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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, it's probably time to come down. In the distance left, the spires of St. John's Church. No, I don't call it "Old St. Johns." It's only 70 years older than the day I was baptized there and that's not much older than it was all of my life. My Great Great Grandfather Michael, fresh from the ould sod was married there </span><span style="font-size: large;">in 1826 </span><span style="font-size: large;">(I think in an earlier structure before the fire) .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Averell House stood by to serve you lunch or dinner.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">In the grey tone bird's eye view of Bagg's Square and Utica, Averell's was down next to the railroad tracks on the west side of the square. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Utica City National Bank must have really grabbed the attention of anyone coming into the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above, this photo of the City National Bank Building was color-enhanced by our friend Kit from the "Clipper's Busy Corner" proboards forum. (clipper220.proboards.com) Thanks, Kit!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below, the John Roberts Store, "Flanel, Blankets and Wash goods."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a shot looking North from the Erie Canal Bridge. We're looking in the opposite direction of Hans' view in the last post. My notations on the 1920's era card are from a post I made elsewhere as I tried to remember what the block was like when I was in high school in the late 1950s. They're self explanatory, except for the green rectangle that outlines the building in which I held an after-school job..</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This photo is from the late 1940's. From what I remember of it, the building was made to look like a giant ice sculpture from all the water poured on it by firemen. As kids we called it the Allen's Bakery Fire which was the business on the first floor and I think the part of the building where the fire started. The event goes by other names and perhaps you know and would comment. Go ahead and comment on anything mentioned here. You can do so on the FB post that pointed you here.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Come ahead almost a half century and I believe that's Bernie Phillipson's Army-Navy (don't ask whose) Store on Genesee and ... was it Liberty Street? I could use some help. I remember it well, just not exactly where it was.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Next time we'll post photos and postcards of Side Trips away from Genesee St., east and West along two major side streets. And then we'll continue our way up to the Erie Canal and on to the Busy Corner.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Comments welcome! Rather than make them here, it would be best (and a heck of a lot easier) to comment on the FaceBook post that sent you here.</span>Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029884483742697015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675547787323729926.post-8092790622899806692014-03-24T05:43:00.000-07:002015-01-26T10:53:36.334-08:00Broad, Main and Whitesboro Streets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Utica on the train in the 1940's you may have arrived by automobile.The
old 5S (South of the Mohawk) was a popular route, taking you from Albany through every small
town in existence along the old Erie and Barge Canal routes. You can
still drive it today for the nostalgia. Come west out of Ilion and go straight instead of turning left on to the "new" 4-lane 5S. You'll be on what's called Acme Road. It will turn into East and West Main Streets when it brings your through downtown Frankfort. The rest of the ride into Utica is on what today is called Southside Road and it chugs along beside the old railroad tracks (and Erie
Canal route) as well as past the remnants of Cappy's (Capuano) old junk yard before meeting Ferguson Road. Soon you'll see
the iconic railroad bridge up ahead. Stay the
course and you come into Utica on Broad Street, Utica's major street of
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just before you reach the Mann Building on the corner of Genesee and Broad Streets, you would have passed the <u>old </u>Federal building and Post office if you arrived </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">before WW One</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The new post office and federal building replaced it after the war. Styles and tastes change, I suppose, but I much prefer the old architecture. The new architecture </span><span style="font-size: large;"> in my mind </span><span style="font-size: large;">speaks more to a </span><span style="font-size: large;">militarily strong nation. The old spoke more to our mutual aesthetics. And, if you like, to our soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't remember exactly what street it was on, but it was down there somewhere. The Imperial Restaurant. My Aunt Margaret (actually a first cousin, once removed and my Godmother) was a cook there years ago. Wow, her meals were great and I well remember Thanksgivings at her house. Delicious food and enough cigarette smoke to choke a horse, as she would say. I've chronicled a particular Thanksgiving in the story Pack of Lies, located here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I've since figured out where the above scene and the Imperial were located. The Amoco gas station in the back ground was converted to the Greyhound Bus Station in the 1950's. So that's Hotel Street running right to left. The Imperial was located directly across from the Devereux Building on Oriskany Boulevard, between Hotel and Genesee Streets.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Across the intersection stood the Crouse Block, an immense building and storehouse for cloth goods and machinery. It burned down in 1897 in a huge fire that injured many. The fire took the lives of Firemen John O'Hanlon and Isaac Monroe when the floor they were on collapsed into the conflagration below. O'Hanlon had been a hero the year before at the </span><span style="font-size: large;">colossal </span><span style="font-size: large;">Genesee Flats fire (today replaced by the Obliston on Genesee Street and Clinton Place) when he "rescued many women and children and was not afraid to climb to the highest story in order to save them. He was badly burned about the face and hands." (Herald Dispatch, March 10, 1896.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's go back down Genesee Street for a short distance and quickly run out Whitesboro Street. In the first half of the 19th century the stores and factories on Whitesboro Street soon ended and the homes of the wealthy business owners could be seen when strolling through their lovely neighborhood. If you remember the Utica Birdseye/Baggs Square painting, here is a detail from the bottom right corner where you can see a few of the comfortable homes along Whitesboro Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Farther out Whitesboro Street in later years were a number of manufacturing concerns, including Horrocks-Ibbotson, shown below in the 1950's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">H-I made a number of different sport fishing items, including bamboo fly rods. In the 1930's my mother worked there, happy to land the job after more than a year spent standing behind her counter at Woolworths for 49 hours each week and about $17 pay. Her exciting new job at H-I was to tie the line guides on the rods, done with thread and glue. Her boyfriend also worked there. They were never to be, which is OK with me because I kind of like looking somewhat like my Dad whom she met later. I fictionalized my Mom's story and wrote the novella, "Jimmy Bean." You can buy it on Amazon, hard copy or Kindle, or download it for free from my master story list at <a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/essays.htm">http://www.windsweptpress.com/essays.htm</a> (I never resist the urge to plug a story.) Mom would </span><span style="font-size: large;">either kill me if she were alive or thank me for giving her a voice again through my story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is one in a series of successful advertising posters distributed by H-I in the early years of the </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I "photo-shopped" this scene (actually Gimp) of Mom at work in 1936 at her workbench in the H-I factory. I modified a '30s house dress, stole reels and rods from old fishing catalogs and made my mother a bit prettier than she probably was. (You're welcome, Mom.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A canal. What a neat
idea! No need to lug, drag, cart or push
your worldly goods to their destination.
Not when you can simply float them down a waterway But here's the problem. Rivers don't always go where you might want
them to go. So you can build your own. Governor Clinton at the close of the 18th
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">con</span></span>vinced he should extend the navigable reaches of the Hudson
River across New York State to the tip of the Great Lakes and bring from the
midwest what he needed to New York City. Traders would bring wheat to the city's ports for sales overseas. More importantly,
such a canal allowed eastern businessmen to sell what was made in New York to all those folks going west
who were too busy with the going part to have yet found the time to build their
own factories. The Erie Canal provided a
marked reduction in shipping costs. The final price of everything at the delivery point was much cheaper. New York's wares would be
competitive in Chicago. A ton of stuff
that had cost $100 to ship by</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> wagon from New York City to Buffalo cost only $10 on the canal. The sale of cheap goods that hadn't been 't possible at remote locations because of transportation charges now became
marketable hundreds of miles away. What an increase in the size of your </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</span></span>markets! It
was like getting up in the morning and discovering ten times more customers
outside your shop waiting to come in and make purchases. Why, a smart fellow could even have a
business out on the frontier in some far-flung place like that little village up on the Mohawk near the old
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The little town on the Mohawk dominated by Bagg’s tavern
was quickly transformed. Trade brought money, which brought banks and insurers. All of it brought people who needed food and
shelter, clothing and other goods. It
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Erie Canal was replaced by the wider, deeper Barge Canal ca. 1916. The old Erie was filled in, according to the Oneida County Historical Society in the late 1920's. See last sentence of the caption for the photo below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And in a sense Utica came to the canal, with businessmen standing in line to build banks, printing houses and a myriad of factories producing all kinds of goods. I'll refer you to the maps posted earlier in this thread, but </span></span>you can visualize the Erie Canal coming right down Oriskany Blvd. In fact, that street was formed when the canal was filled with dirt in later years after the Barge Canal was opened in 1921. And it was at that time the Mohawk River's presence in Utica was moved about a mile north away from the railroad tracks. Trains eventually got more attention and more business than either canal. But the canal started it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The canal and its Genesee St. crossing were a fixture in downtown Utica. Here's a view from the top of City Hall. You can't see much of the canal, but notice the bridge down past Bleecker Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Erie Canal bridge didn't look like much from atop tall buildings, but down on the street it was a landmark. Below is a very tight zoom in on a print from a glass plate negative of the Busy Corner. The photographer stood somewhere in the intersection of Elizabeth and Genesee Streets. You can see the canal bridge in the background and the small raised hut above the street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Genesee Street bridge over the canal was often called the Hump Bridge. I had wondered how the hump helped the passage of boats with it's increased clearance above the canal water level when right beside the hump the bridge was flat. Turns out the hump was not for clearance. Even the flat parts of the bridge were sufficiently high above the water. The hump, using the principle of an arch, was much stronger than a flat bridge and was necessary to bear the heavy weight of the trolley cars. Before the Hump was constructed the State had closed the bridge because of the damage done to it by the trolleys. Passengers coming from the rail station then had to disembark at the bridge, walk over it and and catch another trolley south up Genesee Street. The Hump eased travel and traffic congestion by allowing a trolley to pass over the canal.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above is the 1883 Utica Map showing the canal crossing Genesee Street. Bleecker Street is at the bottom of the map segment, Broad Street at the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favorite Busy Corner shot taken from the canal bridge. The scene is evidently sometime after the Barge Canal opened officially in 1921. Notice the hand railings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above, evidently an accident, according to Fiona's notes. That's Genesee St. in the background, before the Hump Bridge was constructed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Looks like a Celebration. Canal boat is fit out for passengers, which I believe was unusual since most times passengers fit in among and on top of the boxes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Leaving Middletown in 1916. My notes say this was the last barge to leave Middletown on the Erie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Erie Canal Lock. Primitive by today's standards, but it worked well.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today the Observer Dispatch sits along side where the canal used to flow past John Street to Genesee Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An old lock in Ilion being dismantled in 1936. Beautiful stone work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The new Barge Canal in 1916 crosses the Erie Canal near Herkimer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A more architecturally interesting neighborhood where the Erie Canal runs through Syracuse. Many of the buildings are still in place today here at the intersection of Salina Street and Erie Boulevard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With one exception, the equipment that runs the locks on the Barge Canal today is the original equipment installed in 1916, according to a lock repairman I spoke with one evening about ten years ago. When a part is needed, it is made in a machine shop. The exception is that electrical power for the lock motors is drawn from the public grid we all use. Such was not available everywhere or not dependable in 1916. So each lock had a separate building or "steam house" where coal fired a steam powered generator for the </span><span style="font-size: large;">necessary </span><span style="font-size: large;">electricity. I'm not sure why, but at the lock's I've stopped to visit, the steam house is always closer to the road by a good distance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The old Chenango Canal ran south to Binghamton, through Utica where the today's Arterial lies. When I was a kid, that strip was a railroad, I think the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (DL&W), but I'm not sure. Very near the old Burrstone Bridge was a roundhouse and turntable used for servicing and turning around the switcher locomotives we saw on the rails daily. And I remember a small building with a front porch evidently used by train personnel as a lunch room and bunk house. A sign sat up on the roof, "Do Drop Inn."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All that was left of the canal in my memory was "Milky Pond," as we called it. From under the Burrstone Road Bridge down behind the west end of Murnane Field we boys walked south along the tracks for a quarter mile to the pond. It was the one spot where there were no adults around to stop us from setting off firecrackers, swear to our hearts' content and speculate about girls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above is the Burrstone Road bridge under which ran the railroad when I was a kid and the Chenango Canal when my grandfather was young. And today, of course, a much larger bridge flies over the North South Arterial. The photographer would have been standing at the very west end of Murnane Field, his lens pointed toward York Street. In the 1950's we rode our sleighs down the hill that is unseeded in the photo but was smoothed out and grass covered by our time. Opposite the hill and bridge, down at the lower level, assessable by a cinder road under the bridge from the south end of Lincoln Avenue , was a brick building that housed the Utica Products Company. I remember the sign on the building and the employees inside watching us through the tall windows, nothing else about the business. If one of the other kids told me what they made and/or sold there, I don't remember. Besides, I wouldn't trust it because I'm sure it would have been topical. As in, "I hear they make nuclear bomb detonators in there!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Needless to say, the railroads supplanted the canals. And then the rails went into decline when the auto and truck industry convinced the various governments to build roads, roads and more roads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't begin to thank all the institutions from whom I stole most of the graphic images above. Hey, it's the Internet! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> In the above photo of the Erie Canal bridge on Genesee St. just north of the Busy Corner, you can see the reflection of water just this side of the Devereux Building, the structure in the foreground that splits Hotel Street from Genesee Street to form Franklin Square. This is a great shot of the south end of the bridge. An electric trolley approaches the bridge. I wish I had an explanation of whatever that is running parallel to the side of the bridge on the right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A weigh lock. By the looks of the surrounding buildings, this is not in Utica, but of course the City had one or more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the longest time as a kid I wondered what a "Union Station" was. The name was on the bus my mother would take me on when we went downtown. Finally, I asked and was told it was "where all the buses go." As in "a union of buses" I guess, but I wasn't old enough to form that thought.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trains eventually ate into the canal business. It was easier to build a spur to a small town than dig a canal there. And of course trains were faster ... something that was becoming important in America.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The "Limited" didn't stop in Utica, but charged through each night at about 10 p.m. I remember going down to the station with my father to watch it come through on a summer night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Nothing is like
