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Milwaukee of Buffalo: 1910
Buffalo, New York, circa 1910. "Washburn-Crosby Co. flour mills." 8x10 inch dry ... Ship Building Company. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Buffalo NY, DPC) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/09/2017 - 1:40pm -

Buffalo, New York, circa 1910. "Washburn-Crosby Co. flour mills." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Coming in or going out?When a freighter is mentioned, horizontal hatches in the main deck come to mind. I was surprised to see what appears to be vertical hatches in the sides. I would assume to make it easier to load/ unload bagged flour? Also interesting to see the secondary steering wheel exposed to the elements. WCCOWashburn-Crosby was of course the precursor of General Mills. The name lives on, in a sense, in the TV and radio stations "WCCO" in Minnesota. Package freighterThese used to be fairly common on the Great Lakes, side loaded by longshoremen/stevedores using gangplanks/ramps. The later ones loaded palletized goods via forklifts but I don't believe any survive in their original form after railroads and trucking took over their target business. Some had their side hatches welded up when converted to other uses, like the still sailing cement carrier Stephen B. Roman. Today, some types of cargo aircraft are referred to as package freighters. This Milwaukee was built in 1902 by the Chicago Ship Building Company. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Buffalo NY, DPC)
Miami, Florida: 1908
... quite literally, all over the map -- from Deadwood to Buffalo to Whitehouse, Ohio. Many incorrect guesses for Titusville, Florida. ... mustachioed Mr. Brady can be seen here . A guess Buffalo, NY. Found a reference to a wedding in the NY Times where Mr. and ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/14/2014 - 12:58pm -

