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The Ten Eyck Hotel
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Where were all those dapper folks from 1908 we looked at yesterday hanging about? The Ten Eyck Hotel, corner of State and Chapel. To its right is the Tweddle Building, the second version of a landmark built by John Tweddle at the Elm Tree Corner, northwest corner of State and Pearl. The lovely structure…
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When Albany was dapper
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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…
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The Ten Eyck
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Albany’s grandest of grand hotels in the early 20th century was The Ten Eyck, located pretty much where the Hotel Albany (originally and once again a Hilton) is located on State Street, just above the Elm Tree Corner and Tweddle Hall. It was on the corner of Chapel, which then went through all the…
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$10 down and $2 a week
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As we mentioned yesterday, in 1927 the suburbs of Albany were starting to boom. Veeder Realty was pushing two new developments, Birchwood Park and Hampton Manor. Birchwood Park was between stops 18 and 19 on the Schenectady Railway Company trolley line to Albany, somewhere in Colonie. As far as we can tell, Birchwood Park…
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Sayles Hall
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We’ve looked at some of the other buildings of the old State Normal School in Albany, now known as the downtown campus of SUNY Albany, but haven’t tripped upon Sayles Hall before. And so here it is. It was dedicated in 1941 as a men’s dormitory. It went back and forth between housing men…
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General Grant’s funeral procession
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We all know (we do all know this, right?) that General Ulysses S. Grant finished his military memoirs in a small cottage at Mount McGregor just before dying there on July 23, 1885, a bit more than twenty years after Appomattox. The cottage, loaned him by Joseph Drexel of New York, was subsequently presented…
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Nehi!
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I ran across this 1958 receipt for Nehi beverages from my grandfather’s short-lived drive-in restaurant at Aqueduct, and it made me wonder where Nehi had gone. Nehi was once a well-known soda brand, which in 1955 became Royal Crown.Growing up, Royal Crown was always something of the consolation prize when what you really wanted…
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Thacher Park Pool
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Since All Over Albany just featured the discussion on the future of Thacher Park, here’s a quick glimpse of the past: its once-great swimming pool. My guess on this postcard would be sometime in the 1950s or perhaps even ’60s.
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Dunn Memorial Bridge
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Always nice to see a view of the old Dunn Memorial Bridge, named in honor of posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Parker F. Dunn, Morton Avenue’s bravest son. But it’s also nice to see the kinds of messages people used to spend a penny to send: “Thats a railroad bridge that I go…
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Trolley disaster at Greenbush
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The 1890 railroad sabotage at Greenbush miraculously took no lives. But a 1901 trolley crash outside Greenbush (which is now part of the city of Rensselaer) was much more serious, killing at least seven people. It was May 26, 1901, and the trolleys were at the start of their summer runs. In those days,…