Two great tastes that go great together
Beer and bologna. In 1862, Frederick P. Durr was running a saloon and bologna manufactory at 166 State Street in Schenectady.
Beer and bologna. In 1862, Frederick P. Durr was running a saloon and bologna manufactory at 166 State Street in Schenectady.
I’ll admit that I’m not sure whether “war prices” were a good thing when John A. Edwards took out this ad in 1862’s Schenectady directory. This was the golden age […]
101 years ago, there was no TV news. There wasn’t even radio. The only way to get information about the greater world was by newspaper. And newspapers were sold by […]
This week I learned that Moses Jones, Practical Slater, was the man who laid the roof on historic St. Joseph’s Church in Albany, which is now owned by the Historic […]
Van Debogert Bros. sold lumber and coal and cement and flour and grain and yada yada yada. In the mind of some printer in 1862, that was secondary to the […]
There was a time when all ice cream was local, and Colonial Ice Cream was a prominent ice cream maker in Schenectady and Scotia, supplying many local restaurants and stores. […]
In 1862, John Bame’s livery service was at the corner of State Street and Centre (now Broadway). Funeral outfits provided at the shortest possible notice.
In the 19th century, Schenectady’s main business district was all concentrated west of the canal. And it would seem that most things that were for sale were concentrated in James […]
Well of course I couldn’t talk about Wallace’s without mentioning its across-the-street complement, The Carl Company. One of Schenectady’s home-grown department stores, it opened in 1906 and was owned by […]