Circa 1908. Who would care to hazard a guess as to the location of this bustling metropolis? Extra points for Street View. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size. UPDATE: The guesses as to the location of "Anytown, USA" (this post's original title) were, quite literally, all over the map -- from Deadwood to Buffalo to Whitehouse, Ohio. Many incorrect guesses for Titusville, Florida. The correct answer, and original caption: "12th Street, looking east, Miami, Florida." Cigars, anyone?It looks like the main street of Ybor City near Tampa, Florida. [Close, but no cigar. - Dave] Titusville, FloridaMain Street Titusville FloridaTitusville was the home of E.L. Brady Groceries! GuessingI'm guessing it is Titusville. Miami, 1200It would appear the MacArthur highway removed this locale: View Larger Map Location is.Titusville Florida Titusville, FLTitusville. FL? A grocer with the same name had a building there: I have to admit I'm not too confident; the bank building looks wrong. Florida?Google search suggests that this may be early Miami, with E.L. Brady Groceries on right, and Frank T. Budge Hardware on the left. Miami, FLI believe this is Miami, Florida, corner of 12th Street (now Flagler Street) and Avenue D (now Miami Avenue). View Larger Map I know, I know!It's the home of the Ace Novelty Company in Walla, Walla, Washington. What do I win? Miami Map 1919This map shows Avenue D (now Miami Avenue) and 12th Street to be somewhere under the pilings for MacArthur Freeway. Too bad about the grand old house on the left a few blocks up. That shoulda been a keeper. E.L. Brady's grocery storetells me this is Titusville, Florida. Miami, FloridaThis is 12th Street, looking east, Miami, Florida. Miami?A guy named E.L. Brady was a grocer in Miami around that time. Wild GuessBrooklyn, New York IdentityWashington Avenue, Titusville Florida. Possible answerI cheated and Googled "E.L. Brady" grocery store" and got Titusville, FL. Did I win? MiamiSome research indicates Flagler Street and Miami Avenue , although street view is hard to recognize. MiamiAvenue D (now Miami Ave.) and 12th Street, Miami, Fl. It looks like it's beneath the MacAurther Causeway now. Titusville FLA.Main Street? Is it KC?It could be my eyes playing tricks, but I think I see a reference to Kansas City in the banner stretched across the street. I'm guessingTitusville, Florida? Taking a guessI think the location is somewhere in Titusville, Florida. Titusville, Florida?Okay, here's my detective work. I Googled C.W. Schmid's Restaurant to no avail, but then I saw the E. L. Brady and Co. Groceries sign and tried that. It took me to this site, which mentions a store by the same name in Titusville. Am I right? Brady Grocery, Titusville, Florida407 S. Washington Avenue, Titusville, Florida "Titusville's first grocery store, L.A. Brady Grocery Store, was built in 1880. This and other buildings immediately south were occupied by Jackson Garage, Coca Cola, Bryan-Conway Realtors, Grower's Supply and Sears. The building was renovated and reopened in 1988 as the Granada Building, housing several government agencies and businesses including Gulf Atlantic Title, Cathedral Holdings and Loys Ward Surveying and Engineering." I had not a clueBut I thought maybe somewhere up north because of the awnings, which I thought might protect from the harsh winter snow. Duh! I could not have been more wrong. Turns out they were protection from the hot sun of Florida! Having lived there for a tortuous 6 months, I should have known better. I'm guessingTitusville,FL. Jacksonville, Florida.It has to be Jax. There's crap in the street and it looks like a slum. Nothing has changed. My guess is MiamiSearching for E.L. Brady's lead me to this conclusion based on this page, and this quote: On March 3, Flagler dispatched John Sewell and twelve of his best black workers from Palm Beach to Miami to begin work on the townsite. They began by grading the site of Flagler’s hotel. (72) By late March the railroad extension had reached a point just below Arch Creek near today’s Northeast 135th Street. (73) Increasing numbers of people were coming to Miami. In order to provide them with a place to stay, Harrington and Tyler leased the Miami Hotel from Julia Tuttle — even before it had a roof over it. Located on today’s South Miami Avenue near the river, the hotel contained a dining room on the first floor and rooms on the second which only could be reached by ladder, since a staircase had not been completed. (74) A former steamboat, the Rockledge, was converted into a floating hotel by E. E. Vail, towed to Miami and docked at the foot of Avenue D (today’s Miami Avenue). (75) Several new businesses had just opened or were about to open as March drew to a close. These included Frank Budge’s hardware store, Frank Duren’s meat market and green grocery, E.L. Brady’s grocery store, and the Lummus Brothers’ general store; additionally, a drug store, candy shop and pool room looked out over Avenue D. The lumber to build the Bank of Bay Biscayne building was being hauled to its lot next to the Brady grocery store. (76) Survey saysI believe this is Brooklyn, NY. I took the easy way out and just searched for 1200 Avenue O from the side of the grocers wagon Joe from LI, NY View Larger Map Miami?A Google search for "e l brady" grocer 1200 ave d turned up this link. On page 69 of which is mentioned a small grocery in Miami, run by an E.L. Brady. A guessIs it Titusville Florida? It's downtown MiamiThe Historical Museum of Southern Florida puts E.L. Brady Grocers, 1200 Avenue D, in Miami at that point. Avenue D is now South Miami Avenue. I'm not familiar with the area to know if the street numbering was retained. Schmids Furniture, Whitehouse, OhioWhitehouse, Ohio? There is a reference to a "Schmids Funiture" still there in 1937 when this was written. An updated guessIs it Miami, Florida? MaybeTitusville, Florida? TitusvilleStill working on the street view. Miami, Florida?Miami, FL, 12th Street. Anytown USA = Whitehouse OHIf you google "Schmid's Furniture" and have google uncorrect it, there's a PDF link to a report on Early Whitehouse History. In there is a reference to Schmid's Furniture on Toledo Ave (which looks very different today in Street View) Some leadsA search for E.L. Brady's grocery brought up a couple things. This page mentions the cart part of the business, which would place this in Titusville, Florida, to the East of Orlando. This link contains a picture of an historical marker in Titusville, which mentions that the building where Brady's grocery would have been housed in 1908 still stands, and is to the right of the sign. I'm pretty sure I've located the sign in street view here: View Larger Map The gardening has changed from the pictures, but the background matches up perfectly. The only step from here would be to go a few ticks over on street view and turn around, but this is where I stopped. Either I have the wrong spot or the view has changed considerably. Found it?I found reference to E.L. Brady's grocery store which leads me to believe this is Titusville, Florida. The building was home to E.L. Brady's grocery store. He first established his business in LaGrange, but moved to Titusville in 1886, occupying a wooden building at Main Street. The 1895 fire destroyed his store and many wood structures in the commercial district. Brady rebuilt his grocery in this building Is this it?Not much left from 1908. View Larger Map No DoubtThat's downtown Anytown. (Read the heading.) Titusville?Looks like E.L. Brady's Grocery store was located in Titusville, FL. That could be the site of this shot, perhaps... Fort Pierce / St. Lucie, FLMan, is this a depressing indicator of change. View Larger Map ETA: Darn, not correct! Miami, Fl ?http://www.hmsf.org/collections-south-florida-birth-city.htm On March 3, Flagler dispatched John Sewell and twelve of his best black workers from Palm Beach to Miami to begin work on the townsite. They began by grading the site of Flagler’s hotel. (72) By late March the railroad extension had reached a point just below Arch Creek near today’s Northeast 135th Street. (73) Increasing numbers of people were coming to Miami. In order to provide them with a place to stay, Harrington and Tyler leased the Miami Hotel from Julia Tuttle — even before it had a roof over it. Located on today’s South Miami Avenue near the river, the hotel contained a dining room on the first floor and rooms on the second which only could be reached by ladder, since a staircase had not been completed. (74) A former steamboat, the Rockledge, was converted into a floating hotel by E. E. Vail, towed to Miami and docked at the foot of Avenue D (today’s Miami Avenue). (75) Several new businesses had just opened or were about to open as March drew to a close. These included Frank Budge’s hardware store, Frank Duren’s meat market and green grocery, E. L. Brady’s grocery store, and the Lummus Brothers’ general store; additionally, a drug store, candy shop and pool room looked out over Avenue D. The lumber to build the Bank of Bay Biscayne building was being hauled to its lot next to the Brady grocery store. (76) Anytown, USA is Titusville, FloridaAnytown, USA is Titusville, Florida "E.L. Brady and Brother Grocery Store, a well established business located on Washington Ave. in downtown Titusville, put into use a delivery wagon in order to provide better customer service." Judging by the number of wiresI would say: NYC. Miami, Florida ...perhaps the corner of D (now Miami) and 12th Avenues? After Titusville, FLAfter Titusville FL Mr. E.L. Brady, Grocer, moved to Miami and opened up his grocery store on Avenue D. Not sure what that is called now though. Titusville Fla. Probably S. Washington St. That was funThat was fun. I was one of the Titusville people. Got it wrong. Oh well. How about doing something like this once a week? Not a palm tree in sightThe grocer E.L. Brady originated in Lagrange, Florida and relocated to Titusville, Florida in 1886. He would eventually became the first grocer in Miami, Florida at Ave. D and 12th Street. Today, this intersection would be Flagler Street and Miami Avenue. An interesting 1901 photo of the mustachioed Mr. Brady can be seen here. A guessBuffalo, NY. Found a reference to a wedding in the NY Times where Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Brady from Buffalo attended. Brooklyn?Probably wrong, but I'll hazard a guess at Brooklyn; 1200 Avenue D is near the intersection of Flatbush, which would make that little side street on the left E. 23rd St. View Larger Map Is it Louisville?I think this may be Avenue D in Louisville, KY. Miamihad an Avenue D in 1908 and a grocer called E.L. Brady. Welcome to MiamiLooks like it's somewhere on what is now South Miami Avenue - possibly where the Route 970 overpass is now located? FoundView Larger Map Stop 17 on the historical walking tour. Historical marker north of the building. Hazarding a GuessI'm going to guess we're looking at Old Miam, South Miami Avei? Just a GuessTitusville or Miami, FL. Titusville, FLJust a guess. Titusville, FLI think I see an atlas rocket taking off from the cape in the background. Florida townI believe this is Titusville Florida. LocationThis was taken in Miami, Florida at the corner of what is now Flagler Street and Miami Avenue. Everything in the original photo is gone, even the street names! Flagler and Miami used to be 12th Street and Avenue D, respectively. Titusville, FloridaHome of E.L. Brady, Grocer. Doesn't Look Like Florida to MeMy guess is Titusville FL, because that is the only place I can find a E L Brady that is a Grocer on the 1900 and 1910 census. Am I correct? Miami, FloridaThat's my guess. Deadwood, SD?Shot in the dark guess. Just seems very western. Gag! I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Embarrassing since I was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, and my grandparents + my mother moved to South Florida in 1917. Miami, FL?Possibly Miami, as per an obituary for E.L. Brady (pulled from the "E.L. Brady and Co" store on the right, beyond the real estate agent). That would make this shot somewhere in the vicinity of Flagler and Miami Avenue. Miami FloridaAvenue D and 12th Street. Now Flagler Street and Miami Avenue. See if I can get a Street View. Definitely MiamiFrom "Early Miami Through the Eyes of Youth" by William M. Straight, M.D., p.69: "How did you get your dairy products and your groceries? Well, there were two grocery stores, little things. I think the first one was operated by a Mr. Brady, E. L. Brady, who moved here from Titusville." On Page 63, there's mention that Avenue D is now Miami Avenue. 1200 Miami Avenue: View Larger Map MiamiE. L. Brady opened one of the first grocery stores in Miami, Florida. In 1908, the Bank of Bay Biscayne was located next door. I think this is the intersection of Miami Avenue and Flagler Street. Let's see nowThere's a tag that says "Florida," but there's also a tag that says "Detroit." Follow upFollow up to my earlier comment about E.L. Brady; according to the same obituary, E.L. Brady was an earlier settler of Titusville, FL, and started a grocery there, too. So this could be Titusville, FL. E. L. Brady Co. GrocersAt the corner of Avenue D and 12th Street in Miami: Titusville, FLLooks like it's in Titusville, FL, though I'm having trouble pinning down the exact location for a Google Street View. Halcyon HometownFinally, a shot of MY hometown, Miami! When Miami scrapped its old street naming system in 1921, they threw out the house numbers along with the street names for the present day quadrant system. The shot was taken on today's Flagler Street (formerly 12th Street) looking east at Miami Avenue (formerly Avenue D). The lions on the left guarded the Bank of Bay Biscayne, which stood on the northwest corner of Miami Avenue and West Flagler Street. The Halcyon Hotel, with its distinctive turrets, stood at East Flagler and 2nd Avenue (formerly 12th Street and Avenue B). It can be seen down the street on the left side. It'd be great to see some more Old Miami shots! Thanks, Shorpy! Let me guessI'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that this city is in Florida? I'm thinkingTitusville, FL Thank you, Mr. Brady the grocerIt's Miami. HOW COULD YOU TELL????I enlarged the photo, combed all the print details, how can you possibly recognize it a hundred years later????!! (Thanks for the fun though.) Bay Biscayne BankAccording to the Sanford Fire Map of 1899, the Bay Biscayne Bank was around the corner on D Avenue, on the NE side of the intersection, up the block on D Avenue slightly. Of course, it may have moved across the street to the NW corner by 1909. In the 1909 edition of Florida East Coast Homeseeker, it ran an ad noting it had moved to new digs in the Fort Dallas Bank Building; the one with the columns on the immediate left, and just west of the bank building, would have been the Biscayne Hotel in 1899. The weather bureau opened a station in the Bank of Bay Biscayne Building at that same location in 1911, so by then the building seems to have dropped the Fort Dallas appellation. The picture of the bank building provided by the NOAA website must be looking NW at it catercorner across the intersection. (The Gallery, DPC, Florida, Miami)
Eastern Elevator: 1900
Circa 1900. "Eastern elevator, Buffalo, New York." Ship: The Frank L. Vance . 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... for Milwaukee; had put into Ludington for weather." Buffalo Mills and Elevators This is a nice site about the mills and elevators in Buffalo. Many of the old elevators are still standing although most are ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/10/2012 - 12:21am -

