Dying ain’t getting any cheaper, either
While we’re plowing through piles of bills, receipts and credit cards, let’s have a look at this invoice for my great grandfather’s funeral expenses. Today the Baxter Funeral Home is […]
While we’re plowing through piles of bills, receipts and credit cards, let’s have a look at this invoice for my great grandfather’s funeral expenses. Today the Baxter Funeral Home is […]
My grandfather once, for a very short time, ran a drive-in restaurant on Aqueduct Road outside of Schenectady. it was right about where the bike path crosses Aqueduct Road, where […]
For you youngsters out there who may never have seen one, this is what receipts used to look like. If they were to have any detail at all, they were […]
Worst metaphor ever. Hands don’t devour. Considering the huge reputation of Thurlow Weed, publisher, kingmaker, party boss, whoever wrote this ad for his publishing firm (in 1905, years after his […]
Well, the makers of “Albany” Venetian Blinds may have been blind to the implications of unnecessary quotation marks, but at least they were fairly consistent in calling into question where […]
You know how you always hear the Corning Tower is the tallest building between New York City and Montreal? Well, before the 42-story tower at the Empire State Plaza opened […]
Where in the United States of America is there a city from which so many summer resorts can be reached so quickly, easily and cheaply as from Albany? Did you […]
Troy’s Masonic Temple, dedicated April 2, 1871. It was on the west side of Third Street, between Broadway and River Street. Given the age of the other buildings there, I’d […]
Bells, that is. Those words are Poe’s, these are Arthur Weise’s in 1886, describing Troy’s then world-famous bell industry: The fame of having tens of thousands of church bells ringing […]
Arthur Weise has one of the few descriptions I’ve found of the former village of Bath-on-the-Hudson: “Bath-on-the-Hudson, the first station on the Troy and Greenbush Railroad, three miles south of […]