The White Tower Picks Up Its Building and Moves
Updated! Okay, so you know the White Tower on Central, the one that stopped being a burger joint some time in the 1970s? The one that’s better known to my […]
Updated! Okay, so you know the White Tower on Central, the one that stopped being a burger joint some time in the 1970s? The one that’s better known to my […]
It doesn’t look like much anymore, but this building at 11 Central Avenue was once Albany’s first auto mart. It was reportedly built in 1916 at a cost of $150,000, […]
Sometimes ya gotta reach into the recent past. This postcard of the SUNY Albany fountain was published in 1986. The text reads: “SUNYA students take time out for some fun […]
One of the things that may not always be obvious is that in a world that was run on hayburners, someone had to provide the hay, even in the center […]
Yesterday we looked at a stove dealer who had ventured across the river into Greenbush territory in 1863. Today we’re back to Albany, and back to 1850, to take a […]
Haven’t been able to learn much about R.V. Pasco, whose 1863 ad appears here. He was one of many stove makers and dealers in the area at a time when […]
T. Lamoure & Sons’ motto was “Quick Sales and Small Profits.” Their grocery and hardware store at 89 Washington Avenue in Albany had a little bit of everything, and was […]