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WGY Refrigeration Co.
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So, we found out there were WGY Food Stores, and as far as we can tell, those had some sort of association with the AM radio station. Well, then, what about WGY Refrigeration Co. of Scotia? In 1946, it was selling radios (which makes sense) and various other electrical appliances from a venerable location…
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Lathrop’s Drug Stores
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Well, let’s continue this bit of old home week, started last week, with this 1946 ad from Lathrop’s Drugs. Lathrop’s was a Rexall affiliated drug store with two locations in Scotia. By the time I remember them, the early ’70s, neither one had the soda fountain that is advertised here, and I never had…
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J.W. Randall Boats
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So I’m browsing through an old newspaper from 1945 and I see an ad for a business from my hometown that I’ve never heard of. Admittedly, it was before my time, but it did make me curious. I hadn’t heard of J.W. Randall’s boat shop, and I wondered where it had been. And when…
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Pinkham’s Gift Shop
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When I was growing up in Scotia, there was an odd little gift shop operating out of a very nice old home at the corner of Glen Avenue and South Reynolds Street called Pinkham’s. I can only recall ever going in there once or twice, with my great great aunt, and it was the…
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The Markers Speak: Maalwyck
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From the village of Scotia comes this historical marker for the house called Maalwyck: “This house built ca. 1712 / by Karel Hansen Toll, who / settled here 1685. Broom / farm became an outpost of / Mohawk Valley Turnpike.” Maalwyck was always said to be Dutch for “whirlpool,” describing a condition in the…
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Map Fortnight: Scotia, 1906
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From Robson & Adee’s 1906 map of “Schenectady and Environs,” another early 20th century view of the village of Scotia, New York, my somewhat idyllic hometown. The fold in the scan cut out a little section.
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Map Fortnight: Collins Park, Scotia, 1905
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Hoxsie’s still busy, so more pretty pictures. This is a lovely map of the area that would become Collins Park in Scotia. This was 1905, so Washington Avenue was still the route of the trolley of the Schenectady Railway and the Fulton, Johnstown & Gloversville (though this map says, “FJ&A” instead of the more…
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More bridges of Schenectady County
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Hoxsie could put in a lot of time and effort into making a survey of all the bridges that cross the Mohawk in and around Schenectady. Or, Hoxsie could give you a link to work that Johns Gara and Garver did at Union College that amounts to the same thing. Hoxsie is lazy today.…
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The bridges of Schenectady County
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While we’re looking at bridges across the Mohawk, here’s a glimpse of the railroad bridge that sits just downriver from the Western Gateway bridge. I’m not entirely sure when it was built, but as work was being done on it in the summer of 1978, it caught fire and the creosote-soaked railroad ties made…
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Another view of the Mohawk River bridge
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Found among my great grandmother’s keepsakes. I don’t know how old I was, maybe 8 or 9, when I wrote this card. I had tried to fit my message on the postcard but was unsuccessful, so I made another card and mailed them to her together. I don’t remember her answer as to whether…