Collar City Oysters
Once was a time (and that time was 1873) when you couldn’t throw a celluloid collar in Troy without hitting an oyster merchant. J.H. Goodsell, Lewis Thayer, H. Wait, Bailey […]
Once was a time (and that time was 1873) when you couldn’t throw a celluloid collar in Troy without hitting an oyster merchant. J.H. Goodsell, Lewis Thayer, H. Wait, Bailey […]
Not surprising that there was a grocery store going by the name of Van Dyk in Schenectady back in 1930, but in fact it wasn’t a local chain. James Van […]
In the mid-twentieth century, when traveling carnivals and fairs were much bigger business than they are today, O.C. Buck Shows of Troy was one of the big players in the […]
William Croswell Doane: first Episcopal Bishop of Albany. Driving force behind the Cathedral of All Saints, the little church tucked underneath the State Education Building. Dead ringer for “The Princess […]
From The Troy Daily Whig, February 5, 1873, an ad for the Star Brewery, 146 North Fourth Street in Troy. “A superior article of Ale now on hand, in barrels, […]
From a 1924 edition of the Christian Science Monitor, we find one of the earliest indications of modern technology becoming ridiculous: “Automobile tourists who visit Central Park at Schenectady Sundays […]
Okay, here’s a newspaper promotion you don’t see much anymore: in 1921, with a six-month subscription to the Troy Record, you could get a discounted house lot in Colonie Estates. […]
On April 9, 1865, Carl August Rudolph Steinmetz was born in far-off Breslau, in the province of Silesia in Prussia. He suffered a form of dwarfism, and was a mathematic […]
Let’s reach into the not-so-distant past for a true moment of terror: Unisex Gym Suits. Yes, in our day we were required to wear official gym clothing. Yes, it had […]
We’ll wrap up what turned into “School Fortnight” with this 1909 view of the State Normal School. These are the three buildings, Administration, Science, and Auditorium, that started the school’s […]