a train. It has a serious presence, not
unlike a woman with a purpose. It comes
right up to you, stops, breathes on you, seizes you. S</span><span style="font-size: large;">ome
keep you waiting. Many are hard to
catch, and most are never on time. Some
leave before you notice they’re gone. Others may be going too fast to jump
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a summer evening in
upstate New York in 1954, my father brought my older brother and my ten year
old self down to Utica’s Union Station to watch the Twentieth Century Limited thunder
through the city without stopping. Inaugurated in 1902 and running daily until
1967, the Limited carried fathers and brothers and grandmothers and lovers from
New York City to Chicago, and another set back each day, arriving at Grand
Central Terminal in Manhattan well after midnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At nine p.m., she exploded
through Utica’s station at full throttle, pounding down the platform at seventy
miles per hour to where we stood. I felt
my father's hand grab on to the back of my shirt collar, an oddly comfortable
feeling. A tornado could not have
wrested me away from his strong grip, so tightly did he hold me safe. When the train burst past us a mere ten feet away,
the enormous sound and the blast of air were magnificent. A lighted blue eye on
the end of the last car quickly sped away from us down the track to wherever
trains go. She had taken my breath away
and won my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Eleven years later, the redheaded girl meeting me at
Grand Central Terminal was quickly winning my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm"><span style="font-size: small;">Master Story List at http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm</span></a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Judged from the number of post cards and photos, Utica's Busy Corner was a popular subject. The businesses changed over the years, as did the facades for the stores. But surprisingly not much else changed. People, cars and the road surface, from dirt to modern macadam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've tried to present these photos from the earliest times to present, but I'm sure I was not 100 percent successful. For the photos and cards from the 1940's I borrowed an interesting paragraph from the Oneida Historical Society website that tells of the stores on the corner at that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't fit all the Busy Corner photos into one post, so we'll begin with the early shots up through about 1910. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking up Genesee Street (south) from the center of the Busy Corner intersection.</span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Above, looking east out Bleecker Street. On the left is the Bleecker Street Baptist Church and clock tower.</b></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A parade for Sherman. We're standing in vicinity of Columbia Street intersection with Genesee Street. Notice Oneida Bank building right center.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Very fine resolution glass negative of the Busy Corner </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Zoomed in, there is still this amount of detail.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Another zoom view. You can see the canal bridge.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Looking out Lafayette Street</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Looking east out Bleecker St.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Looking south, up Genesee St. </b></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></td></tr>
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029884483742697015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675547787323729926.post-74889954943513375662014-03-21T09:47:00.000-07:002014-09-01T15:37:09.114-07:00Busy Corner II<span style="font-size: large;">Continuing from about 1900 up through the teens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'll begin with The Arcade Building (what most of us remember as the Boston Store) and the Oneida National Bank building, then known as the Munson Building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above: Marching Clubs were popular in the 1880's and 90's and Utica had a number of them. Each year the clubs formed a parade through downtown. Some represented the various trade groups. In this photo they are marching North past Franklin Square just below the Busy Corner. That's the Devereux Building breaking frame right, a triangle shaped building that formed the point of Franklin Square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"(It) takes one or two policemen on this crossing all the time to keep things from getting tangled up. Every Body is going some around this section. Yours, Papa 5/22/10" (Postmark is 1915.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Utica Trust and Deposit was on Genesee and Layfayette and was razed in 1938. Many of the earliest Busy Corner photos show a different white building with a mansard roof that may have been a hotel. (See photo third from top of this post, above.) That older building is also in a photo with an early automobile parked outside, so if it was shot between 1910 and 1920, the Utica Trust building above wasn't up for very long. Possibly less than 20 years.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, looking across Busy Corner west on Lafayette Street. The cars indicate late teens or early 1920s. The Utica Trust is on the far left corner (southwest). It replaced the white mansard roofed building seen in many earlier photos and was torn down in 1938.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below, I guess when Woolworth's moved into the old Fraser store, they simply painted their sign over Frasers high on the North Wall.</span></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">See both photos below.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From the Oneida County Historical Society</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">DOWNTOWN UTICA IN 1941 --
This photo (above) was taken on Oct. 2, 1941 - just two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor and Americas entry into World War II. It was taken from Franklin Square, looking past the Busy Corner and south along the
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dark-colored building on the left was the Oneida National Bank & Trust Co.
and the light-colored building next to it was Daws drug store. Across Bleecker Street on the corner was Wagners jewelers and opticians.
Then, proceeding south along Genesee, were: Macks cut-rate drug store, the
Gilbert Shops womens apparel, Doyle-Knower womens apparel, Woolworths five and
dime, Attie Jacques linen and baby wear, Daniels Jewelers and the 14-story
First National Bank Building with Kresges five and dime on the ground floor. </span></span></b></div>
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the right - at the southern tip of Franklin Square to Lafayette Street - were: The Ritz Apparel, Fanny Farmer Candy Shop and
A. S. Schulte cigar store. Uticas mayor was Vincent R. Corrou. Its population
was 100,518 and its 200 plus manufacturers employed 23,415 men and 12,265
women. Its principal manufactured products included: knit goods, heating
equipment, rayon yarn, sheets and pillow cases, bed and bed springs, rifles and
machine guns, nippers and pliers, sheet metal stampings, sprayers, air
compressors, paper products, fishing rods and tackle and mufflers.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above, Uticans celebrate VJ day, the end of the war with Japan.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is a familiar place for some of us in the 1950's, the Woolworth's Record Department, just up from the Busy Corner. Woolworths had the music we enjoyed listening to on what at the time was the local "kid's music station," WTLB. Also selling records as well as instruments was the Melody House on (I think) Deveraux Street. And probably the oldest music store in town was Worden's in the Stanley Theater block. Earl B. Worden ran the store for many years and sold pianos and mostly Broadway and clasiical music. He sold the store to Boyd E. Golder Jr. (the middle aged son of former Utica Mayor Boyd E. Golder) and Ray Humann<span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Thanks to J.F. Weber<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span>)</span> I worked part time for the two men in the store from 1961 - 62 while in college. Boyd and Ray changed the business very little, except to add a profitable line of furniture-style console stereos <span style="font-family: inherit;">that </span>I remember sold very well. </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent"> Above, looking East down Bleecker Street ca. 1908. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">The street surface appears to be packed dirt, but could be cobble or brick toward the center where the rails sit. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">The twin spires of St. John's can be seen in the background. Not very well depicted, but we'll see it again, was the single clock tower and steeple of the Bleecker Street Baptist Church, on the corner of Bleecker and Charlotte Streets.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">This tea
store photo is, according to my notes, at </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">No. 27 Bleecker St. That would make it </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">quite old. On the 1883 map that we
often use the first block of buildings off Genesee St. are all brick. So this photo
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">In my day while in high school at
Utica Catholic Academy on John St., walking east back to school from the Busy
Corner I passed the side entrance of both Daws Drug and the Boston Store on my left. On the right side (south) was The Hub, a bar
of some renown. The Hotel Hamilton
on the left. (The hotel was still doing well in the 1960’s and featuring a lively piano bar at night and
yard-long glasses of beer. The waiter
put the 36 inch tall glass in a vertical cradle on the floor next to the patron. The customer was left to figure out how
to drink it.) After Charlotte St. came
the Catholic Book Store and then at Burnet Street was a kitchen appliance
dealer. Crossing Burnet St. one came to
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">This could be any lunch counter and soda fountain, but my notes say it's from the Boston Store. The dress of the three customers in the photo is interesting. I assume the little girl was aiming at the Shirley Temple look. Seated next to her is a woman who could have been my grandmother by the dress style and that hat. I call her headgear a Ma Kettle hat. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">The creation on the head of the woman at far right was actually quite popular, judging from the news photos of the time. I'm not sure any woman in my family wore that style hat, but I suppose it was a matter of class. To me the style of women's hats has never been understandable, but this style seems particularly weird to me. The waitresses appear older than they probably were, maybe due to hair styles. I doubt if most of them are older than 18 or 19.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">And then become the old Boston Store before taking over the old Arcade Building which ran from Genesee Street through the block diagonally to Bleecker.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">And below you can see a third Boston Store location on Franklin Square next to Wicks and Greenman, directly across Genesee from the store's last location in downtown Utica. Look closely at the identifying sign to the left of W&G. It's right above "Capacity Days." The cars look like they're from the mid-1930s.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">But now let's walk farther down Bleecker street and look back at the original Schubert Theater on the right. Careful where you walk, ... there are horses about. It's 1910 and we're looking back to the Busy Corner. The building that would become the Boston Store is fulfilling its first role in life as the Schubert Thearter. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">Not many autos on the street yet, just the trolley and horse drawn buggies. Burnett Street is just behind us and the ladies over on the right are crossing what used to be Culver Street, gone or become an alley by my time there in the 1950s. Since this is a glass negative we can zoom in quite a bit and see more detail, below.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">I keep a magnifying glass on my desk for viewing photos. It is simply amazing what you will find when you examine any photo with magnification. We were able to zoom in on this photo electronically and I first chose the left (south) side of the street because of the amount of detail. Clothing styles are apparent. Of particular interest to me was the printer's sign "212, Stephenson, Job Printing, Rubber Stamps." My mother's maiden name was Stephenson, but I don't know of anyone in her family in the printing trade. The number 212 is much higher than the street numbers printed on the 1883 map for this block of Bleecker Street some 25 years before. The street numbering scheme must have changed during that time. The Mohawk Valley Waiting Room was probably used by those waiting for the inter-urban electric trolley that ran down to the valley towns of Frankfort, Ilion, etc. You could also catch an interurban to Syraucse, and one could leap frog across the state on these short lines.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="usercontent">If you look closely, over the heads of the pedestrians on the side walk at the far left, you'll see the sign for the Utica Catholic Bookstore. I wouldn't have noticed it without a magnifying glass. The store must have been closer to the Busy Corner at that time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The two stylish ladies, one carrying something over her shulder. A bolt of fabric? Or maybe something she won at the Schubert's matinee. The hats almost look as though they hurt.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> A little closer. Bowlers were a popular hat style. The sign on the sidewalk says "Vaudeville."</span></span> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You won't find me calling the church Old St. John's. It was old the day I was baptized there in 1943. It didn't need to be called old then and it doesn't now.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since the 1800's this imposing structure presented itself to anyone walking east on Bleecker Street from the Busy Corner. It's the back of St. John's Church and the front door of its Rectory. The Rectory is the attached mansard-roofed building in the foreground. The addition on the right used to attach to the old St. John's School. The school became Utica Catholic Academy in the 1900's and was later torn down, around 1961. As UCA students, we had heard the UFD complained </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">for many years </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">about the school's lack of fire safety. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rather than take us off track regarding UCA, you're welcome to visit the <a href="http://morestories.proboards.com/board/3/history">MoreStories and Utica History</a> site where I've put together memories of the school. Click on the following url and then click on "Utica Catholic Academy."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The photo above was taken after extensive sand blasting of the brick exterior. When I went to school there from 1957 to 1960, the brick face was painted red.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today. On the left in this photo is where UCA stood for
125 years until torn down after 1960.