Circa 1900. "Eastern elevator, Buffalo, New York." Ship: The Frank L. Vance. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Frank L. Vance: 1887-1910Built in 1887 by W.H. Radcliffe at Cleveland. Wood hulled propeller driven vessel 257 feet long, displacing 1733 tons, load capacity of 1444 tons. Removed from service with the following notation: "Burned to water's edge twenty-five miles southwest of Ludington, Michigan, on October 4, 1910; crew rescued by Maggie Marshall. Vessel bound from a Lake Erie port with coal for Milwaukee; had put into Ludington for weather." Buffalo Mills and ElevatorsThis is a nice site about the mills and elevators in Buffalo. Many of the old elevators are still standing although most are abandoned. http://www.buffalohistoryworks.com/grain/ Cargill SI wonder if this is the same grain elevator that is labeled "Cargill S" and still stands abandoned today? It's a great place to ride your bike to and explore. What GivesWith the giant arms that seem to extend from the Eastern building? Something really foreboding about the whole picture so dark and cold looking. Thanks! Photo date and mapI think this photo is a little after 1900. A map from 1894 shows the layout of these elevators along the south side of the Buffalo River; the Eastern Elevator, linseed works, and Marine Elevator. Another photo posted here, also dated 1900, no doubt shows the demolition of the old Eastern Elevator. This must be depicting a new Eastern Elevator constructed on the same site. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Buffalo NY, DPC)
Lafayette Square: 1905
Buffalo, New York, circa 1905. "Lafayette Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... masonry gem on the far side of the Square? [The Buffalo Public Library, dedicated 1887, demolished 1963.] Shame What ... of automobiles yet but a year later, on July 4 1906, Buffalo would record its first instance of a pedestrian being fatally mowed ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:42am -

