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Real Photo Post Card: "FL24; Fish Pool, South-East Entrance, Oakes Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls, Canada."
Published by F. H. Leslie, Limited, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 1947
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No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fi. Original black-and-white photo postcard. Postmarked October 15, 1947 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2." Title printed at the bottom of the image. Copyright information printed on back: "Published by F. H. Leslie, Limited, Niagara Falls, Ont.; A Real Photograph. All Rights Reserved." A purple, three-cent stamp of King George VI is tipped in on back. Postcard is used. Postcard is very clean and intact except for slight aging on the image and a small wrinkle at the bottom edge. A Near Fine copy. There is handwriting on the back in blue pen. The writer addresses Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Pitney in Junction City, Oregon and talks about their trip in Canada. They write about the nice weather ("No rain, lots of sunshine"), "good highways," and their impression of London, Ontario, where they stayed the night before. They say that London was "[n]ot much different from an old American town." This postcard shows a group of people on a balcony overlooking the fish pool and courtyard at the Oakes Garden Theatre in Niagara Falls, Canada. Oakes Garden Theatre is an amphitheater that opened in 1937 at the north end of Queen Victoria Park. The land upon which the amphitheater is built was donated by Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (1874-1943), a mine owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, to the Niagara Parks Commission in 1936. The landscape architecture of Oakes Garden Theatre was designed by Howard and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb. The building architecture was designed by William Lyon Somerville. Florence Wyle, Frances Loring, and Elizabeth Wyn Wood made the sculptures. Frank Howard Leslie (1876-1969) was a Canadian printer and distributor of postcards, educator, and entrepreneur. He began his career as a teacher and principal. He later purchased local newspaper companies including the Tavistock Gazette, the Niagara Falls Review, the Niagara Falls Record, and the Evening Review. Many of his postcards show views of Niagara Falls and surrounding areas.
