#AlbanyNY served up about 47 #historicalmarkers in 1886 to celebrate the city charter's bicentennial. Shocking/not shocking that only one never made it to its intended destination – the one honoring Black citizens.
The full story is here:
https://hoxsie.org/2020/10/01/what-happened-to-the-burdett-coutts-marker/
#BlackHistoryMonth #AlbanyHistory #BlackHistory #Albany #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork
This 1910 #LewisWickesHine photo of #Albany #newsboys has been popping up, stripped of all information. I took a deeper dive to learn about boys who were out selling newspapers on the city streets at 10 o'clock at night. Each one saw trouble with the law, starting right around when this was taken. For some, that trouble continued their entire lives.
#localHistory #histodons #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #UpstateNewYork #UpstateNY #ChildLabor
Chanced upon this ad for a 1920 film, combination of film and live stage show with "California Bathing Girls." Private school girl will inherit fortune if she remains unmarried 'til 21. She's secretly married to the gym teacher, has to hide baby from snooping principal's son. Hilarity ensures?
The film and stage show toured the East Coast, anyway. This ad was for the Clinton Square Theatre in Albany, NY.
#cinedons #films #silentFilms#Silentmovies #AlbanyNY #Albanyhistory
Thanks to the Culinary Institute of America's menu collection, we have this undated breakfast menu from the glory days of the Hudson River Night Line. You could get yourself and your car to New York City overnight, and have breakfast along the way. Of course, the Night Line was known for other things, as well. More details from the menu at https://hoxsie.org/2024/11/20/dining-on-the-night-line/
#HudsonRiver #Albany #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #LocalHistory #HudsonRiverNightLine #menu #menus #historicalMenus #Historical_Menus
I'm trying to get my little #LocalHistory blog, the confusingly named Hoxsie, moving along at a somewhat more regular (if not blistering) pace. My last big project took three years, so I'm returning to the days of just posting little snippets in hopes of getting some ideas out of my folder. I started with a brief piece about "the human semaphore of the traffic squad" in #AlbanyNY nearly a century ago:
On my #LocalHistory page, I have the story of #Albany's Drislane's, perhaps once the largest grocery store in the state. The landmark building stood from 1834 until 1972.
There were Pure Food shows, mail order groceries, and at least one championship coffee drinker.
As a bonus: there's the sudden appearance of Pine Street, an ancient little street that suddenly grew three sizes in 1981.
From the days when meat arrived in a somewhat fresher (in fact, entirely more alive) condition – #AlbanyNY residents were relieved that the cattle yard where livestock traveling by train regularly spent the overnight hours would be eliminated. From the 1919 Albany (NY) Argus.
#Albany #AlbanyHistory #LocalHistory #NewspaperHeadlines #OldNewspapers
A now forgotten early #aviator and #vaudeville mind reader, Hope Eden, created an absolute sensation when she took a whirlwind shopping expedition in #Albany in 1919 – Taylor Swift might not get more attention.
Eden may have been the first entertainer to regularly travel from gig to gig in her own airplane – at a time when landings were made in fields.
#LocalHistory #Histodons #AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #AviationHistory
https://hoxsie.org/2024/04/30/hope-eden-to-do-her-shopping-in-albany-stores/
A century ago, municipalities were very interested in establishing airports, primarily as business development. #Albany's claim to being the oldest municipal #airport starts with a former polo field in 1919, moves to riverside farmland in 1920, and then settles on a vast former Shaker farm in 1928. The full story of the creation of Albany's airports is here:
https://hoxsie.org/2024/04/24/albanys-airports/
#AlbanyNY #AlbanyHistory #LocalHistory #histodons #aviation #AviationHistory
Carl Johnson