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still stands guard on the grass, no doubt warding off the devil as he
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the photo you can see the Utica Observer
Dispatch building in the background on the right. It's fairly close to St. Johns, which is
the reason we could feel and hear the presses roll up to speed in the old
school building, as I point out in the story, <i>Pride</i>. "The next day I sat in math class up the
street in an old brick high school building with roots down to the sub strata
of rock. My soles could just feel the
vibration of the presses start up for the Valley Edition at 10:30 in the
morning. I felt exactly like the person
Al told me I wasn’t, a bum." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm"><span style="font-size: small;">Master Story List at http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm </span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Stereoscopy card showing St. John's without steeples. The church burned down ... I forget the year, I think around 1875 ... and during the reconstruction there was a period of time the steeples were unfinished. They might have run out of money. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the above photo, you can see the baptistry on the south side of the church. It looks like a small silo. When I was baptized in 1943 and through my years in high school the baptismal font resided there, but was later moved to the main altar. It looks so much less regal sitting there at the top of the steps, compared to when it all but filled the baptistry. I imagine </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">it got a little crowded around the baptistry</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> when baptisms went from one family affairs to events with multiple families and their relatives. It's always a shame, however, when any part of any liturgy suffers the loss of symbols ... what my Uncle Harry called "smoke and bang." In fact, it's tone deafness (and rather Jesuit) to not recognize the need for smoke and bang in liturgy. We are human, after all. Something inside us responds to incense and color and light and music. The heart is what God is after, not the mind. At one time Catholics had a lock on smoke and bang and enjoyed probably the highest percentage of Sunday attendance of any denomination. Now they're selling their churches. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can see the third floor of UCA in the top left corner of this photo. The shot might have been taken ten or so years before I arrived at UCA in 1957. By that time John Street was all in color. :) </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I'll never forget days like these. Loved them. Who could complain? I didn't worry about driving at that age. Took the bus, and I remember them stopping their runs due to snow only once during my childhood in Utica. The joy in one's heart knows no bounds at the prospect of the rest of the day off from school with the History test cancelled, probably no school the following day .... Ah, the good life.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Above, almost my Alma Mater. In 1959 the diocese decided boys and girls should be separated and the old UCA should close with the Class of 1960. Other considerations ... probably money ... caused them to think the opposite by the 1970's when the bishop reversed course and took a giant leap back to the 20th century. In 1960 there had never been any reputable research to show co-educated students didn't do as well as those separated by sex. There still isn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> After 1960 the girls were sent to the old St. John's orphanage on the hill above Genesee Street in South Utica while the boys joined other young men from St. Francis High School in the new Notre Dame High School. During it's first year of operation classes were held in the old Country Day School in New Hartford next door to what was then Utica Mutual Insurance. The new school building on Burrstone Road was completed in June of 1961, just in time for Notre Dame's first graduating class ... of which I am a member ... to use the new auditorium for the ceremony. There was no way the administration would countenance graduation activities from the old Country Day School. If parents had seen (and smelled) the fly infested, falling down structure they would have asked for their tuition money back.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Above, Sister Helen's sense of humor was legendary. As long as you were behaving. I believe these young women were from the Class of 1962. So they were sophomores at the time of this photo.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Above, another scan from the 1960 UCA yearbook. Photos top and bottom look like students from the last class of 1960. I recognize many of them. The young men in the middle photo with Father Fensky at the desk appear to be boys from different years, probably grabbed from the hallway for the shot. In that same shot in the middle of the page there is an invocation spelled out above the black board. I don't think you can read it here, but on the original scan I can see that it speaks to the times, the late 1950's: Our Lady of Space, Pray For Us.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My dad as a young man may well be somewhere in this photo. He attended St. John's all his life and was buried from there in 1989. Even when we lived in other parishes in the city, he managed a kind of dual citizenship. St. John's has been my family's church down through the years. My great great grandfather Michael was married there sometime after 1824 when he arrived from Ireland. His son Patrick's family and one generation or another since has either been a formal member of the parish or supported the church as my father did. Many of us have been buried from there, including my older brother last year. As for me, I don't think I'll be buried. I want most of my ashes tossed over the water from the ocean's sandy shore early some morning when the sun is coming up. But perhaps my son will save a bit of me to drop somewhere in Utica. Who knows, maybe he'll happen to throw the tiny bit of ash somewhere in St. John's. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="usercontent">I said a lot of prayers in this
church. All of them were answered in one
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<span class="usercontent"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18.0pt;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18.0pt;">Outside the church, a gusty squall churned up snow in the slushy
street. The wind nudged me in through the huge brass plated doors,
past Holy Water bowls the size of bird baths and down the long nave into
the old building. Walking among the pews, I sensed the
immensity of the structure as small sounds echoed about me to accent the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18.0pt;">Looking
around the huge and ornate house of worship, it was apparent that in the 19<sup>th</sup>
century God and Mammon had run neck and neck in a race that God must have
lost. Gold filigree wound around carved columns that arched up and
over a 25 foot high altar. The white Italian marble floors shined
as bright and clean as my soul on the day of my christening, when Uncle Jim
carried me to the gold baptismal font. One more Griffin reporting for
duty in a line that extended back to my ancestor Patrick’s baptism here
in 1830. Afterward, my Aunt Margaret would have carried me from the
baptistry past the darkened Stations of The Cross hanging on the grey stone
walls. If the morning had been sunlit, the high stained glass
windows would have provided wonderfully colored splashes of reds and
greens and gold to wash down the steps and out onto the expanse of white floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18.0pt;">I looked
up to the yellowing chandeliers and imagined the great empty space rising above
me to the vaulted ceiling held the souls of countless men and women who had
vowed their obligation to God and their love to each other in this place
held sacred. Many were my ancestors and contemporaries, husbands and
wives, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers. One life
after another consecrated to something that could only be felt in such
surroundings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hands holding the oil and
water in baptism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hands holding each
other tightly at the altar in marriage. And hands letting go as the one left
behind touched the casket for the last time in that awful moment of
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the ups and downs of our journey, standing when I couldn’t, loving when I
wouldn’t, when I made her happy and when I made her cry. She had
given me a little card once that promised, “… as long as I have the breath to
speak your name, I will love you.” And one night when we were very young,
she had spoken to me with her eyes, as Ruth said to her husband, “Come,
spread the corner of your cloak over me and set me free. ” And when
I did, I was unchained. I had found a heart like mine."</span></div>
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029884483742697015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675547787323729926.post-87852492933189454482014-03-17T15:11:00.000-07:002014-05-28T08:30:09.954-07:00Lafayette Street I<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mostly I remember the two theaters we visited on a regular basis, the Olympic and the Avon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Above, a little before my time. Below, the Avon interior, a sight we seldom saw, since we usually arrived in the dark and left in the dark. I do remember my father taking me to a wrestling match with Gorgeous George appearing for a round or two. I was probably nine or ten years old. The wres<span style="font-family: inherit;">tling ring was set up on the stage, or maybe the orchestra pit. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't remember the evening all that well, but I'm sure George won his match. I wouldn't expect his contract to bring him all the way to Utica in the dead of winter to lose.</span></span><br />
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of us teenage boys and girls who lived in Irish (in my case) families where sex
was mentioned only when filling out an application for life insurance or a
driver’s license. I remember the male and
female lions at the Utica zoo. On warm summer evenings they could easily be heard as we sat on our front
porch just down from the Parkway on Cornhill.
When Leo began to feel his oats, my father got unusually quiet. My mother would stand up and go </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">in the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I don't know why show tickets at the Olympic cost ten to fifteen cents more, but the theater smelled better and had roomier seats. It also had more first run movies. Probably the Stanley theater had more first run than any of them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The only indoor theaters I remember going to as a teenager were the Avon, Olympic, Stanley and the Uptown. Closed by then were the Orpheum on south street, the Highland, the Rialto, the Lincoln, the James, the Utica and of course the Hippodrome and the Colonial.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a very old photo of </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the Hippodrome</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">, an early theater in Utica. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another view of the <span style="font-family: inherit;">Hippodrome, way before our time. I don't know where it was located.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.The first time I tried to
kiss a girl, I had only the movies for a model.
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studied the Hollywood lovers up on the silver screen. When I bent a young lady way over backwards
on her front porch one night, she toppled backward into the front door,
startling her parents in the living room as they watched The Jackie Gleason Show. I had not known how excitable an Italian
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gregory Peck was a cinematic male mentor. The first time I shaved, I used a half can of
shaving cream. The lather needed to be an
inch thick, just like Peck’s in that scene from “The Big Country.” When I finished cutting up my face with the
razor, I wiped the remaining soap off
with a towel, just like in the movies.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d seen Cary Grant
artfully stuff his shirt into his pants without unzipping them or opening the top of his trousers. I’m sure he wanted to be modest while getting
dressed in front of a million movie viewers, but I can’t say why I was
motivated to try it at home. I guess
I wanted to appear classy, even in private.
