HeyJaredRadburn: The Town for the Motor Age
Discover the lost history and stories of this National Historic Landmark that changed the world.
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How Radburn’s parks got their letters (opens the original)
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1938: Radburn Riding Academy's annus horribilis (opens the original)
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There is a scene (above) from The City, a documentary made for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, in which riders on horseback canter through Radburn’s R Park. At first we assumed this was an anachronism, staged for the film. Clarence Stein and Henry Wright had planned Radburn to separate pedestrians and automobiles; they apparently had given no thought to this third form of traffic.But when we looked for records and photographs of horses in early Radburn, they began turning up.“Horseback riding’’
After the storm, a case for shade trees (opens the original)
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An old vista returns ... for a while (opens the original)
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