Buffalo, New York, circa 1905. "Lafayette Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. You can't park that here! Parking next to a fire hydrant is illegal! The Lafayette Hotelin the center of the shot in currently undergoing a $35M-$40M renovation that will result in one and two bedroom apartments and up to 50 hotel rooms, as well as several businesses on the ground floor. The exterior and much of the interior are being painstakingly restored to their original appearance. Target date for completion is May 1. Three dimensionalThe depth of field and scope of the lens have created one of the coolest looking images yet seen. Great job of scanning to maintain the effect. I feel like I'm looking out a window onto the actual scene. Your policy has expiredI had no intention of commenting until something struck me as humorous in the building on the right hand side. I would bet that the New York "Life Insurance" company did not appreciate one of their employees perching himself in an open fourth story window. Plus 107and the bystanders are less ghostly and considerably less well-dressed. View Larger Map Good to seeThat at least two of the major buildings has survived. What was that glorious masonry gem on the far side of the Square? [The Buffalo Public Library, dedicated 1887, demolished 1963.] Shame What Is It?OK, I have to ask this. Sure, I have only been on Shorpy about 3 months, but have traveled all over Europe and seen these http://www.urinal.net/pissar/ But I have never seen them in old photos such as here. Is this a pissoir? Something for the horse buggies? Fresh water? Something for the drivers to "dispose" certain things of? [Whatever it is, it has an electrical connection to the streetcar grid. - Dave] *MrK replying* I see that Dave, thanks! Missed it the first time. Also, looking at the shadow, the object looks like it does not have the same dimentions all around. Looks wide, but not deep according to the shadow. The photo here on the page is a little too low res to discern where the wire goes or what it is connected to (Dave can you help?). I see what appears to be a fire call box on the furthest trolley pole in that block corner. I will ask a few trolley experts here about it and hope to report back :) Not a lot of automobiles yetbut a year later, on July 4 1906, Buffalo would record its first instance of a pedestrian being fatally mowed down by one of the infernal machines when Henry A Ward, founder of Ward's Natural Science Establishment (and taxidermist of Jumbo the Elephant mount fame) succumbed. re: The TardisIf it is connected by wire, then so are the horses or the coachman standing close by. No, I think the wire simply is passing above, to support another segment of the trolley cable running overhead. [You're looking at the wrong wire. - Dave] Formerly Courthouse SquareThis location was renamed to commemorate the Marquis de LaFayette's visit to Buffalo in 1825, the same year the Erie Canal was completed. This location is just a few blocks north of the Ellicott Square Building, designed by Daniel Burnham and opened in 1896 (the world's largest office building at the time). The Ellicott Square Building was featured on Shorpy a while back: https://www.shorpy.com/node/10750 Big GunThe large cannon at left center is a Civil War-era Parrott Rifle, named after its designer Robert Parker Parrott. These were cutting edge when introduced in 1861 and came in variety of sizes. Both the Army and Navy used them up through the early 1890s. This particular Parrott seems to be a big one, possibly a 200 pounder, meaning it could fire a pointed shell weighing 200 pounds. Military technology moved swiftly in the late 19th century and Parrotts were phased out as more modern artillery came into use. Many obsolete Parrotts and other Civil War cannon ended up as martial ornaments in city parks and military cemeteries. The scrap drives of World War II took a huge toll on ornamental cannon. Wonder if this Parrott survived? The Tardis-identity revealedThis is a police call box. Very common at the time. I've attached a picture of a rather more ornate one, but of the same general layout. I think the wire DOES go to the box, for the telephone inside. The Tardis-identity revealedVery nice find. Makes sense now, following that wire to the fire pull box with this police call box makes sense to bundle the wires and be routed back to the same place. Darn that Chameleon circuit, looks like it will never get fixed! KleinhansI wonder if Kleinhans wouldn't sell their building, so they built the U-shaped New York Life building around it? [That's an integral part of the Brisbane Building, constructed 1894-1896. The previous structure, The Arcade, was completely destroyed by fire in 1893.] Buffalo Tardis: real identity revealedNot a call box, although many had telephone connections in a box OUTSIDE this "booth". These were used by walking patrolmen as one-man jails. A rowdy would be stuffed inside, locked up, and the paddy wagon sent for. They were at various intersections all over Buffalo, until about 1940. See photo and caption here. Hotel LafayetteHere's an update to the previous post about the rehabilitation of the Hotel Lafayette. I appreciate that their original 1905 sign indicated that the hotel is "Fire Proof". Sleep in safety! As a side note, the hotel was designed an built by the first accredited female architect in the AIA, Louise Blanchard Bethune. QuestionsTwo questions. Where is the smoke coming from? It looks to be a warm summer day, so it wouldn't be from furnaces in the buildings. It seems to originate on top of the building between the Hotel LaFayette, and Kleinhans. Or, is it some kind of smudge on the photo plate? [Buffalo was an industrial center with many factories as well as coal-fired locomotives and steamships. - Dave] And, did no one ride horses in the city? Or, did no one ride horses downtown? I don't see any riders in any downtown photos, and I don't see where you'd tie one up. All I see s carriages and cars and streetcars. [City folk didn't ride horses like they were bicycles. They took the streetcar or sidewalk (or biked) to get where they were going. - Dave] If you go to Buffalo, do check out the renovated Hotel LaFayette. Its gorgeous! (The Gallery, Buffalo NY, DPC, Horses, Streetcars)
Elephants in Buffalo
... It looks like we had some not too unusual late snow in Buffalo. View full size. On Broadway! This is a view down Broadway ... left with the sign is the old Broadway Auditorium, now the Buffalo Public Works Department garage. A history of the Broadway ... 
 
