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The Pompeia: 1901
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 9:09pm.
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Saratoga Springs, New York, circa 1901. "Atrium in the House of Pansa." Replica of an ancient Roman home at the Pompeia, a museum in the upstate New York resort town of Saratoga Springs offering "Illustrations of History and Art." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
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Before Palio
Submitted by Darma on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 4:05pm.
In the years before Palio this was the lobby of a furniture store. I think it was Saratoga Signature Interiors. I used to love to go browsing there because I got to wander through this fabulous lobby. Wish I could get in now. Maybe I'll have to go find a job at Palio.
Always a movie angle
Submitted by tterrace on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 1:12am.
At first I thought it was a set from The Loved One.
Pompeia unearthed
Submitted by Louise on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 2:26pm.
Jo Berry's history of Smith and his Pompeia reads like a T. Coraghessan Boyle novel. Such dreams of historical and personal grandeur, of a lasting legacy stretching the the ancient Romans to the modern Saratogians. . . quite moving.
It makes me doubly glad that the Gardner Museum remains intact, if one doesn't count the 1990 theft.
Beautiful
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 9:35am.
I never imagined such luxury back in those days but it obviously existed!
Not accurate
Submitted by Cracker on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:44pm.
Where's the nekkid wimmin? I lerned my histry real good from Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
An archeologist looks at the Pompeia
Submitted by David Emery on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 10:22pm.
Jo Berry did some research into this museum at Blogging Pompeii.
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