It just looked like a cool way to get dressed. Most of us guys open the fly, spread the knees a little so the pants
don’t drop to our ankles, and then sort of
hold this and pull that and ….zip! … it’s done. If you can visualize that procedure, you can
guess why it isn’t recommended for a male romantic lead. </span></span></div>
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silly in real life. He must have
practiced it for hours to get it right and not look like he was playing with
himself. The trousers had to have extra
room in the waist and the shirt would be more fitted and shorter than usual. His hands needed to move blindly with just
the right motions while he spoke to his movie sidekick and the plot moved
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television provided lessons large
and small, and all about a slice of American
culture my parents neither cared for nor cared about. It was not
surprising for a fifteen year old boy from a family of
limited means to see in Hollywood
a thrilling lifestyle, compared to my meager existence in upstate New
York. </span></span></span>To me, what I saw on film WAS life, or at least the
life I wanted to have, with a Corvette convertible, pretty girls and plenty of
money. And I knew I’d never get what I wanted without </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">having
the personal attributes the next generation after me would come to call
“Cool.” That I had learned everything
really important in life at home by age 10 didn’t occur to me. I just wanted to get to that point where I
would be seen as Cool. It has been a
very long trip and so far there’s not even a light at the end of the tunnel.</span></span><br />
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Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029884483742697015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675547787323729926.post-80028091118071117512014-03-16T11:32:00.000-07:002014-09-20T04:55:03.727-07:00Lafayette Street II<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the earliest attractions on Lafayette Street was the Utica Opera House. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Below are a few photos of the building and stage, as well as an ad for upcoming shows.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcYMRR16clA_k7HGNYxuHeTz2NECGA3opJLa7WvBVXbc0_wUApMUBjauOCqI56NyCAr5qbIvsDpsPY1TeXw-unEcQjD5-bgFvQyWKL3nxpUZKvdX3arx6Y5FEeJBo4Rz5Hapzgh40qH2gB/s1600/opera.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcYMRR16clA_k7HGNYxuHeTz2NECGA3opJLa7WvBVXbc0_wUApMUBjauOCqI56NyCAr5qbIvsDpsPY1TeXw-unEcQjD5-bgFvQyWKL3nxpUZKvdX3arx6Y5FEeJBo4Rz5Hapzgh40qH2gB/s1600/opera.jpg" height="640" width="636" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The theater's seating and stage appears able to support productions of most sizes. What glorious sounds no doubt came from this stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the Opera House burned down, business must have flowed to the other theaters in the city. Here's a sampling of their advertising in 1912 when the Hotel Utica began construction on the Opera House's former site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And so rose the Hotel Utica. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It would be difficult to not spot the Hotel Utica from the ground or the air. The tallest building in town at one time, the structure was built in 1912 on the site of the old Utica Opera House just a block from the Busy Corner. The photo above is from a 1948 document that lauded the future of Utica and listed its advantages in a modern economy. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Miss Pauline Buck<br />Gifford,<br />Maine<br />c/o Mrs. Rogers<br /><br />July 17, 1922<br /><br />Dear Pauline,<br />Here for the night. Go through the Mohawk Valley tomorrow and in Albany for the night. Shall see the state capitol. Saw the state penitentiary at Auburn, NY today. Thru the Berkshires Thurs. Then on to Boston, Plymouth, up the Mass. coast and to Portland if you can come, We looked for a letter from you at Syracuse.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Of course, there were/are a number of other businesses on Lafayette Street. Tribune Bicycles is an example.</span><br />
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inspiring. The astounding steeple height would be the church's crowning
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until 1875. A shortage of funds dogged the project. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can see the unfinished steeple</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in the stereotype photo of a parade celebrating the end of the War in 1865. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next door to Grace Church was the Butterfield House, a fine hotel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Locke is a small town five miles south of Moravia at the southern<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">end of Owasco Lake.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do remember getting my Draft card in the fall of 1961, but I can't recall where the office was in the City of Utica. Since it was a Federal process, it might have been in the Post Office or up on Genesee Hill where the Social Security office was located. But it could also have been at the County Court House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We know nothing of William Howell Tatem of Camden, New Jersey, except he was born a year before my grandfather. I would not have guessed Grandpa at his age had to register for the Draft during World War II, but it seems he did. Grandpa was 63 years old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, so of course he wasn't called up. But what a huge specter was the Draft to us young men and our sweethearts so many years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> The Oneida County Court House brings to mind a story of a trial held there in the late 1940s. I know I have a story for everything, and so it should be no surprise I was captivated by the drama regarding the murder of a Japanese man at Sylvan Beach. I happened to know the wife of the murderer when I was a teenager. I mowed her lawn. I fictionalized the tale and called it "Duty." It appears in my 2007 book of short stories, "A Real Writer," under the title "Vengeance."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But you can read it online without buying anything. Go to:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm"><span style="font-size: small;">Master Story List at http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm </span></a></span></span><br />
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guy in front turned right. You put him up high enough so he could see what the front of the truck was doing. Think about
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jumping out of bed at 2a.m. directly into pants and boots set up at the foot of the bed. Then down the fire pole to the engine room below. Horses screaming in fright as they're hooked to the engine or ladder and hose trucks. And in later decades the smell of rubber and gasoline and the sound of the behemoth truck engines roaring to life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jumping off the trucks, the crew was ready to </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> quench the fir</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">e and </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">to </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">save anyone in sight . In my father's time, the firefighters were met at the scene by the Chief and his assistant traveling
separately in the Chief's car (no doubt so the two could get there first.)
The Chief's job was to assess the fire and quickly plan an attack. The
assistant's job was to collar all the firemen and stop them from jumping in
feet first. There were too many instances of pumped up firemen taking an axe
and chopping down the front door of a residence before checking to see if it
was locked. And once a resident opened his door and was almost speared by a pike pole. Luckily he quickly jumped out of the way of the fireman rushing in to save him.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, a section of the page from Utica's Weekly Herald describing the Genesee Flats fire of 1896. Four souls were lost, a wonder given the extent of the fire. "Flats" was a fashionable term in the 1890's and the apartments afforded sumptuous living for the wealthy, either as a primary or vacation home. Not long after the fire completely destroyed the building, the owners rebuilt the structure two stories lower (for fire safety reasons) and called it the Olbiston Apartments. It still stands today ... though with a clientele with presumably lesser circumstances ... at the corner of Genesee Street and Clinton Place. The fire and its victims have been the subject of historical interest and a good deal of writing by the late Jon Hynes researcher, technologist and master of the electric and acoustic bass; artist and writer Fiona O'Downey; and myself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The following selection is from my fictionalized account of one spectator, William Foley, a newspaper boy who used the fire alarm on the corner to call in an additional alarm for more fire department apparatus. The piece is </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> entitled "Blame." It is </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">more in-depth than the original story, "Billy Foley's Morning." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: black;">"I stood up from the stone bench quickly when I smelled smoke in the air.
It was a sharp smell, not at all like
wood or coal smoke. A bell clanged down the block and horses neighed and in
another minute all hell broke loose as the team of horses and men from the fire
department’s Engine Company No.1 pounded through the Oneida Square. The few people crossing the roadway scattered like pigeons and the
rear wheels of the pumper wagon slid sideways when the driver hauled the reins
sharply to the left and forced the beasts up Genesee Street. Holy Cripes, they
were pulling the huge fire engine pumper I'd read about in the paper, a Cole Brothers Steamer. The
firemen’s wrenches and hammers and spikes clanged against the copper sides of
the big steam dome. It sounded like
cannibals banging on a big pot as they waited for their dinner. Every dog in the
neighborhood chased the two wagons and the steam pumper. A man ran by and
shouted “The Flats is on fire!” </span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An unfortunate accident in which a horse pulling the steam pumper was killed. It happened on lower Genesee Street (you can see the canal "Hump Bridge" at the far right.) The photo was carried by newspapers across the nation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Firefighting was dangerous work and it still is so today. Luckily, the UFD has a
estimable safety record for both the firefighters and victims. I have
to believe it got started in earnest after the famous Crouse Block fire on Broad Street
in 1897. Two Firemen, Isaac Monroe and John O'Hanlon, were killed when the
burning building collapsed on them. They've been immortalized by the locally
famous Fireman monument in St. Agnes Cemetery. O'Hanlon had been cited for
bravery in the Genesee Flats (later the Olbiston) Fire just a few years
before. When the monument was installed at the Mohawk Street cemetery, my
great grandfather, Patrick, was listed with UFD's First Division in the news
account of the well attended ceremony. His membership would have been
largely ceremonial by 1898, given his age, but with ample reason since he had
been one of the early organizers of Utica's city-wide fire department.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the 1970s I was a volunteer fireman in a small rural fire district in New York's Catskill Mountains. I have tried to maintain my sense of humor in the face of a few tragedies I witnessed.</span></span><br />
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our bedroom were necessary to
accommodate what the kids were calling, “Dad’s latest hobby … again.” I pushed the cuffs of the special fire pants into
the boot tops and set it all up at the foot of our bed. This would allow me to simultaneously jump
right into my pants and boots when the fire alarm sounded in the middle of the
night. For the next few evenings, I practiced
the jump soon after we settled down in bed, until Mrs. Dave threatened me with
the fireman’s Pike Pole that I had left standing in a corner. The pole has a curved spike on the end of it
for ripping boards and roofing off a building.
I won’t repeat what she said she would do with it."</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Fraser store fire. Rebuilt, it eventually became the building that housed Woolworths during my days downtown in the 1950s and early 60s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Gardner Building fire, southwest corner of Genesee and Columbia Streets. 1947. If on duty that day, my father would have been tillering the No. 2 Hook and Ladder truck. Notice all the hose. It may not seem like a lot from this height, but down on the ground it's quite a task to roll up after each fire. The outside sleeve was a </span><span style="font-size: large;">covering of </span><span style="font-size: large;">fabric and </span><span style="font-size: large;">back at the fire house</span><span style="font-size: large;"> each length had </span><span style="font-size: large;">to be unrolled and dried . Else, mold would set in, just like when a wet tent is stored away. Rolling up hose in this weather was a back breaking job since the ice made it heavier and stiffer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You saw this in an earlier section. Called by some the Long Block Fire (not because a number of buildings were involved, which has been proposed by some), because that section of lower Genesee Street was often called the Long Block because no lateral streets intercepted the west side. According to my father, the firemen of the time called it the Allen's Bakery fire, because that's where the fire started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like this photo for several reasons, one of which is the reminder that Langdon Hughes was right next door to Central on Elizabeth Street and after school I sometimes stopped by and bought one small switch or component for my radios in the attic. (See "Out of Gas" at http://www.windsweptpress.com/outofgas.pdf or .doc) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My friend Rich (UCA, 1960) and I spent much of our spare time building radios and conversing in Morse code (and sometimes in voice) with hams all over the country and in Europe. For both of us it's truly been a wonderful hobby that has lasted all of our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, this was Post Street before it was torn down. Drinking, prostitution and gambling were all part and parcel of the neighborhood. I'm sure many of the residents would have said, "It's a living." It certainly was a living for newspaper reporters working for local newspapers. Looking through the old archives there was always a story of some mayhem, crime or personal tragedy occurring on the street. Frankly, Post Street provided a constant stream of human interest articles portraying a people who were not about to sue newspaper management over the loss of their reputations. Post Street residents were safer to write about and were no doubt a mirror to the same human peccadilloes taking place in the city's white population. One group you could write about, the other you couldn't.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, Fiona's photograph of Post Street in 2012, running west down its length. You can see the unique window trim of stone on the back firehouse wall, ext<span style="font-family: inherit;">reme left.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At the very end of Post Street can be seen the back extension of what we always called the Woolworth Building. Such a view was blocked years ago by the office buildings on Charlotte Street, but today they have been replaced by parking. (Half the downtown has been replaced by these lots. I wonder if Utica should be called The City of Parking.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above left, Post Street seen on the highly accurate 1883 Map of Utica. On the right is another aeral view of the neighbor<span style="font-family: inherit;">hood.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Below is an enlargement from the 1883 map.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Brick buildings are colored red while wood buildings are yellow. There aren't many buildings on Post Street and many are small.. Note the "Colored Presbyterian Chapel," where evidently Mother Lavender was often found.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Treatise on a dark subject - The Serious</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Side of a Social Phenomenon</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">New York has it's Green street, Utica has its Post Avenue. Each has better neighborhoods to live in, - luckily for everybody concerned. And yet there was a time when Green street had some pretentions to respectability, and when Post Avenue boasted what were then considered good residences. How many of our citizens have walked thorough Post Avenue within the past five years. Very few. It is rated a dirty locality <br /><br />It is dirty, but more inside of the frame dwellings that face the street than in the street itself. The pavements are kept rarely clean, - cleaner than they are on many streets of more pretentious and more reputable fame. Only the odors, and the prevailing air of steady, long-continued decay which has fastened<br />itself on the very frames of the dwellings would lead the casual passer-by to the knowledge that he was among the Way-Down Folks.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />Sometimes they beg provisions.<br />Sometimes they buy provisions.<br />Sometimes they steal provisions.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From The Utica Herald Dispatch, Thursday Evening, December 15, 1900.</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Mrs. Lavender in City Court</b><br /><b>She demands That Post Avenue be “Cleaned Out”</b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">GIRL CHARGED WITH THEFT.</span><br /><br />Results
of a Growler Party – Judge O’Conner says That all He wants is evidence
against disorderly plces – Custom of Syracuse Colored Girls<br /><br />Miss
Ada Mingo, colored, 22 years old, was in City Court this morning,
charged with petit larceny. The complainant was William Rogers, white,
and he alleged that she stole $12 from his person and that he did not
miss the amount until after he had said au revoir to Ada for the night.
