John English and Son, Coal Merchants
Were John English & Son, Coal Merchants, the original tenants of this magnificent edifice? This ad is from 1895.
Were John English & Son, Coal Merchants, the original tenants of this magnificent edifice? This ad is from 1895.
The Troy Observer and Sunday Budget, the only Sunday paper printed in Troy (and thus the only paper in Troy with color comics) ran at least until 1953.
Andrew Aird dealt in sewing machines, clocks, spectacles, eye glasses, needles, oil, silk twist, thread and who knows what else from his store in the Mansion House Block in Troy. […]
1870. Being a gentleman of taste and judgment, I want to go to there.
Are there still rural routes? In the old days, if I wanted to send a letter to my aunt in West Glenville, I’d address it to her name, R.D. (rural […]
What did Troy’s garage bands do in the days before staple guns and telephone poles? They called on Mrs. Dundon, City Bill Poster, who pasted billsheets to the bricks of […]
Before collars, Troy’s fortune was made in iron works. The old forests of the Adirondacks fueled iron forges up and down the Champlain valley and beyond, but Troy emerged as […]
I don’t know where I’d go for mourning goods today, but in 1870, I’d have gone to Betts & Medbury, in the Mansion House Block in Troy. Dry goods of […]
The first time I became aware of Wells & Coverly, a pretty high-end gentlemen’s clothing store, was when I moved to Syracuse in the late ’70s, where I believe they […]
In 1895, you couldn’t swing a cat in Troy without hitting a collar factory.