Here are some photos of our Downtown Ithaca location.
To the left is a general view from the shop entrance.
To the right is a detail of one of our window displays.
“There are moments in every man’s life when he glimpses the eternal.” – Robert Conway in
Lost Horizon.
We believe that you will get a glimpse at our Downtown Ithaca shop. The shop manager is You Min (Kim Gosline). Our current hours for Summer of 2005: MON 5 PM to 9 PM, TUE 11:30 AM to 7 PM, WED & THU 11:30 AM to 8 PM, FRI & SAT 11:30 AM to 10 PM, SUN 1 PM to 4 PM.
Thank you for visiting our shop in the heart of Downtown Ithaca, for an art event, to see our fine merchandise, or just for a friendly chat.
Please come back any time!
Shangri-La on The Commons
156 East State Street
Ithaca, New York 14850
Telephone 607-272-6156
We have a lot of fun designing our eye-catching window displays at
Shangri-La in Downtown Ithaca.
Here are some views of our Mardi Gras display!
Click HERE to view Shangri-La's exclusive line of Mink, Fox, and Chinchilla Furs!
VALLEY OF THE BLUE MOON
In Hilton's novel, adapted for the silver screen by Frank Capra in 1937, a group of Britons led by idealist adventurer Robert Conway crash-land in a fertile mountain pass brooded over by a mountain called
Karakal, or Blue Moon. In utopian
Shangri-La, where the aging process is dramatically slow, Conway is hosted by Buddhist High Lama and falls for the Manchu royal Lo-Tsen, a 68-year-old who looks 18.
Hilton himself never went to China. He may have plucked the setting for his tale from an article in
National Geographic magazine about Austrian-American Joseph Rock, who explored the region for 27 years.
Joseph Rock was based 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Zhongdian in Lijiang, a centuries old hamlet and backpacker haven, which also made a bid for the mythical title. Quaint, misty Lijiang has grown exponentially in recent years from a windfall of tourism.
But the dusty town of Zhongdian remains underdeveloped, despite having built an airport to facilitate visits to placid sites such as the White Water Terrace, a limestone plateau carved from a hillside by trickling azure pools.
The Zhongdian government also has held talks with Hong Kong's Shangri-La hotel group and agreed both sides could use the name. But only one county would officially take the name of the land which, in Hilton's words, was "touched with the mystery that lies at the core of all loveliness".
Click HERE to View our Cortland Store!
Click
HERE to
VIEW A TRAILER CLIP
of the 1937 film
Lost Horizon, directed by Frank Capra.
"Gentlemen, I give you a toast. Here's my hope that Robert Conway will find his Shangri-La.
... Here's my hope that we all find our Shangri-La."
Visit Shangri-La's exciting line of exclusive workout gear -
ART IN ACTION!
Also visit our page of LINKS for the downtown ITHACA COMMONS shops! In
Ithaca, NY,
Shangri-La is located at
156 East State St., "The Commons," TEL 607 272 6156 or 5955. ITHACA LOCATION HOURS for Summer of 2005: MON 5 PM to 9 PM, TUE 11:30 AM to 7 PM, WED & THU 11:30 AM to 8 PM, FRI & SAT 11:30 AM to 10 PM, SUN 1 PM to 4 PM. In
Cortland, NY,
Shangri-La is located at
55 Main St., at the corner of Court St. CORTLAND LOCATION HOURS for Summer of 2005: MON to WED 11 AM to 6 PM, THU 11 AM to 6:30 PM, FRI 11 AM to 5:30 PM, SAT 10:30 AM to 4 PM, SUN Closed. In both locations you can find our fine textiles, art exhibits and publications.