Posted by BflJake - 01/04/2012 - 11:36am -

This photo was probably taken in the mid to late 1930s. Circus animals were walked through the streets to get to the arena from their train. From the taller buildings in the background it looks like we are looking up Broadway toward downtown. We can see the Liberty Bank building with a small Statue of Liberty visible on its top and I believe the Rand building (to the right). Both buildings are still there. Just to the left of the elephants there is a sign on the building that says "Circus April 10-?." The second date is blocked. This is obviously where they are headed. It looks like we had some not too unusual late snow in Buffalo. View full size. On Broadway!This is a view down Broadway from Pine St. The building on the left with the sign is the old Broadway Auditorium, now the Buffalo Public Works Department garage. A history of the Broadway Auditorium as a hockey venue is here. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Power Plucker: 1941
... wouldn't be on the menu at my house ever again. No buffalo wings Pennsylvannia Proud, you'd have my best friend in complete ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/15/2022 - 10:25pm -

August 1941. "Electric plucker removes every pin feather without a tear in the skin. 500 to 1,000 birds could be plucked in a day by this method. Enterprise co-op cannery. Coffee County, Enterprise, Alabama." Photo by John Collier, Farm Security Administration. View full size. I'd say that's more than a feather pluckerI wonder if the galvanized can (lower right) is used for storing the occasional plucked arm from a distracted worker? Not!If this job is anything beyond than your very first minimum wage job, you're outlook is not good at all. "All signs point to No." "Without a tear in the skin"Whose skin? I bet they were hustling along to finish plucking before the OSHA inspectors showed up. I can only imagine that job.Chicken wouldn't be on the menu at my house ever again. No buffalo wingsPennsylvannia Proud, you'd have my best friend in complete agreement with you. Upon getting out of the army during the late sixties, he found a job preparing fowl for market in the San Francisco Bay Area. When his job application for work at a GM plant came through a couple of months later he jumped ship without any notice. And, to his dying day he'd never eat a piece of chicken again. Couldn't even stand in the same room with a raw one. I miss him. If I had been his younger brotherI would have taken him to school for show-and-tell day. And because boys are gross, I would have later told everyone the chickens were still alive. Cotton picking finger licking chicken pluckerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgD1o9I8hw0 see the part at 2:06... Better not make a mistake! Mr. ChickenThat guy with the hat is, I suppose, some kind of supervisor. He's the essence of scowling authority and intimidation. I suppose his job at this chicken-plucking outfit was the height of his career. (And what is that in his shirt pocket? A deck of cards?) I hope the poor kid went on to become governor or something. Hen SemataryIf Stephen King ever saw this, he'd write "The Haunted Chicken Plucker." Looks deadly. I wouldn't go near it for all the money in the world. My grandmother plucked chickens by hand Born in Germany in 1895, she came to USA around 1900. Around 1910 or so she had a job plucking chickens. She was paid 5 cents per bird. (The Gallery, Agriculture, John Collier)
Winter stroll in Buffalo c. 1915
... with daughter Johanna and son Hermann (in stroller) in Buffalo, N.Y., c. 1915. Their attire seems rather upscale. The family was ... 
 
