Civil Service, 1907
We ran across an “Application and Experience Statement for State and County Service” fromĀ the NYS Civil Service Commission in 1907. It’s depressingly familiar, for the most part, though there […]
We ran across an “Application and Experience Statement for State and County Service” fromĀ the NYS Civil Service Commission in 1907. It’s depressingly familiar, for the most part, though there […]
Hoxsie’s taking the week off. But there’s plenty that you’ve missed. For instance, do you know which of the many places named Albany (“Albanies”?) in the U.S. are named after […]
I was just a little kid when Colonie Center opened in 1966, so I don’t remember a lot about it except that it was a big deal. As someone whose […]
Normally, we can excuse commercial hyperbole. And the 1966 opening of the first full-scale enclosed mall in the region was certainly the kind of excitement that would lead its sponsors […]
Believe me, the entire Capital District did not always possess a genetic instinct for how to get to Wolf Road. It was a backwater road with a country club up […]
Just a little over 47 years ago, the Tri-Cities got their first full-fledged mall, Colonie Center. It was billed as the “INclosed Double Mall,” “located on the tree-studded site of […]
A post over at the Nostalgic Syracuse Facebook page reminded me that I have never written about Flah’s Department Store,. This ad from October 31, 1966, celebrated the grand opening […]
Hoxsie’s crazy busy this week. Instead of enlightening history, you’re going to have to settle for a pretty picture postcard of Thacher Park’s overlook at the edge of the Helderberg […]
In 1917, the New York Telephone Company was still getting Albany residents used to some of the benefits of the burgeoning telephone systems. This ad from the Blue Book reminded […]
An alert reader (thanks, John!) sent along this article from the Feb. 27, 1951 Knickerbocker News, detailing the end of the line for the venerable Goold’s carriage company, which invented […]