the
Baltimore area.
Camp Ha-Wa-Ya ceased operations, it
appears, in the 1960s.
The property of Camp Ha-Wa-Ya was purchased by the
Deertrees Theater, a generally neighboring property.
At the time of purchase, the theater was owned by
Emerson College, which used the theater as one of
its school programs. Apparently, the idea behind the
purchase was to provide students in the area with
additional housing in the cabins as well as adding
recreational space.
In 1969, the Emerson College sold
the theater, along with the additional lands of Camp
Ha-Wa-Ya, to an apparent Ha-Wa-Ya alumnus named David Maturi
It was on Crystal Lake, Harrison, Norway Rd. That's the east side of the lake, and I don't see on the satellite view where it could have been
And that is likely the most info on the internet about that camp.
Camp Rio Vista, Texas’ oldest summer camp, founded in 1921
Established in 1921, Camp Rio Vista was the brainchild of Herbert Crate, former CEO of the Houston YMCA, who bought 1000 acres of Guadalupe riverfront property between Hunt and Ingram.
1942 Camp Onaway
1941ish Charlotte Country Day school using this woody as it's first bus!
Unfortunately this image is behind a paywall and that source ain't cool about anyone seeing the original. So, I made do to share it.
Camp Winnataska's history began as Dr. Elwyn Ballard's afternoon excursion in a Model-T (in 1914) to a promising fishing hole. Enchanted by the waterfalls, he made a summer camp for kids in 1916 at the site
Boy Scouts and Boys Club members from the area first camped here in tents in 1916.
Through Dr. Ballard, the Interdenominational Birmingham Sunday School Association acquired the camp in 1918 and offered sessions not only for boys but for girls as well - the first organization-sponsored camping for girls in Alabama and among the first in the South.
Winnataska early received national recognition for excellence of staff, facilities, and programs."
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