Posted by bhappel - 03/17/2018 - 10:07am -

Hedwig Happel out for winter walk with daughter Johanna and son Hermann (in stroller) in Buffalo, N.Y., c. 1915. Their attire seems rather upscale. The family was never wealthy, but mechanical engineers at that time were in demand and paid well (similar to physicians today). One stroller wheel appears to have a chip out of the rubber. My online research leads me to believe that the building in the background is the Central Presbyterian Church. The church building was constructed in 1910 and sits at the corner of Main Street and Jewett Parkway. [Edit 12/10 - Looking at Google maps I realized that I uploaded the image reversed. I flipped the image and re-uploaded it. The correct orientation has the stroller on the left side of the image.] [I've corrected it now. - tterrace] View full size. correct orientationI Believe Your original orientation was correct.The view is from the Jewett Ave. side of the building looking towards Main St. R J Today & original You're correct about being correctThanks for confirming that I had figured out the correct orientation. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Buffalo Christmas: 1917
Christmas in Buffalo, NY. 1917. The year is a guesstimate based on the birth dates of ... 
 
Posted by bhappel - 01/14/2019 - 1:31pm -

Christmas in Buffalo, NY. 1917. The year is a guesstimate based on the birth dates of Hermann (1912, on the left) and Johanna (1911). They are enjoying their new toys under the tree lit with actual candles. In additional to the traditional train by the tree I find most fascinating the horse-drawn milk delivery wagon. This image doesn't show it well but the horse is mounted on a wheeled platform for smoother playtime. This image was digitized from a 4x5 glass negative. Tinkertoys?The stick-like structure in the center of the train track looks like an early version of the Tinkertoy. The sticks seem to be connected by star-like disks. I wasn't aware such a toy existed then, yet, there it is. Tinkertoys?Tinkertoys were introduced in 1914, and the "star-like" discs do conform to the hole patterns of a Tinkertoy spool hub. But as far as I know Tinkertoys have always used a thicker spool hub. Perhaps this an imitation toy? Their father (and later Hermann also) was a mechanical engineer so finding this type of toy in their house is no surprise. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Buffalo Bank (Colorized): 1908
Colorized version of " Buffalo Bank: 1908 ." (Colorized Photos) ... 
 
Posted by Billfielding - 01/21/2011 - 10:31am -

Colorized version of "Buffalo Bank: 1908." (Colorized Photos)
Mourning McKinley: 1901
... McKinley's shoes. He has a man of destiny behind him." Buffalo / Dallas I was 7 when President Kennedy died. I never hear mention ... alive when McKinley died have similar associations with Buffalo, where he was assassinated? TR Elsewhere in the city, "that ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/03/2021 - 10:29am -

Washington, D.C. "View from Randall School of H Street S.W., between Half & First Streets, in 1901 showing coal yard and old homes near railroad station. Houses have McKinley memorials. Portrait of President William McKinley draped in black is visible on the house on the left. A flag is at half mast on the right." Along with at least two other McKinley portraits. 8x10 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size. Oddly lonelySuch a stark contrast exists between the pretty house with delicate embellishments casting lacy shadows -- the two older folk porch sitting on an early autumn afternoon; the younger woman dressed like an Old West frontier female standing by, arms crossed; the hatted child playing at the edge of the sidewalk -- and the rest of the landscape, which appears suspended in a dusty, lonely languor. McKinley's destinyThe assassination of William McKinley made Theodore Roosevelt President at the age of 42. When TR became Vice President earlier that same year, his friend Charles G. Washburn remarked: "I would not like to be in McKinley's shoes. He has a man of destiny behind him." Buffalo / DallasI was 7 when President Kennedy died. I never hear mention of Dallas without thinking of his assassination. I've always wondered, did people who were alive when McKinley died have similar associations with Buffalo, where he was assassinated? TRElsewhere in the city, "that damned cowboy" Teddy Roosevelt has just become the new President. All the houses with TepeesI had always assumed that the little turrets, or cones on the corners of houses were purely for appearance. I wonder whether they also played a structural purpose since more than two dozen of them are visible in the picture. McKinley's DeathWhen he died President McKinley was widely and deeply mourned. The trappings of official and Victorian mourning with black crape and formal mourning attire were everywhere. But so also were touching demonstrations by simple people throughout the country where public assemblies and special services in churches were held. The route of his funeral train was lined by ordinary working class people standing shoulder to shoulder with the well off and powerful. People placed coins and flowers on the train tracks and kept the flattened remnants as mementos. At almost every stage of the journey local bands appeared playing the hymn "Nearer My God to Thee," a popular hymn and Mr. McKinley's favorite long before it became associated with the Titanic disaster. McKinley was a deeply religious man and according to popular legend (disputed) his last words were from the opening verse of the hymn. Here is a link to some rare film footage of the official ceremonies and funeral procession. https://youtu.be/gTQrpsZ3tQA LOCIs that the Library of Congress in the distance on the left? Ballast = coalI believe we're looking at a coal dealer. Note that some of the bays are divided so the coal can be sorted as to lump size and possibly some choice Anthracite in there. Seems to be a small cart-ramp extending over yet more bays below. Displaying FlagsFlags are flown at half mast aboard ships. On land they are flown at half staff. Jefferson BuildingThe partially visible large building in the upper left of the image is southeast corner of the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, which was completed four years before the image was taken. Lehigh ValleyThe elevated rail arrangement and piles of ballast in the center-right of the photo remind me of all the comments and speculations last week with regard to Earth Movers: 1901. Building IDI'm curious about the complex of large white (at least in this picture) buildings in the upper right. Can we identify that? It's on the MapGoats of Venus has indeed got it right. [As does the photo caption, which calls it a coal yard - Dave] A look at a 1904 Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows this to be the Allegheny Coal Co. The map clearly shows the hard and soft coal trestles as well as the other structures on the site. Even more fascinating, it matches up perfectly with the houses in the image (facing H Street) and accurately shows their construction, with the pink color representing brick and yellow being frame. Even the 2-story frame porch on the house in the foreground is shown on the map as well as the split brick and frame construction of the first house around the corner on Half Street. Building ID FoundAfter much sleuthing, including trying to get the right perspective using old DC maps, I can positively identify the large white building in the upper right as being the “old” Providence Hospital located at the time at 2nd & D Streets SE on Capitol Hill (see the image in the plaque below). I’m a bit embarrassed it took me so long to figure it out--I was born there in 1950. Dating to the Civil War era, the hospital moved in the 1950s to larger quarters in Northeast. The buildings in the photo were razed and site became Providence Park, which still exists today. Incidentally, a number of previously published Shorpy photos were taken around the same time frame from the roof of the hospital, including several pointed back in the general direction of the Randall School—the reverse of where we’re looking from in the photo above. The fall of a sparrowThe prominent group of structures at 2 o'clock is the old Providence Hospital complex. It's a park now. (The Gallery, D.C., D.C. Street Survey, Railroads)
Regular Dinner: 1936
... or they went a lot slower to see and read those signs. Buffalo Rock, my favorite! Buffalo Rock was a brand of ginger ale that was popular in the northern part of ... 
 
