Old School Week: Riverside School, Schenectady
This photo is from sometime in the early to mid-1940s. Would you say they look like second or third grade? In the middle row, third from right, in the overalls, […]
This photo is from sometime in the early to mid-1940s. Would you say they look like second or third grade? In the middle row, third from right, in the overalls, […]
If for any reason we ever felt the stirring need to rename Schenectady, the name of Steinmetz wouldn’t be a bad choice. There was hardly anyone who figured more in […]
When the Fourth of July falls in the middle of the week, America can’t decide which other days to take off, so pretty much the whole week is shot. Hoxsie […]
In the age of Craigslist, the weird old charm of perusing the classified ads in the newspaper is gone. Once we depended on them to find jobs, apartments, cars, and […]
Dutch roof line (Photo credit: carljohnson) In 1669, New York had been under British rule for five years, but the colony, her cities and her customs were no less […]
Ran across this 1923 Carl Company ad for dustless ash sifters, only $2.98 in Carl’s Busy Basement, and it occurred to me that even though I’ve heard the phrase “sifting […]
1923: Patent medicines were still going strong, and the practice of chiropractic, often tinged with quackery, claims that nerve pressure prevents the all-important Vital Force from reaching your organs. It […]
Just imagine what it was to cook in the days before electric or gas stoves. Feeding wood or coal into a stove, cleaning out the ashes, never being able to […]
This billhead is from what was then one of Schenectady’s most prominent businesses, G.G. Maxon & Son. They owned a large grain elevator right up against the Erie Canal, and […]
Avery, Snell & Co. began as a crockery store in Amsterdam, NY known as Avery & White in 1874. Mr. Snell bought out Mr. White, and removed the wholesale department […]