Waterloo Park Bicycle Track
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- Colour postcard of the bicycle track, baseball field and grandstand at Waterloo Park during an event. Note the spectators, horse-drawn carriages and tents in the background.
- Notes
- The bicycle track was laid out in 1892. The covered grandstand was built by Alois Bauer in 1894 and accomodated spectators for local sports events, bicycle and motorcycle and dog races. The grandstand was sold to the city in 1920 by the Waterloo Grandstand Company. It was demolished in 1953.
- Inscriptions
- Printed on front; "Waterloo Bicycle Track and Ball Grounds, Waterloo, Ont., Canada".
- Publisher
- Valentine & Sons Publishing Company Limited
- Date of Original
- 1915
- Date Of Event
- 1915
- Dimensions
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Width: 14 cm
Height: 9 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 14cm
Image Height: 9cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PC14 & Local History Slide Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.468696 Longitude: -80.528734
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