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1936. "Cafe -- Alabama" is all it says here. 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. More random observationsNo date is given but this is summer. Having spent most of my life in the south, I recognize those clouds, and can practically feel the heat and humidity sitting here at my desk in winter. At first glance this is a lonely-appearing photo, but then closer observation reveals a worker at the counter, diners at the window table, and even the photographer (or assistant) in a selfie. The spiderweb motif is an odd choice. Not sure how that would attract diners. Probably has some specific meaning to the owners. The front door will not open all the way due to the slope of the sidewalk. Maybe 90 degrees max. Probably reduced the lifespan of the door with customers trying to shove it past its limit. Nice shiny new bicycle! OK I'm done. D-time in T-town ?? This is what, our third offering of no-nonsense dining? The '30s must have been tough on people seeking mealtime excitement. The cafe was located at the top of the Hill on the corner of 4th Street - that's the L&N station glimpsed off to the side (see below) - being replaced by the Temerson Building a few years after this picture. The latter currently houses a restaurant: the cycle is complete ! BBT/CPBefore Bucket Trucks/Cherry Pickers The condition of the surface of the utility pole indicates many scalings with traditional lineman's climbing spikes/spurs. I can remember when a lot of poles looked like this, not any more. Among the last people using them these days are big tree loggers in remote locations. Most of our local arborists seem to have switched to using aerial platform lifts (and more than doubled their prices to pay for the things). River Hill, TuscaloosaRiver Hill is an area of downtown Tuscaloosa. In a 1945 photo caption from the Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum, it is described as the north end of Greensboro Avenue, south of the Black Warrior River and north of Broad Street (now University Boulevard). US 43 and Alabama state road 13, identified in Evans's photo, carried traffic north over the river. (That stretch is now named Lurleen Wallace Blvd.) The area is now the center of Tuscaloosa's Civil Rights History Trail. Knob and TubeStill have that kind of wiring inside a few of my outbuildings (considered okay by my insurance broker). Exteriorly I've removed all of it because of degraded insulation as a result of decades of exposure to the elements. Pre GPSPeople's eyesight must've been a lot better back then or they went a lot slower to see and read those signs. Buffalo Rock, my favorite!Buffalo Rock was a brand of ginger ale that was popular in the northern part of Alabama in the 1940s. We lived in LA (lower Alabama) so when we were in Birmingham, we would swap a case of empties and bring a case home. Those didn't last long! There was so much ginger in it that it burned your nose! Tuscaloosa: 1936's US 43 and Today's US 43Thank you, GlenJay for the helpful information about River Hill, which is about one mile from my home in Northport, Alabama--across the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa! It's led me on a search to pin down the location of this great Walker Evans photo, which heretofore I did not realize was shot in Tuscaloosa. Incidentally, this spot is not far from where yesterday's Shorpy pic ("Tuscaloosa Wrecking: 1936") was located. One small correction to GlenJay's useful comments: In 1936, the road that is now Greensboro Ave (formerly 24th Avenue) led down River Hill to a lift bridge across the River. Thus, US 43 followed that route at the time of the photo. When the Hugh Thomas Bridge replaced the lift bridge in 1974, however, US 43 was shifted a few blocks to the west and became Lurleen Wallace Blvd (formerly 25th and 26th Avenues) in order to feed into the new bridge more efficiently. I've got some pals working on identifying the photo location and will update my comment if I come up with anything. (The Gallery, Bicycles, Eateries & Bars, Small Towns, Walker Evans)
Buffalo Pup (Colorized): 1900
Colorized version of this Shorpy old photo . View full size. (Colorized Photos) ... 
 
