Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.
Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.
This riding lawn mower looks homemade but might have been the most modern piece of equipment owned by Orillia’s Parks Department in the 1920’s.
The rider is sitting on a metal tractor seat behind the cutting reel powered by a single stroke “Hit and Miss” flywheel engine with a small gas tank mounted in front.
The building behind the rider is the ladies bathhouse built in 1911 and destroyed by fire in 1958. The men’s bathhouse, to the left of here, was then converted to accommodate both men and women until a new building was completed in 1960.
In 2010 two new updated buildings located close to the original bathhouse site, were opened and feature the latest in washroom and change room accommodations for our growing population.
