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Rochester: 1904
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 4:20am.
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Circa 1904. "State Street, Rochester, New York." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Rochester Street Lamps
Submitted by rickypix on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 12:13pm.
Take a look on the left sidewalk next to the street clock: there is an elaborate black cast-iron street lamp with two clear globes suspended from a crossbar.
Colorized!
Submitted by Flour City Post on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 2:30pm.
Fellow Rochesterians, here it is colorized.
Powers Building
Submitted by Don Keefhardt on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 5:59pm.
The Fidelity Trust building is actually the Powers Building -- see full history and current pix here:
Missing Street Lamps
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 04/11/2010 - 8:23am.
While there do not appear to be any street lamps, there are poles that appear to be suited to support lamps - and they do not seem to have any other function.
[Look closer. Those are supports for the streetcar wires. - Dave]
Sweet oblivion
Submitted by copyboy on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 7:37pm.
When I was a kid, my dentist had a sign in the office that read "Painless Dentist Upstairs" - off-putting to say the least as there was no second floor in his establishment.
But in Rochester it seems to have been true - examine the windows in the building on the upper right, where Oxide Gas - I take that to be Nitrous - is on offer.
Personal Transportation
Submitted by Nate on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 10:53am.
This must have been around the time that the bicyle craze hit Rochester.
Jaywalking
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 10:25am.
You look at these old pictures and wonder when jaywalking became illegal. Maybe in the 1930s when there were more cars in the big cities.
My Hometown!
Submitted by Rebecca on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 10:05am.
I love how different my city is in the past than what it is today. This was taken about 90 years before I was born so it was pretty amazing.
Hustle and bustle
Submitted by jimmylee42 on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 9:53am.
Love to see pictures of the mid-size and smaller cities that you have been showing. Especially, since many of them we might not get to visit in person. Read where Rochester is second only to NYC in size of economy even though it is third in population in the state. Busy looking street here in 1904.
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