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In my experience, no one who has ordered a fish dinner in Albany, least of all someone who has ordered it in a pleasant riverside setting, appreciates being reminded that […]
In my experience, no one who has ordered a fish dinner in Albany, least of all someone who has ordered it in a pleasant riverside setting, appreciates being reminded that […]
The Albany Journal printed an article in August, 1884 titled “The Railroad Fireman’s Dream”: “A remarkable accident occurred to Mr. Douglass M. Irish, a resident of No. 49 Colonie-street, about […]
I originally posted this on My Non-Urban Life back in 2010. The folks at All Over Albany dug up an amazing test of the knowledge of eighth-graders in Albany in […]
(A version of this was previously published at All Over Albany.) So, what is a Menand? Well, the question really is, who was Menand? For the answer, you’d have to […]
There are people who, because of the predominance of government in Albany’s economic and civic life today, think that Albany was never much of a manufacturing town. Quite the opposite […]
Pruyn’s Albany Iron and Saw Works down on Pruyn Street was a substantial operation when this ad ran in 1858. The iron works manufactured just about everything that could be […]
Ladies! What to do when your beloved Barnum Blake bonnet becomes besmirched, bespotted or besoiled? Best betake yon bonnet to the Boston Bonnet Bleachery, where ladies’ straw, leghorn, chip and […]
Knowing what we now know about what doctors didn’t know in the mid-19th century, it’s easy to imagine the Albany Eye and Ear Infirmary of 1858 as a chamber of […]
1858. J.B. Armour, Brush Manufacturer, keeps constantly on hand a large assortment of brushes of all kinds and descriptions. When I was growing up, brushes were still a big thing. […]
Once upon a time, there was an elm tree in Albany’s Lafayette Park (just across from the Capitol). That tree’s grandparent (whatever that may mean) was a leafy witness to […]