Sing Sing New York

Sing Sing, you know..the place "Up The River" the town is now called Ossining but the prison will always be Sing Sing ! I saw this one at the cover show today in a dollar box..kind of a local item..it struck my interest so I grabbed it !

Here's Sing Sing Correctional Facility, courtesy of Google Earth. A railroad bisects the campus.



Regards, Robert

This cover fits the thread...note the sponsorship is the "Sing Sing Philatelic Association"!:



Checkout this link, too:

http://books.google.com/books?id=CJ...tion&f=false

philb: How's was the cover/postcard show in Albany? I wish I could have gone.

Hi Will, the show was just O.K. it was nothing like the shows that John Nunes put on where there were lots of smaller dealers to pick through their boxes..thank goodness for George McGowan he always has something for us !!

Speaking of the show..you should have heard people complaning about the detour on Washington Ave...i got off on exit 2 and would have been right there except for the detours...took an xtra half hour to find the place..for some strangers it took over an hour !!

Nice cover! Especially entertaining to see it addressed to Sing Sing, instead of Ossining.

thanks dickmac, it caught my eye...a lot of what I collect may not mean much to others..but to me its art !!

philb: About how many dealers were there? I wish I still could have gone. Maybe next year or I'll just hit the monthly show which is later this month. Work is too erratic for me to plan anything, but I'm making progress towards more auctions!

Will, I would say about 30 dealers were there..one came from Ohio..you know how different shows have different energies..this one did not seem too exciting !!

Phil, I remember Sing Sing very well, no, not as an occupant. My train passed through Ossing every day coming and going to work in Manhattan. I remember there was a bear siting in Ossing when I still lived in Cortlandt Manor but that was over 9 years ago.

Ray, I can relate, its a strange feeling when you look out the window of the Metro North and you are staring at razor wire !

One of the more interesting items collected by my paternal grandmother was a sterling silver souvenir spoon from Sing Sing Prison. Against the rather more traditional souvenir spoons from places like Boston and New York City, it's a bit of a standout in the collection, which now hangs in a shadowbox in my dining room. I may unload some of the others at some point, but that Sing Sing spoon is a keeper!

thats pretty good...i wonder if they had a souvineer shop inside or if the local shops sold them..i have a fellow in our stamp club whose Dad worked in the prison systems and he collects penology topicals...i wonder if I should show him without letting it out of my hands ???