Ada was arrested by Officer Mullen last evening. When searched at the
Police Station the only thing found in her possession was cash to the
amount of $1.50. She strenuously denied the theft and was real provoked
at being locked up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With the building of the Central FIre Station in 1912 the Post Street neighborhood was destroyed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">December 1, 1912</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The bright spot on Post Street was Mother Lavender.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mrs. Lavender was an interesting
character. Also known as Mother Lavender she was a preacher and
reformer. As far as I can tell, she took over the small "Colored
Presbyterian Church" on Post Street and called it Hope Chapel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Utica's Mother Lavender</b><br /><br /> "Born
into slavery and sold away from her family at age 7, Ellen Elizabeth
Lavender had a horrific life in bondage and a benevolent one in freedom.<br /> Moving
north after her emancipation in 1865, Elizabeth first settled in
Albany, New York with her son, Amos, born as a result of a forced mating
with another slave in order to create a new generation of slaves.<br /> In
Albany, she married Nicholas Lavender with whom she had </span><span style="font-size: large;">one surviving
child, Nicholas Jr. After her husband’s death, she relocated to Utica,
New York where she spent the rest of her life dedicated to her ministry
of helping those less fortunate than herself.<br /> Despite her
illiteracy, color, and financial deprivation, she was able to establish a
following of workers and contributors, resulting in an annual New
Year’s Day Dinner for the poor, satisfying her belief that no one should
start a new year on an empty stomach. Serving as many as 900 in her
home, the dinners that began in 1901 were held without interruption
until 1968, despite her death in 1928. While this was clearly her most
visible event, Mother Lavender, as she affectionately became known, had a
daily ministry, one for which she always kept the door of her home open
for anyone in need of a meal or a temporary place to sleep.<br /> Her
commitment to doing good deeds lives in the memory of all who were in
any way associated with her and even today serves as an inspiration to
those who know of her.<br /> The work traces her life, beginning with
her harsh years in bondage and progressing to her time in Utica and
ultimately to her death. Insight is given on what motivated this
remarkable woman of kindness and devotion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the 1890s, Mother Lavendar began to organize a </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">free </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Years Day dinner for the city's poor. It was to grow in size in the next century.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Utica Daily Press<br />July 10, 1912<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Open Air Meetings</span></b><br /><br />Rev. S.H. Bebe(?), Mrs. Carrie Bebe(?) and Miss Gertrude Elelia(?), colored traveling evangelists from Garden's Theological training School in Boston, together with "Mother" Lavender, the well known local evangelistic worker, have been attracting large crowds on Franklin Square. Their songs. strong addresses and emphatic rxxxx are very impressive. These people are exceptionally earnest in their work and will continue to give open air meetings each evening for the next two weeks at the corner of Elizabeth and Genesee streets, or at Franklin Square.</span></span><br />
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is a much more detailed thread … some 42 pages of posts … about </span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Post
Street</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> written by Fiona O’Downey,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>Above, in front of the Kanateenah Apartments, down the street from the Olbiston Apartments on the corner of Clinton Place and Genesee Streets. This is from a glass plate negative and is a super enlargement of one tiny part of the photo.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are your rough and tumble neighborhood boys. My notes say they are newspaper carriers and you can see their bags. Around 1900.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">These two photos are of boys hanging around outside of the St. James Hotel in Utica. They might earn a few pennies by carrying someone's bags or taking a message to the telegraph office or running other errands.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I know, I used this in a spoof, but couldn't resist using it again. Gives me the opportunity to say I have no date or notes regarding it. But the young women don't look sick and in this wider version you can see the blackboard. I think it's a classroom.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The kids are from St. Mary's parish school in Pittston, PA. On top is the class of 1928. I just wanted to show you what a class of 13 year olds in that era looked like dressed in their best. Down on the right is a photo I found of today's students from the same St. Mary's school. This group is in early high school. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, from Utica's Observer Dispatch. </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Scroll right to see entire clipping.)</span></span></b> The photo was taken on Oriskany Boulevard. You can see the Hotel Martin close in the background and the upper floors of the Hotel Utica farther away. A happy </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">day for boys who might now expect their fathers, older brothers and uncles to return home safely.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the right, a worker assembles fishing reels, just as he would if he worked at Horrocks-Ibotson's on Whitesboro Street instead of a company in Kalamazoo, Michigan.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many people used gas piped into their homes for lighting before moving up to electricity. When I was a kid there were gaslight sconces that had been converted to electric on the walls of some homes in lower Cornhill (below Square Street, arbitrarily.) And of course, coal gas was used for cooking. The gas was a byproduct from burning soft coal to run the steam generators that produced electricity for Utica. Coke was another result of that process. Customers found coke didn't burn as well as coal, but it was cheaper. Eventually most people switched to electric lights and bought other appliances that used electricity, such as radios and washing machines and refrigerators. Later ... just before WW II, I think ... Natural Gas was piped in from states to the south of New York and coal gas went out of favor.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kit Temple answered my plea and wrote with the following information: "His name was Fred Marron. I ran into Freddy a few times over the years and he always had a smile and pleasant words to share with everyone.<br /> "Freddy and a fellow named Bob Jones were both motorcycle cops for the Utica Police Dept. Their bikes were specially equipped Harley Davidsons. They used to stop in at Glista Bros Shell gas station on Oriskany Blvd (on the corner of State St.) around lunchtime every day, and sometimes have a cup of coffee. Kenny Aikin, the guitar player in my band 'The Nitecaps' worked at Glista Bros. at the time. Freddy also had a side business selling advertising items and we bought the band's first business cards from him in 1963. They were gray lettering on a transparent blue material."</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below, shoppers on Genesee Street just down the block from the City National Bank, the tallest building in Utica at one time.</span></span></b><br />
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man is Harry Simmonds. The photo was
taken around 1881 or </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">82 in</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Watley's </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">End</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">England</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">, just before he immigrated with
his uncles to </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Dudley Ave.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> in east </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Utica</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">. *</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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mother Matilda had not married. The pregnancy was the result of an illicit
union between Matilda and her father's brother, which is definitely a 'no-no'. Also, the family believes the union was
against her will, which is a <u>very</u> <u>big</u> 'no-no.' </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Rose Sacher whose mother's family had immigrated from </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Germany</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> in 1854. Harry and Rose were married in 1902. In 1928 they moved to </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Richardson Ave.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> in south </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Utica</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> and were among the founders of the
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">* Editor: I still can't get used to calling Cornhill east Utica. So I don't. To me, from Rutger to the Parkway, from Mohawk to Oneida I call Cornhill. And everyone who lived there defined it as such. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Lincoln Avene bus ran from under the Burrstone Road bride down to State Street
and then made a right on to Columbia. It
crossed Genesee Street in
the lee of Grace church and
then came back west along the side of Daws Drugs to the Busy corner. I find myself amazed to not recall which
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I suppose I always jumped off at Grace Church when I was in the fifth grade,
anxious to get to Woolworth's to buy more paper and ink. If I had money I bought those small three by
six inch pads and back ink for my stamp pad.
