Don’t you just love getting a postcard? You know them… that picture you’d get in your mailbox from back in the days when getting one put a smile on your face.
Pocono Pines, PA Lutherland Lake 1900 Postcard
Welcome to my online postcard and photo collection, which catalogs the history and beauty of Lake Naomi and the Pocono Pines region of the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania. If you have a postcard you’d like to share, please feel free to do so. We’d love to share it with our audience. Any condition – just take a picture of it with your phone and send here. I love growing the collection.
This series I’ve been working on began as an effort to rebuild my youthful memories of growing up on Lake Naomi in the Poconos starting in the 1960s. As the stories came together, I wanted to start an oline dialog with others who might remember or are making their memories right now. We created an associated Facebook Group, called Lake Naomi Memories, for anyone to share their memories that help create a digital history footprint on the web. Oh, and they’ll certainly help me remember as well. Link below – enjoy the series!
Join the Facebook Group Lake Naomi and Pocono Pines Memories & History
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Postcards:
Before we get started, here’s a fun 1913 transcribed card
Horace R. Longshore, Langhorne, Bucks Co., Pa. POCONO PINES, PA – AUG 18, 1913 5:30 PM
This is where we take our meals, at or on the top of the mountain. It seems quite a bit nearer the stars than at home, 2000 ft. high. The trip up here was delightful, and so everything has been since we came. I wish you could be here, and hope you may someday. Today, there will be a County Fair on the grounds. The rides are wonderful, and the air is so invigorating. With love, M. Cousin R.B.- Not very well, but better this morning. The nurse is here. Will write a real letter as soon as I am able.
Digital Postcard and Photo Collection – Click any image to enlarge
Hello from the Poconos
Greetings from th e Pocono Mountains Postcard
Pennsylvania PA Vacationing In The Poconos Vintage Linen Postcard
Big Pocono Camelback Postcard
Pennsylvania Autumn in the Poconos Vintage Postcard
Postcard Autumn View of Tobyhanna Creek Pocono Lake Preserve PA
Pocono Pines PA Among The Ferns 1900s Postcard
Boat House Pocono Pines and swimminmg
Vintage Postcard Fall Color in the Cove Pocono Lake Preserve PA
Postcard Taughannock Creek Falls Unposted Pocono Pines PA hand colored
Postcard Sunfish on Pocono Lake Pocono Lake Preserve Pennsylvania USA
Poconos Pennsylvania Large Letter Postcard Pocono Mountains Sailboat Lake PA
Pocomountains Postcard
Pocono Mountains Pennsylvania PA Multiview Sailboats Gulf Course Cont Postcard
Naomi Pines Home c1905 Pocono Pines Postcard
Pocono Megargles Golf 9 hole Postcard
Camelback Postcard
Postcard Early Pocono Pines
Naomi Pines House with Freight train in front Tobyhanna Historical Society
Lake Naomi Postcard
Pocono Mountains Tourism Postcard3
Icehouse Corner Murphys Garage to lake Lake Naomi date TBD
Pocono Lake Preserve PA Sailfish A Good Wind c1964
Old Lake Naomi Postcard
Postcard Autumn View of Tobyhanna Creek Pocono Lake Preserve PA2
Lutherland Aerial 1
Central Garage Postcard
1920s Pocono Pines Inn
Lutherland Entrance Postcard Mr Local History Collection
Pocono Pines Inn Rufus Miller ran it
Greeting from Pocono Mountains
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1920s Assembly Hall Postcard
1910 Dam at Naomi Lake
1895 Lake Naomi Completed Damed
Pocono Summit Pennsylvania Station and Buses Vintage Postcard
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Naomi Pines Train Station2 Built 1912
Pocono Lake Preserve PA Postcard 1900s
Postcard Winter Fun in the Poconos
Panther Creek Viaduct Taken Down in 1941 for war metal2 Mr Local History Cleaned
Panther Creek Viaduct Construction Photo Auction
Naomi Pines House where Jubilee is
The Antlers Hotel now Apartment Building on old 940 just below the elementary school
Strousburg Train Station c 1914
Postcard Greetings from the Poconos
1918 Train MCHA
Pocono Mountains Pennsylvania PA Lake Wallenpaupack Boating Vintage Postcard
Naomi Club Slide c1925
Postcard Lake Harmony
Pocono Lake Rail Station
Pocono Camelback Summer Postcard
Naomi Beach and Club c 1920s
Pocono Pines PA Presby Conference PHS501
Pocono Pines Assemby 4th of July MCHA
Postcard Pocono Crest Casino
Lake Naomi Clubhouse Postcard2 c1970s
Lake Naomi Club Bar c.1970s
Lake Naomi Clubhouse Dining Room c1970s Mr Local History Project
1956 Pocono Crest Entrance2
Tobyhanna Station MCHA
Mt. Pocono Train Station Postcard c 1890s
Vespers Service Postcard
Vespers Bell Lake Naomi Postcard
Lake Naomi Postcard 1971
1900s postcard birch trees pocono pines
Naomi Pines House rendition
Pocono Raceway Postcard 1970s
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Pocono Speedway Indy cars Postcard
Pocono Speedway Indy cars Postcard back
CAmelback Postcard Summer
Big Pocono Post Card
Postcard Camelback Lodge
Pocono Raceway Icon Postcardlike
Lake Naomi Postcard Vesper Service2
Laurel Inn Pocono Pines PA
Pocono Pines Pa. Stauffers Pond Postcard 1900s Tunkhannock Creek Fisherman
Hungry Eds
Laurel Inn Pocono Pines PA
Greetings from the Pocono Mountains summer
Lake Naomi Postcard Vesper Service
Alter Vespers Lake Naomi
Forest Lodge Lutherland Pocono Pines
Postcard Inn at Pocono Crest Pocono Pines Pennsylvania 1963
Ski Camelback Postcard
Pocono Pines Presbyterian Assembly Lodge ca 1910 Postcard
1930s Pocohanne Lodge Hotel Lutherland Pocono Pines Pennsylvania PA Postcard
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About The Author
I decided to write these stories down because a friend of mine, with whom I grew up, now lives on Lake Naomi and still sends me photos of the Lake Naomi Club trophy case, where my name, along with my father’s and brothers’, lives on (Thanks, Sue). Thank you for allowing me to document this life experience for the record.
Brooks founded Mr. Local History and the Mr. Local History Project along with his wife, Jill. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and raised in Westfield, Brooks graduated from Westfield High School in 1980 and later from Bryant University. For over two decades, Brooks, along with his brother Brian and younger sister Cee Cee, spent their summers on Lake Naomi with their parents, Frank and Caryolyn Betz, who had lived on Canoe Brook Road since the mid-1960s.
He and his family owned the Pocono Boathouse (Pocono Pines, PA) and the Cranford Canoe Club in the 1960s through the 1990s.
There are likely many gaps in the history that I hope to fill, along with a return visit to Lake Naomi to reminisce and reflect on these stories. This story is part of a series dedicated to the history of Lake Naomi, Pocono Pines, and the memories of my family spending time together. Thanks for reading.
