Thacher Park Pool
Since All Over Albany just featured the discussion on the future of Thacher Park, here’s a quick glimpse of the past: its once-great swimming pool. My guess on this postcard […]
Month: July 2013
The Troy Menands Bridge
While we’re on the topic of bridges, let’s move up the river to this old view of the Troy-Menands Bridge. What was originally a lift bridge, as shown here, was […]
Dunn Memorial Bridge
Always nice to see a view of the old Dunn Memorial Bridge, named in honor of posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Parker F. Dunn, Morton Avenue’s bravest son. But […]
Trojan Hotel, the Elks, and Alling Rubber
There’s been a lot of excitement over plans to bring the old Trojan Hotel building back from the brink. Here’s an undated postcard, posted by the Boston Public Library, with […]
Trolley disaster at Greenbush
The 1890 railroad sabotage at Greenbush miraculously took no lives. But a 1901 trolley crash outside Greenbush (which is now part of the city of Rensselaer) was much more serious, […]
Trouble on the Tracks
In the late summer of 1890, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad fired 78 members of the Knights of Labor “for cause,” the cause primarily being that they […]
The exciting SPAC lineup, 1976
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center 1976 summer lineup featured an interesting array of acts. In addition to those fabulous Philadelphians, there was the Third Annual Upstate Jazz Festival, featuring Stan […]
Taking the Waters
So of course the main point to going to Saratoga in the late 1800s was to take the curative waters from its many mineral springs. As Saratoga Illustrated pointed out […]
The Springs of Saratoga Springs
In 1876, people went to Saratoga Springs for the waters. (Unlike Nick in “Casablanca,” they were not misinformed.) “Its mineral waters flow in exhaustless abundance from year to year; and, […]
Wandering Saratoga, 1876
We’ll continue with what “Saratoga Illustrated” had to say about the city of springs in 1876: Saratoga Springs is a village of hotels and dwelling houses. There are few or […]