My little desk at home was stuffed with those paper pads, bottles of
ink, my small rubber type printing press, my crystal radio and a broken clock
from the dashboard of my Uncle Walt's 1937 Chevy. I've always liked clocks that don't work. See "Waiting For Me" at </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Columbia Street was unusual in that it comtained many retail stores, just like Genesee Street. But somewhat like Bleecker Street, Columbia Street's stores were more family and bargain oriented ... for the most part. Berger's Department store was here and before the State Street Mill opened in the late 1950's, you couldn't find better bargains (price wise, anyway) than at Berger's.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To bore you further with my journals, Berger's figures prominently in my story, Boots, at the following url.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The intersection of Genesee, Columbia, Elizabeth and Seneca Streets was almost as busy as the Busy Corner.. In fact in the 1940s and possibly earlier a traffic policeman was assigned just like the more famous intersection a block to the north. Above, the photographer was standing in the road with his back to Grace Church, shooting west. (Eventually standing in the road with your undivided attention focused into a camera's viewfinder would get pretty dangerous.) In the photo, you can see City Hall up the street to the left and directly in front of us is the Gardner Building, it's face slightly turned from Gensee Street and lining up more with Seneca. As we saw in an earlier post, the Gardner Building burned in 1947. I don't know if was refurbished after the fire and was still around when I was a kid. It's gone today, according to Google Maps. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By the way, if the photographer from the Gardner Building photo above walked up Genesee a block and looked back on the Columbia Street intersection ... and his Time Machine shaved off a few years ... the scene before his eyes would be the following. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Following the commercial real estate around Utica in past years was somewhat of a sport, due to mergers, sales and the hectic business climate of the 1920s and 1930s. For example, on what I refer to as the "Rexall Corner," the southwest point on the Busy Corner, there was in 1900 a rather residential looking white faced building with a mansard roof. Later, in the early 1930s it was replaced with a new building owned by Citizen's Trust. Next we got Rexall's in the 1950s and in the meanwhile the bank building at the head of Seneca Street where it meets Columbia becomes the First Bank and Trust.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Clearing snow with a trolley and plow on Columbia Street with the side of the First Bank and Trust in the background. You can see the small newstand that occupied that space for years. Below is a photo of the news stand, famous in Utica for the woman who ran it, in better weather. Not much better, but at least it wasn't snowing.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, same bank, probably sometime in the 1960s. Photographer is standing on Seneca Street, maybe half way down to Lafayette. Below is a photo that appeared<u> </u>in an earlier post on Lafayette Street. When Marine Midland took over First Bank and Trust, they evidently displaced the building right next door as well as the A&P just down the street.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Intersection of Seneca and Lafayette with the A&P and First Bank and Trust up at the end of Seneca Street where it meets Columbia Street.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And below is a touched up photo of the bank building when it was called Citizen's Trust Company. Looks to be the late 1920s.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We don't seem to be getting very far down Columbia Street, do we? That's because I don't have a hell of a lot of photos of the streeet. But you probably guessed that.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here again is the photo I ran at the top of this post. This time I've removed the bus I temporarily photo-shopped into the scene. Did you notice it had no driver?</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was a junior in high school, I worked after classes for a wholesale company on lower Genesee Street and would often deliver watches to Sonne Brothers, the store on the corner of Washington Street on the left in the above photo. Although my employer considered himself a wholesale jeweler, he made most of his living selling electric fry pans. Sorry to keep interrupting while I plug my stories, but some of you may enjoy them. "Mr. Frypan" is here:</span></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Master Stories List at </span></b>http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm</span></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And here is the certainly famous Berger's Deparatment Store. Certainly it was famous among working men's families.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's not forget St. Joseph's Church out on Columbia Street. It was later merged with St. Patrick's. My notes say the photo below is of the church's sanctuary. You'll see where St. Joseph's was located on the map farther down in this post.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And farther out Columbia Street ... before my time and yours ... was the first St. Elizabeth's Hospital. An older photo is shown below, followed by a portion of the 1883 map illustrating that it was just down the street past St. Joseph's Church.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the left, below, is a wider view and on the right a close up. Look to the right of the hospital for St. Joseph's. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We'll go as far out Columbia as Eddie's Bar. I'm not exactly sure of its location. The photo below appears to be from the 1960s.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And finally, when we come back to Genesee Street, this is what we'll see today.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I'm not sure if the above photo was taken in Utica, but it was labeled "The Blizzard of 1888. It was not unusual for people to come out after a storm and help each other by shoveling out residences as well as businesses. Shoveling in a large group must have been fun. I suppose.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How about that, a beer truck convention!</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above a modern photo of the Utica Club brewery. I don't know if its official name is West End Brewery or F.X. Matt Brewing Company, etc.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A very serious train wreck in Boonville around 1900. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below, the Parkway tennis courts
at an earlier date, probably the 1950s. Below that is the armory on the
Memorial Parkway where Albany Street crosses. It is now occupied by
the U.S. Army National Guard. There were two armories in Utica at one
time, the first was on Rutger Street on the edge of Steuben Park. And
the one pictured below, called the Cavalry Armory. Horse stalls were
still intact the last time I was in the building in the 1960s. When I
asked the "General" at the time why they didn't tear out the stalls and
make better use of the space, he responded that in the event of a
nuclear attack, cars and trucks might not work or gas might not be
available. But horses had won wars for thousands of years. I don't
know if he was serious.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is the Country Day School, adjacent to where Utica Mutual Insurance Company would one day reside. When Notre Dame high school opened for boys only in the fall of 1960, construction on the new school building on Burrstone Road was just getting started. So ND's first classes of 1961 through 1964 spent the '60-'61 school year here, in the most unbelievable dump one could imagine. The place was mess and smelled of dead flies throughout. For good reason, the auditorium was infested with them and their dead bodies littered the floor like a black snow fall. It wasn't easy to get to on the bus either, on the very end of the New Hartform Genesee Street bus route.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MVTI (later MVCC) had held classes there before us and I don't know when the original school for the children of the elite closed it doors. But I always wondered what those kids died of.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's another photo of the Country Day School below, with a group of children large enough to be the entire student population. Although the boys are wearing coats and the girls jumpers, Including the younger students in the front of the group, I don't think they're from a nearby Catholic school. To my knowledge, the buildings were torn down shortly after Notre Dame High School spent the one year there. in 1960-1961. I have to assume these kids were students at the original Country Day School. There appear to be faculty sprinkled on the edges far left and far right. No nuns.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Their dress would not have been unusual at a private school in the 1950s. The girls' uniforms are an example. Although I remember the nuns at our Catholic schools saying the purpose of uniforms was to thwart dress competition in which those with less family money would be at a disadvantage, the real reason probably was to make us and our parents feel exclusive. As in special.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bicyclists on Broad Street on a Sunday afternoon, 1890s. With a wheel that size and the pedals fixed in relation to it, the cyclist's speed was probably limited by how fast his legs could go up and down. Had he been able to install a modern coasting hub on the bike, the higher speed attained would have no doubt been dangerous.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe the Fraser Store above is the building I knew as Woolworth's in the 1950s. I came to that conclusion after studying a number of photos and analyzing the windows and their layout. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> At left, hair styles in the 1941 Utica Free Academy Yearbook. Came across the comparison while looking for articles on UFA.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the right is a barber's window on the Busy Corner.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Early sketch of Utica around 1800, Mohawk River in foreground flowing past developing Baggs Square.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Harry Simmonds. You'll find his story as a new addition to the People of Utica. Scroll down to the bottom of the post when you get here:</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, Utica's City Hosptial. You're looking at the front door that faced South Street. There was a small campus of buildings where the shopping center now sits on Eagle and Mohawk. I was brought here for a Tetanus shot when I was a kid. The porches in the photo were long gone. Below is another view. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below, the flag of the Utica Morning Herald from 1899. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Umpires who served the Utica Blue Sox, a municipal baseball team in the 1930's and 40's.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, a Kut brand knife from Utica Cutlery. Ca. 1948.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, the Rome and Delta Lake Railway. Ca. 1900</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you take a close look at the photos above and below, you'll see a graphic representation of what has happened to the commercial center of Utica where comparison years are 1948, above, and 2013, below. Note the number of buildings that have been torn down.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I came down into the valley from my home where I lived in the Catskills, after a few miles I would cross the NY State Thruway just before reaching the Hudson River. I knew a farm family in the the town whose parents completely re-oriented the plans for a house they were building </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in the early 1950s </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">so they could sit on their front porch and watch the cars and trucks go by on the Thruway. Such was the fascination of people at the time the road was built. I wonder how folks on Herkimer Road felt during the same decade.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not Holy Trinity's original church before the stone structure was built. Else there would be a crucifix at the top of the steeple.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And old neighbor gave me an ancient straw hat. They're heavier than I had anticipated. That's OK, I really had no place to wear one. I looked all around town for a trolley but couldn't find one.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the old Armory on Rutger Street. View is up Park Ave on the western edge of Steuben Park.</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">James Schoolcraft Sherman was a United States Representative from
Utica, New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States under
President William Howard Taft (1909-1913.)</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, for the life of me, I can't figure out where this photo was taken. Given the businesses and the slope of the street, I'd say Genesee Street, possibly where Washington Street intersects. Note the Fanny Farmer at extreme right. When I hung around downtown Utica, Fanny Farmer was on the Busy Corner. I wonder if this is Utica?</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If the above monument looks vaguely familiar, you probably saw it in your headlights as you and your girl friend were coming down from the Eagle late one night. It's right on the 90 degree turn at the top of the hill on what is now known as Master Garden Road running up from Oneida Street. The monument sits in the New Forest Cemetery and is a memorial to <span class="userContent">Justus Henry Rathbone, founder of the Knights
of Pythias with lodges all over the land. Rathbone was born in Deerfield, educated at C<span class="text_exposed_show">olgate
and eventually found his way to the nation’s capitol. He was an actor,
composer, school teacher and evidently made a lot of friends. He worked
for the U.S. Treasury. The Knights of Pythias took their name from a
character in the play by the Irish poet John Banim about the legend of
Damon and Pythias.</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, one of my favorite postcards. Fiona found it. I can just see myself headed out Oneida Street a hundred years ago, having put a dollar's worth of gas in the tank, and wondering how far it would take me. Including the return trip, of course.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, this young man was spending his time in 1949 just as I did ten years later. Crowding my younger brother out of bedroom I had radios stacked on one wall and I worked other Hams around the United States. I tried the attic, but of course it was too cold in winter and too warm in summer. Radio has been a life long hobby and I still use my key more often that the advanced digital technology on modern radios. I still get a thrill from putting up an antenna and contacting other Hams in Europe or North Africa, as well as enthusiasts all over the country.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The corner of Catherine and Mohawk Streets. A brief glimpse of East Utica during a parade in the late 1940s.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was known at various times as the Home for Aged Couples and the Sunset Nursing Home. It was directly across the street from the new and current Faxton Hospital. Sunset Ave.'s name was changed from Perkins Ave. in honor of the Home, I've read.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hard to see in this photo, but here's the pump house that lifted water from Hinckley Lake and sent it on down to Utica.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the Barge Canal was built about a mile north of the Erie Canal, the latter was filled in to provide a surface for Oriskany Boulevard through Utica. In the above photo, workmen and teams of horses take down one of the Erie's many bridges in Utica.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, a medicinal dispensary on Mary Street in Utica around 1900.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the steamer from the No. 7 Engine Company. I'm not sure where Station No. 7 was at the time, but today it's on Park Ave. just a few doors from Oneida Square.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On left is today's UFD Engine No. 7. Below is the Station No. 7 on Park Ave. and Oneida Square.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At one time The No. 1 steam engine was at the fire station on Park and Oneida Square. Engine No. 2 was in the firehouse directly opposite the entrance to St. John's Church on John Street before moving to Central Fire Station when it was built in 1912.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Again for reference, here is the UFD in the late 1880s. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A pleasant presentation of the Utica Library. For some reason I always thought it was a Carnegie library, but it was donated by T.R. Procter.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The following photos were taken by Fiona O'Downey. They are the keystones in the arches over windows on the facade of the Olbiston Apartments on the corner of Genesee Street and Clinton Place. The Olbiston was built on the ruins of the Genesee Flats, which burned to the ground in 1896. Fiona and the late Jon Hynes and myself did quite a bit of research on the fire and planned a novel (or something) about the four people who died that morning when they were caught in the fire. A couple of places to go for more information are Fiona's Facebook page, "On Genesee Hill," at:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the researched history, go to the Busy Corner Forum on Probaords at:</span></span></b><br />
<a href="http://clipper220.proboards.com/thread/2238/history-genesee-flats-fire"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://clipper220.proboards.com/thread/2238/history-genesee-flats-fire</span></span></b></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A treatment and a few pieces that will eventually be included in On Genesee Hill are contained in our OGH website at:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/ogh1.htm">http://www.windsweptpress.com/ogh1.htm</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm">Master Story List at http://www.windsweptpress.com/stories.htm</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey, that's Great Grandpa Patrick, the city treasurer.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Golf for both men and women became quite opular in Utica in the 1920s and 30s.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't remember this diner. It must have been gone by the late 1950s when I walked home to Cornhill </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">after a date. I </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">often missed the last bus home from North Utica while I tarried too long on her front porch.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, how many shows did you recognize?</span></b></span><br />
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<br />Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07029884483742697015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1675547787323729926.post-73909864502684075572014-03-09T10:00:00.000-07:002014-09-27T15:10:26.050-07:00Catch All Three<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evidently, Utica Mutual had purchased the land for their home office and had no plans for the Day School on the property. They agreed to lease the school to what became Mohawk Valley Technical Institute (and then MVCC in 1962). Where on the property they planned to build their headquarters we don't know, but by the summer of 1960 when Notre Dame leased the property for a year, Utica Mutual's headquarters were built and had been in operation for a few years. In fact, in 1959 a tractor trailer lost its brakes coming down Route 12 and crashed through the front wall into first floor offices in the building one evening after most employees had thankfully left the building. Article below.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was a popular "kid's bar" in the late 1960s. Located on the southwest corner of John and Catherine Streets, it was steps away from the Observer Dispatch loading dock of the time. Before that era the place was Butch's Tomohak and I remember going in there occasionally on Monday nights after stuffing Family Weekly magazines into the Sunday Comics when I was a college freshman. Butch's most memorable feature was the men's room off the bar and under a stairway. You had a choice of sitting on a sickeningly dirty toilet seat or trying to stand up and lean backwards under the stairway while attempting to get close enough to the pot to not make a mess. Very difficult to do if you were not a Contortionist. Ergo, the dirtiest toilet in downtown Utica.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At left is tje Our Lady of Lourdes parish school on Barton Avenue just off of Genesee Street. I spent grades four through eight there. Many of the my classmates went with me to Utica Catholic Academy. I've documented a bit more (not much) in my thread on UCA in the MoreStories Forum at:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">T.R. Proctor donates what will eventually become three parks: Roscoe Conkling, FT Proctor and TR Proctor Parks</span></span></b>.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Above is a view of Genesee Street that shows the distance from the Busy Corner to the Winston Building at the intersection of Washington Street.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Uticans or formers Utican do not need to be told what they're looking at. The photo was probably taken shortly before Anna Stoddard penned the note to Miss Black in Winooski, Vermont. The automobiles would bear this out.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">What we knew as the Savings Bank of Utica along with its gold dome breaks frame right and evidently the coloring artist missed applying some yellow or gold. (Or did I once hear the dome wasn't always gold?) We see the wedged shaped Winston Building at lower left that forms the intersection of Washington Street. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Anna wrote from 927 Schuyler Street in Utica: "Sorry I couldn't see you before I left, but I didn't have time to make any calls at all.Had to go to bed as soon as I got here with the Grippe. We like very much. Regards to family. Sincerely, Anna Stoddard." </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>If Google Maps is correct (and it sometimes is not) here is 927 Schuyler Street today. The home is off Court Street in West Utica. Winooski is an old mill town next door to Burlington, Vermont on Lake Champlain.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This shot appears </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">by the style of the cars </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">to have been taken in the 1940s. I'd guess the photographer was standing in front of the former Butterfield House shooting across the street. The building breaking frame on the right is the Gardner Building. It's front facade is lined up with Seneca Street rather than Genesee Street. We saw it on fire in the winter in a previous post (Elizabeth Street II.)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Above: I ran this before, but now have a bit more information. I'm not old enough to remember circus parades up Genesee Street in Utica. My earliest memories were filled with Memorial Day parades consisting of one or two UFD fire companies and loads of war surplus tanks that thrilled our little military hearts (during the Korean War.) On the building behind the elephant you can see the sign for the J. Conrad Max Coal Company. Here is their entry from the 1913 Utica City Directory:</span></b><br />
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<pre><b><span style="font-size: large;">J. Conrad Max & Co.
