Summer means music and dance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Linda McClary of Burnt Hills passes out ballet programs to three patrons of the arts in July 1974. Standing from left are Karen Bender, Susan Bender and their mother, Kitty Bender of Scotia.
Motorcycle safety was a part of summer in 1973. Local Yamaha dealers sponsored a free riding seminar at the former Mohawk Mall. From left, Schenectady County Sheriff Barney Waldron; Paula Boles; Bill Anderson, president of Schenectady Yamaha; Lin Babcock; Larry Petersen of Petersen Power Equipment in Hoosick Falls; and Yamaha instructor Ken VanderKar. Boles and Babcock were Gazette staffers.
Chess represented a strategic and relaxing way to spend a summer day for Jeff McGee and Julia Sidoti in 1974. The kids were regulars at the summer program at the Mumford “Tot Lot.” Supervisor Tom Miller didn’t provide any tips to the contestants; he read a story and entertained, from left, Toni Lewis, Anito Hall, standing, Nancy Magiera and Lela Howard.
Four women smile at Schenectady’s Martin Luther King School after the first Miss Black Teenage Schenectady contest in the summer of 1974. From left are Millie Ray of Chester Street, third runner-up; Pamela Stevens of Furman Street, Miss Black Teenage Schenectady; Linda Williams of Steinmetz Homes, second runner-up; and Allena Brown of Arkona Court, first runner-up and Miss Congeniality.