There was a time when Albany was dapper. To judge by these views from around the Ten Eyck Hotel, that time was 1908. Witness four gentlemen in straw boaters, standing in a crosswalk when it was still possible to do so and not evoke The Beatles.
Or these two gents, one with a seemingly unnecessary bumbershoot on this fine bright day, the other perhaps with the daily racing form, or any of the many daily newspapers printed in Albany at that time.
Or this outing party, about to set out in an automobile, perhaps for a picnic at the Albany Rural Cemetery or a trip to Al-Tro Park, which had just opened the year before.
You want to go to there, right?
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