Miners and Shippers
High Grade Bituminous Coal
Greensburg and Yonghiogheny Gas Coals, Rey-
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Foundry and Furnace Coke
240 Genesee Street,
UTICA, N. Y. </span></b></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Fiona tells me this is the Winston Building and the windows appear to verify she's right. (She's always right!) </span></b></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Many of us remember coal yards situated in different neighborhoods around Utica in the</span></b></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">sure there was no coal out back of J. Conrad Max. In fact, all of their coal may have been on trains in</span></b></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">shippment to Utica and other cities where the coal was offloaded directly into factories and power plants. </span></b></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Notice their ad above specifies bituminous coal. That was a soft coal</span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> used in industry. In the thousands </span></b></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">of furnaces in the basements of Utica area homes the burned for heat was a hard coal called anthracite. </span></b></span></pre>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The elephant is an excellent advertising device, as anyone should know. Paste your message on her sides and you're bound to attract passersby who will read your message, if they're not running from the beast. The circus, or carnival as Francis Feraris styled his show, could be quite large, depending upon how much you wanted to hire. See the add below for an Ilion visit. It's good to know there were no immoral shows. I guess.</span></b> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another shot from atop City Hall. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trees downtown on Genesee Street were certainly way before my time. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">I like the tree shadows in this photo. OK, let's get down on the street and work our way up the west side of Genesee Street. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is a colorized photo from about where City Hall used to be at one time. The street coming in on the far left is Pearl (City Hall sat on the corner of Pearl and Genesee Street.) So City Hall is just out of frame on the left.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you look down the left hand side of the street toward Seneca Square (where Columbia Street begins at Genesee) you can just barely see an outdoor clock. Let me blow it up for you. It looks like the same type of clock that today stands at Washington and Genesee Streets.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The letters across the front of old City Hall in this photo spell out "1832 Utica Centennial 1832." And the autos verify this was shot in 1932. It looks so ancient, but in reality it's only 11 years before my birthday. OK, you can tell me I'm ancient.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Below, another shot of City Hall in the 1950s. Interesting thing about this photo is that Jeep-style vehicles have changed only a little, while the Studebaker swept-around style has pretty much left the stage. Also notice in the upper left corner the Industrial Bank of Utica</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">has their name painted on their building.</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> My parents were their customers for ages, I can personally attest (through my mother's experience) that even as late as the 1970's the Industrial Bank did their checking accounts manually without optical-sense accounting and routing numbers printed on the checks. The bank happened to have two Mary Griffins as checking customers and asked my mother to have my father sign her checks because they were confusing the two Marys when they processed checks and taking money out of the wrong accounts. Hard to believe, but true. It's no wonder they're no longer with us, as far as I know.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, where else would you be able to read such scintillating tales except at a Post Card presentation?</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Below: From City Hall behind the tree in the center of the photo up toward Washington Street. Looks like there's a firehouse wedged in there. Possibly someone knows which company it was.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> Below, business conducted at the Savings Bank of Utica during a typical winter's day</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Below, the bank with the Mayro Building next door.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Below, more of the Mayro Building. I've seen them, but I can't remember the names of the gentlemen whose names were contracted to form "MayRo."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Below, a photo of the aftermath of the Blizzard of '66. I don't know what Uticans experienced in the snow fall, but I remember the 3 day storm's totals in the cities I spent time in during 1966, just a few months after I was married. 140 inches in Watertown, 108 in Oswego and 96 in Syracuse. At the time I commuted from Syracuse to school at Oswego. I started up Route 48 just as the snow began. It was heavy and blowing so hard at Fulton that I crossed over the river to Route 57, a better road, and continued north for about five miles. I had never seen such snow, and believe me, I commuted in every kind of weather. A snow storm was not a show stopper. But this one was different. It was fierce and I turned the car around in the middle of 57 (crazy, I know) and headed back south. Had I not done that and presuming I ever reached Oswego, I would have spent the next three days there.</span></b> </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">We should have a quick glance down Washington Street. There are a couple of classic buildings just down from Genesee Street. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Above you can see the old Balliol School at far left and the Westminister Church next door.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I believe the Balliol was at one time a young lady's school and eventually it housed the Utica YMCA. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What a beautiful building! </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">I do not know the denomination of the Westminister Church, but I'd guess it was Episcopal.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Finally we come to the intersection of Genesee and Hopper and Court Streets.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Below is a photo of the old Albert Hodel for Men. It became Utica's Masonic Temple. On the right in the photo is the New Century Club for professionals and businessmen.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a closer view of the New Century Club on the corner of Genesee And Hopper Streets.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Across the street on the corner of Court Street was the Fort Schuyler Club. Having never been invited to join when I was a teenager (or ever), I remember it as a bus stop. Here are a number of views.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> On the south corner of Genesee and Court Streets was what we called the Gas and Electric Building. At the time I was around Utica the owner would have been Niagara-Mohawk.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">A couple of details from the above photo. Not good resolution, but interesting.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> A peek up Hopper Street would have seen many "professional" homes of this type. It was still there when this photo was taken in the past ten years.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">OK, we'll take a break here. I don't plan to go any farther than Oneida Square. I would like to do "Buses and Trolleys" and something on Cornhill, where I spent most of my growing up years. I don't have many photos for a section on "Court Street to Oneida Square," except some interesting construction photos of the Stanley Theater in 1927. When we come back we'll do that, maybe extending it up Genesee Hill to the Olbiston. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am not used to depending upon photos. When I read my prose in public I like to draw pictures in the audience's mind, a craft I enjoy. The more imaginative the audience, the more fun we have. I would turn down an offer to read for an group of accountants, who would probably not follow my writer's voice, meaning the way I use language. I love to read to children, but am seldom asked. My topics are thought to be beyond them. But many adults would be amazed at what children can understand. They spend enough time with adults to figure it all out. At least one reader recently gave the following story to a youngster and she was said to identify very well with it:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Regarding the Stanley, and starting at the beginning, first they dug a hole. I believe construction began in 1927. Here's a picture of the hole they dug and the equipment used for the task.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The construction took just over a year and it resulted in a stunning building with an opulent interior. Photo below shows what it looks like today, the decor restored to a </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">fine finish.</span></span></b></div>
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upstream. The building below should be a familiar sight to anyone from
Utica because it has been there for a long time on the corner of Genesee
and South Streets. And in my memory it has always been a Firestone
store.</span></span></b><br />
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Street got its name when it ran along the southern border of the city,
just north of Cornhill. When the Cornhill area was annexed to the city
of Utica, Pleasant Street (<span style="font-family: inherit;">closely paralleled by Proctor's "Parkway" over to Genesee St<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></span>) became the new border.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Does anyone remember the Toddle House diner? There were a few hundred of them in the United States. Each was built to look like a small brick cottage, a popular design before WW II for small buildings used as lunch spots, gas station offices and wayside bars. The design spoke to Ameria's enthrallment with neat and tidy. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There was a Toddle House just up the hill from the Stanley on the opposite side of Genesee Street at the foot of Dakin Street. I could find no photos of it, but below is a drawing of their signature design.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Toddle House Restaurants were built on site of brick or made in factories of porcelain coated steel, impressed to look like white painted brick. The basic size was only 12 by 24 feet with a serving counter (no tables or booths) and ten stools bolted to the floor. Some Toddle Houses didn't follow the basic design, but all of them displayed the sign common to the company's logo. Toddle Houses were also built in larger sizes.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Toddle Houses were smaller than an obvious competitor, the White Tower. The Toddle House was a one man or woman operation. The attendant cooked, served the counter and cleaned up. The restaurant never closed, running for 24 hous and open all night. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A brand new Toddle House arriving in the neighborhood. I wonder if the people in the house are expecting it. Picture them coming out to get the newspaper in the morning and finding one squeezed in between their house and a neighbor's.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> A Toddle House innovation was the Cashier Machine. Billed as an implementation of the honor system, it allowed the attendant to keep cooking and serving and not have to simultaneously play cashier. Typical all-inclusive lunch prices were less than a dollar and the customer placed the coins in the glass sided box near the door as he left. He was supposed to wait for an OK from the attendant, who could see the cash via a system of mirrors. The attendant </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">evidently </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">saw the coins well enough to count them, said "Thank You Sir" (or Ma'm) and operated the foot lever to drop the coins into a lock box below. In this way the attendant never handled any money. Only the owner could come in and take the cash and it was thus safe from robbery during the wee hours of the night, unless the robber had a crow bar. When use of the Cashier Machine ceased sometime in the 1940's, some customers were insulted to no longer have the "honor system." With the mirrors it doesn't sound very honor-like, but in practical terms it may have been so because cheating would have been fairly easy.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Below, a Toddle House in Memphis, Tennessee. You could run next door for a cup of coffee during the sermon. (Say, Amen.)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A larger, later model Toddle House now used by Five Guys hamburgers. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well ... I'd say we spent enough time on the Toddle House. My predilection toward small buildings got the best of me. At one time I was kind of a master playhouse builder. The kids enjoyed them and I made sure at least one door was large enough for me to pay an occasional visit. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the nice aspects of viewing old Utica maps is the street names have for the most part not changed very much. Mr. Proctor </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">may be forgiven for renaming Pleasant Street since he </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">paid for the Parkway to connect the parks he gave the city. I don't know why or when Perkins Avenue changed to Sunset Avenue, but I believe it had something to do with the Sunset Home for Aged Couples, the old wooden building across from the current Faxton Hospital. The home was torn down in the late 1950s. I delivered papers there in the summer of 1957.</span></span></b></div>
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convention I call memorialization. Frankly, I'd rather live on River
