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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 […]

Van Curler Opera House Postcard
Schenectady

Van Curler Opera House

May 28, 2019August 28, 2020 Carl Johnson

Last time, we wrote about The Miles Theatre, a flash in the burlesque/vaudeville pan that existed pretty much within the confines of 1920 in Schenectady. Before that, it was a […]

Miles-Theater-Ad-for-Oh-Girlie-Girlie
Schenectady

The Miles Theatre Apologizes

May 20, 2019July 12, 2019 Carl Johnson

It’s not often that a theater takes out an ad apologizing for a show it has booked. But apparently Arthur Ungar, manager of The Miles Theater in Schenectady, felt the […]

Albany

The Fire Record, 1887

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Carl Johnson

Fire was recently in the news for taking a terrible toll on a city with the unthinkable destruction of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. But it was a loss […]

Schenectady

The Lorraine Block and a little more Stanford history

April 17, 2019July 23, 2019 Carl Johnson

Once upon a time, the construction of a new office building really meant something – it was a point of pride for a community to know that a modern structure […]

Albany

The ‘Other’ Max Shinburn, Jail House Dog

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 Carl Johnson

Max Shinburn’s legend lived on in Albany, or at least in the Albany jail – in the form of a jailhouse dog, owned by Jake Fulder, which went by the […]

Maximilian Shinburn
Albany

‘Count’ Max Shinburn, King of the Bank Burglars

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 Carl Johnson

We’ve written before about some of the prisoners of the Albany County Penitentiary, a rather legendary lockup. But the old city jail, on Maiden Lane just behind City Hall, “hosted” […]

Mrs Jones Was Astonished
Albany

An Albany Bride In the Soup

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 Carl Johnson

We present this particular story in the spirit of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” at least in this sense: This appeared in the Albany Morning Express on July 22, 1895, […]

Scotia High School, later junior high school, later seventh grade
Scotia

The High Schools of Scotia

March 18, 2019April 2, 2020 Carl Johnson

A while back in a Facebook group, someone commented on this old postcard of the original Scotia High School, which opened in 1905 on First Street, just about across from […]

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