I came across a new-to-me early Meadowbrook neighborhood advertisement with just a landscape view, only the second of this style of ad I've come across. I included the earlier image below in this post.
It is a bit blurry to make out the scene, in addition to not the best print; nonetheless sharing this image of our neighborhood before a half dozen or so houses were built, published March 1937. The ad text features written details of two homes..
I found this ad image while on the hunt for the elusive Meadowbrook signs erected the summer of 1936 to advertise the new neighborhood but suspect the signs were temporary in nature, and no doubt were ultimately repurposed given the '37-'38 economic recession and impending war shortly thereafter the following year.
It just feels like there ought to have been a photo somewhere of these very large signs or various views into the new neighborhood on what was once a private estate, though, maybe not given the public nature of relief gardens the years prior and activity on Netherwood Farm on Mountain Ave.
Anywho... an exciting new-to-me-image all the same of our neighborhood's "early days" before our neighborhood was fully built. And, if so inspired, it's a good reminder it is always a good time to plant a new tree.
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| inspiration from the Shakespeare Garden at Cedar Brook Park |
Where is this image taken do you think? To me it appears to be a sycamore tree on the image's left side, or so I'm assuming by the brighness of the sun on the upper half of the tree trunk. Then some low lying shrubbery or possibly an informal hedge gesturing to the higher ground in the distance from right to center image... so maybe the Green Brook is to the left or behind the view of this image?
And only a guess, but with the tree foliage flush, the shadows seem summertime long, my assumption was western sun causing eastern shadows, and so we're looking north/north-west. I incluced a 1931 birds-eye-view map with road and other details of the former estate if you'd like to take a crack at triangulating the view.
(Click image to enlarge)
Here is the other landscape-only ad found, published 6 months earlier in 12 September 1936
One other early ad, Feb 1937, touting the landscape
Now go plant that tree!