Street than McNulty Street. I'd even rather live on Crooked Street than Nixon Lane. In the last town I lived in up north (for 35 years) the town fathers of yesteryear went so far as to use both the given and surname to some roads. E.g., John Smith Road. Believe it or not about a mile from me was one end of Clark Van Vlierdan Junior Road. (Those of us who were non-natives used to joke that town families were so intermarried that last names were in short supply, necessitating the use of both first and last names.)</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you slow down a bit on your drive up Genesee Street you'll see fine old residences, today used by physicians and various small businesses. This style of architecture has lately been </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">mixed in with more commercial designs. Along with churches, old stylish residences continue all the way to the Parkway.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And here is where I first fell in love with Librarians. I have a number of views of Utica's Public Library (another gift from T.R. Proctor,) but chose this card because the person who wrote on it had so much to say.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Call me a romantic if you will, but I have had a life-long semi-obsession with women who smell like books. I met my wife in a library, come to think of it. Actually, in the park behind the New York City Public Library. Bryant Park, where Dorothy Day, the Catholic self-styled Fool for Christ, and Peter Maurin (called by some the Apostle to The World, or at least by Miss Day) sat all day once each year to protest The Bomb until they were cordially hauled off to jail by the NYPD as the sun set and the street lights winked on. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bryant Park has been re-gentrified, so to speak. It was nice when my wife and I met, but later turned ugly with addicts and petty criminals. And then a New York City mayor ... I forget which ... said, "What the hell is going on in a city park directly behind the most famous library in the world?" Good question. Millions had been wondering the same for years.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But anyway, the future Mrs. Dave worked nearby and would sometimes in fine weather take her lunch down the street to the park and sit on a bench. I happened to be crossing the park at noon one day in 1964 on my way somewhere. I was always on my way somewhere. That's true today, too, but now I sometimes forget where I'm going. I thought I recognized her and sat down to inquire.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes," I replied, "and I've come all the way to Manhattan looking for you to collect the 65 cents overdue fee you never paid."</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"You know," she said, "that's funny. But what's scary is I think I believe you would do that."</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I hadn't bought these wing tips yet. All I had were those orange shoes from State Street Mill."</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />I don't ever remember being in the school with one notable exception. During the school year, a dance was held for high school students on one Friday night each month. This was the chance to hopefully find that girl you were watching in school. But she never left her group of friends during the school day and was all but unapproachable. </span></span></b><br />
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doing the same and so far no one had been arrested.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What a terrific thing to put one's arms around a woman. In dancing it's treated as commonplace. But it isn't, not really. You </b><b>came into his space, he smelled your sweetness and each felt the other's warmth for the length of "A Summer Place" or "Over The Mountains, Across The Sea" or "The Wind and the Rain In Your Hair." God invented slow songs when He decided He wanted more of us.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This may sound dumb, but I never realized Utica's Park Avenue was so named because it cut a diagonal straight line across the city's streets to connect three parks: Chancellor, Steuben and Oneida, the latter also called Oneida Square because as time went on it sported less grass and more macadam. Today Oneida Square has the controversial (in some quarters) roundabout, but for the first time in years one can approach the Soldiers and Sailors monument without fear of being run down by a fast moving automobile, probably a foreign one at that. Below are photographs of the monument from around 1900. They're followed by a rendering of the new Oneida Square n which you'll see the monument may now be more easily accessed on foot.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>On September 14, 2014, Alan Q. wrote: "The picture of the new round about is beautiful but alas the DPW does not have the money or time to care for the area. The UPD has started a crack-down on the area since it is ripe with drug uses and dealers and other bad stuff."</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Above, the trolley headed up Park Avenue is almost in front of the fire station that housed the No. 1 engine. This was a steam powered pump on four wheels, pulled by horses.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I believe that somewhere near Oneida Square was the Eureka Mower Company of Utica. Its probable location would have been west or north off State Street somewhere. These were what I call sulky mowers with either sickle bars or rotating blades such as the model to the left. Utica was known for manufacturing and a number of farm implement companies were located in the city, as well as down the valley in Frankfort. Quite a large plow company was located on Main Street in Frankfort as late as the 1950s. I remember riding by it as a kid.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> A later addition to Oneida Square was the Kewpee Hamburger restaurant, but I don't know the date.</span></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.windsweptpress.com/ogh1.htm"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.windsweptpress.com/ogh1.htm</span></span></b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I should point out that the Citgo Sign is across the street and not attached to the Olbiston.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">AROUND TOWN - Buses and Trolleys</span></b><br />
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I always thought public
transportation was a great idea, until I met my first Boom Box-er. I
don't know if loud music machines are still allowed on buses. It might
depend upon the size and courage of the driver. In any event, I didn't
stick around to find out. I went back to using an automobile. Price of
gasoline be damned. My ears and aesthetics are worth it.<br />
I can say with some certainty you would not have done anything ill mannered on Angie<span class="text_exposed_show">
LaPorte's bus, which he drove for 8 hours each day back and forth
between Union Station and the Blessed Sacrament Church at the end of the
bus run on Cornhill's James Street. When the buses with a rear exit
door came into use at the Utica Transit Authority, my favorite stunt in
the winter at age 12 was to jump off the bus through the rear door with
enough speed to fly over to the snow bank on the curb. The manner in
which Mr. LaPorte had to angle the bus out of traffic at each bus stop
left about 3 or4 feet of road surface between the rear door and the snow
bank on the curb. Just using my knees to jump wouldn't do it. Getting
as far back from the doorwell on the opposite side of the bus and
launching myself out the door when it opened didn't quite get me to the
curb either. But using a little science, one could find a way to fly.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> If you stood in the aisle a couple of rows back from the door facing the front of the bus you could take advantage of the Physics of the situation. When Mr. LaPort swung the bus to the curb and put on the brakes, I used the forward momentum to launch me down the aisle. In two steps I was moving pretty fast toward the front until I grabbed the stanchion next to the doorwell and whipped myself around the corner and catapulted out the rear door, which opened a half second before I came flying through it. The results were spectacular, if I didn't kill myself. I literally flew out the door, my body twisting in the air, and landed on my back right on top of the snow bank. On my third flight ... the first two being unqualified successes ... my hand slipped off the stanchion and I went tumbling straight down the aisle. At 12 years old I was able to come up on my feet as fast as I had fallen and so continued down to the front door.<br /> "Sorry," I said to Mr. LaPorte," I guess I slipped."<br /> "If you'd like to fly, young man," he said in his gruff voice, "buy an airplane."<br /><br /> A week later I decided I'd risk Mr. Laporte's ire with one final launch before the spring temperatures melted the snow banks. As we got closer to Brinckerhoff Ave., I got into position in the aisle and braced for takeoff. Mr. LaPorte pulled to the curb at the bus stop and applied the brakes as I took off and firmly grabbed the stanchion, whipping my self around and slamming right into the rear door at a terrific rate of speed. The door didn't open and just as I crashed into it I said to myself, "I knew he'd do this to me."<br /> Mr. LaPorte put on the parking brake and came to the back of the bus, where I was picking myself up and crawling up out of the doorwell.<br /> "Did you slip again, young man?" he asked.<br /> "Uh, yeah, I guess so."<br />He pulled out a pair of handcuffs. I hadn't known he carried them.<br /> "You ever try that again, bub, and I'll handcuff you to the seat and run in Luizzi's Drug Store and have them call the cops. You got that?"<br />I got it. What he probably would have done was extract our phone number from me and called my house that night. My parents would have been seriously embarrassed over it and I would have been grounded for a month.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Can you recognize the scene above? You've seen it here before in our Busy Corner section. You're standing in the road in front of what my generation remembers as The Boston Store, facing south, up Genesee Street. But <span style="font-family: inherit;">in the above photo it's 1906. </span>You can see the tower of old City Hall in the distance. The corner near left (northeast) will someday hold a Daw's Drug Store, the southwest corner (far corner, right will hold a Rexall in my memory. In this photo on that southwest corner is one of the oldest buildings in the photos <span style="font-family: inherit;">w<span style="font-family: inherit;">e<span style="font-family: inherit;">'<span style="font-family: inherit;">ve</span></span></span></span> seen here of the Busy Corner.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The trolley's weren't very large. The tracks appear to be standard gauge, which would have been larger than necessary. But they no doubt accommodated the interurban electric trains that ran west past Syracuse and east down the valley to Albany on the tracks installed for the big steam locomotives. Standard gauge is 4 feet, 8 and 1/2 inches between the rails..The Interurbans may or may not have stopped at Union Station, I don't know. But there are plenty of photos showing them crossing through the Busy Corner, a convenient place to come from the beautifully executed Hotel Utica and catch "the electric" east to the gun factory in Ilion or the capital in Albany. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just for perspective, let's back down the hill from the where the Boston Store was in my youth to the north side of the bridge over the Erie Canal (now Oriskany Boulevard.) We'll look south up the hill. Here is the view across and around the Hump Bridge. Originally the canal bridge was flat, just as it was on other streets crossing the canal. But the new electric trolleys were so heavy the State of New York closed the Genesee Street bridge fearing collapse.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here we are standing below where Oriskany Boulevard is today, which means somewhere near Liberty Street. This photo is actually a super enlargement from a small part of a much larger photograph. Grabbing a piece of the photograph has the effect of a telephoto lens (a long lens) and all the objects become foreshortened, or jumbled into each other from foreground to rear. The grey sided building on the extreme right of the photo is the Devereux Building, the triangular shaped structure that forms Franklin Square, just below (north of) the Busy Corner. Look how close the buildings are on Columbia Street and farther up the hill to the old City Hall. They almost look as though they're all in the same block, but the distance is in fact from Liberty Street up to Pearl Street.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You'll have to do a little imagineering to see the above device on the front of a trolley. First, put in your mind the human traffic patterns apparent on Utica's downtown streets as the trolleys began to take over. Genesee Street was filled with people who were used to only each other and usually slow moving horses and wagons in the street. The Busy Corner was probably more like a park... a busy park, but it moved at a human pace.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Scoop Fender .... and there were many designs ... served to scoop up a pedestrian and safely hold him up off the tracks so the car didn't run over and further injure him or her. I have no statistics as to how successful these devices were. I suppose eventually pedestrians learned to be more careful and then traffic lights came into vogue. During my time in Utica I don't remember anyone ever being hit very often by a car, truck or bus on the Busy Corner. But although I began reading the newspaper at age 7 or so, I <span style="font-family: inherit;">started </span>with the comics.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The late Jon Hynes did a terrific job of collecting photos and newspaper articles for the thread, transcribing all of them so you don't have to squint to read the old newspaper stories.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Interior of one of the "small" UTA buses, below . I remember at age 7 or so going downtown with my mother on the bus. I looked around at all the ads up toward the ceiling and asked, "What is pee-sorry-asis (psoriasis), Mom?" "What's a hernia, Mom?" "What are "women's troubles," Mom?" What are ...." </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't remember the year I began to see these larger buses, below. Certainly by the end of the 1950's.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Next came these larger buses around 1960. The crowd down the street near the door of the second bus looks like high school students, probably from UCA.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beyond my time, but I guess today what buses are left are part of a more modern fleet of vehicles.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Above, if this isn'<span style="font-family: inherit;">t the Greyhound Station from the early 1970s, it is much like it. (I photoshopped the bus and body into the scene for a<span style="font-family: inherit;">nother story illustration.) </span></span></span></span></b><br />
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