Lake Carnegie was crowded with ice skaters when Elizabeth G.C. Menzies of Princeton took this photo, probably in the late 1950s. Frigid temperatures in January enabled the University to open the lake for skating again this year (see a slide show at PAW Online). Menzies, who worked in Princeton’s Department of Art and Archaeology and was an author and historian as well as a photographer, died in 2003.
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Jim Paulson ’72
8 Years AgoFrom the Archives
The photo of skaters on Lake Carnegie (From the Archives, March 4) brought back a lovely memory. In early 1969, the lake ice was excellent, and while skating near the boathouse I met my German instructor, Franz Mohn. At his suggestion, we skated up Stony Brook, winding for a long distance through the Institute Woods. Eventually we came to a riffle and had to turn back, but skating through the woods was almost magical. It was wonderfully peaceful and beautiful, and remains one of my nicest memories of ice skating, and of Princeton.
Henry J. Oechler Jr. ’68
8 Years AgoFrom the Archives: Dating a Photo
The March 4 From the Archives photo had to be taken after “the late 1950s,” despite your suggestion to the contrary. This is because three cars in the picture were 1960 models (one Chevrolet and two Fords). While those cars were first introduced in the fall of 1959, the first January for those cars would have been at least 1960.