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Scotia Plans Insane Fourth

July 2, 2020July 1, 2020 Carl Johnson

From 1912, we ran across this article impugning the sanity of our original hometown and have just been waiting for it to be seasonal and/or timely again. So here we […]

Albany

William H. Johnson Talks Emancipation

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 Carl Johnson

In honor of the sudden interest in Juneteenth, commemorating the day the belated word of emancipation reached slaves in Texas, I went off in search of whether there had been […]

Schenectady County Beers Map 1876
Schenectady

O’Neill, the Schenectady Swindler

February 17, 2020February 18, 2020 Carl Johnson

For a while now we’ve been interested in the story of Emmett O’Neill, the Schenectady Swindler. We hadn’t heard of him before he popped up along with some other research […]

Erie Canal

From canal to boulevard

January 6, 2020January 5, 2020 Carl Johnson

Imagine giving a weeklong exposition, with parade and fireworks, to celebrate the opening and lighting of a new street.

Schenectady

“All Who Attended Were Well Pleased.”

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Carl Johnson

More for amusement than for historical edification, we present this clipping from an 1867 edition of the Schenectady Evening Star. We haven’t dug in to exactly who Prof. Shepard was […]

Schenectady

Crossing State (And Building a New Union Station)

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Carl Johnson

When Schenectady was a sleepy backwater, having numerous trains go across the main business street, just feet from the Erie Canal, was probably not much more than a nuisance. But […]

Schenectady

How Well Do You Know Schenectady?

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Carl Johnson

On Dec. 30, 1911, the Schenectady Gazette asked on its front page, “Do You Know Your Own City?” It then posed questions about Schenectady that “will be answered by the […]

Schenectady

The Hotel Vendome (and any number of other names)

September 11, 2019October 26, 2020 Carl Johnson

For those of us who grew up around Schenectady in the 1950s or 1960s, the northeast corner of State and Broadway seemed long settled as the home of the Woolworth’s […]

Albert Livingston Stevens in Ford
Schenectady

A.L. Stevens, Schenectady’s Rooming House Keeper and Armless Driver

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 Carl Johnson

Paging through an old Schenectady Directory, an oddly worded series of advertisements led us to an interesting story – the story of the armless man who owned a group of […]

Man Beast detail
Schenectady

Man, Beast or Devil?

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 Carl Johnson

Okay, this one isn’t really history, and it’s barely Schenectady-related . . . but it’s fun. Readers who opened their copy of the Schenectady Gazette on January 31, 1921, were […]

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