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Colorized version of this Shorpy old photo. View full size. (Colorized Photos)
Hydra: 1901
Buffalo, New York, circa 1901. "Unloading ore from whaleback carrier." 8x10 ... somehow, I find it all so wonderful. Thanks so much. Buffalo Main Lighthouse The lighthouse in the background is Buffalo Main dating to 1819. The man behind the curtain Where is the ... 
 
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Buffalo, New York, circa 1901. "Unloading ore from whaleback carrier." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. The Limit of WoodOne can easily understand how steel construction for such machines soon supplanted wood. Notice, that despite the hefty staybolts, and cross bracing, the wood beams are seriously cracking under the strain. Hard workPresumably, there were men down in the hold shovelling coal into the buckets. Nasty job. Six-Rig Excelsior HoistWhat a marvelous steampunk contraption: a train of giant rolling cranes made from timbers and cast-iron gears. I can't at all understand how they are powered. It's from an earlier generation of technology compared to the steel Brown Fast Plants pictured in A Chorus Line: 1905. Blue Book of American Shipping, 1901 Railway Terminal Facilities for Ore and Coal Traffic on Lake Erie Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co., (Docks in Erie Basin), Six-rig Excelsior hoist, built by Excelsior Iron Works Co., Cleveland; capable of unloading 2,000 gross tons in 10 hours. All rigs can be worked on vessels having hatches of 24-ft. centers or less. No Storage Room. Interesting Ship DesignWhalebacks were Great Lakes freighters constructed between 1887 and 1898. Only a total of 43 were made. When loaded, they rode low in the water, with only the curved top showing above the waterline. The last whaleback was retired in 1969 after a long and varied career. It has been docked as a museum ship on display in Superior, Wisconsin, since 1971. Car GenderThose little ore cars had names--I've seen them referred to as ore jimmies and ore jennies in various railroad publications. Whatever their gender, the name is always lower-case. These cars carried just as much weight as a larger coal hopper, but are smaller because the equivalent weight of iron ore takes up less room due to its density. LighthouseThat's also one very unique and beautiful lighthouse in the background. Still, they are a wonder to meNo, so many times I can not gather what they do exactly or understand how they work. But, somehow, I find it all so wonderful. Thanks so much. Buffalo Main LighthouseThe lighthouse in the background is Buffalo Main dating to 1819. The man behind the curtain Where is the operator? In the tower at the far end of Hydra? I would love to see more pictures of this hoist if you can find them. "AIR BRA"An ad for an air bra avant-la-lettre? Could have been an ore jennie ;-) After all I better vote for a "railway air brake:" All wood and amazing.I'm struck by something this large relying on timbers for strength. It is easy to imagine much creaking and groaning during operation. More Bang for your PhotoWow, this shot has quite the juxtaposition of the historic! The rail cars are at the beginning of air brakes and the MacDougal whaleback steamer is at the end of their production. The unloading machines days are numbered (frankly, I’ve never seen this type) however the Buffalo light house that was built in 1833 is still there. [The "beginning of air brakes" was 30 years before this picture was taken. - Dave] Lighthouse! The lighthouse survives! It's surrounded by a Coast Guard base, soon to become a public park. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Buffalo NY, DPC, Railroads)
The Springwater Bunch: 1910
... shock the elders seen in this picture. Tolstoy in Buffalo It looks like the cast of characters of a classic Russian novel. ... 
 
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This image was found in a stash of circa 1910 glass negatives from Floyd Ingraham, who lived in Springwater, New York. I know nothing about who's here or why they were gathered in someone's parlor, but I love its Norman Rockwell vibe. Every face looks like one of his subjects. Scanned from a 4x5 inch glass plate. View full size. Probably a family gatheringAt least some of these people are related to each other, most notably the Father/Son pair 3rd & 4th from the right, top row. The 3rd & 4th from the left (top row) look like twin brothers. 1910 Minus 10Our crowd is wearing clothes that date from 1898 to 1902. This is after ladies stopped wearing giant leg-o'-mutton sleeves but before frilly bodices became passé and the droopy Edwardian look took over. What faces!Every face of the human condition is exemplified right here -- amazing!! Summertime version... of the Office Xmas party? Well, nothing will ever challenge that pic but this one holds a lot of potential for close inspection and conjecture. Amazing Group PhotographA great bunch of mugs, all seemingly informal poses, wonder what was going on here, in a photo that is so unusual for the times. Staring contest?I bet there's story about why the two women in the middle right are facing each other. An historic momentThis must be when the transition from serious wooden expressions to saying 'cheese' and smiling began. Behave Yourselves!This started out to be a standard 1910 formal photograph with everyone posed so no one is hidden … then it became unexpectedly informal. I am fascinated with the two women who chose to stare at each other rather than the camera. And the man at top-right wearing a hat in someone's parlor -- unthinkable! In this link https://www.hemlockandcanadicelakes.com/hcl_community_springwater_photo_... there is a photo of a 1906 town picnic in Springwater. Notice how posed everyone is? Click on it to view at full size. I looked and did not recognize anyone in both this and that photograph, but I could be wrong. "Oh-vo-de-oh-do" times are a comin'Get ready young girls. You grew up seeing your mothers and aunts in layered dresses that covered up everything from their throats to their ankles. When the 1920s come along you'll be doing the Charleston in skimpy flapper outfits that will reveal much more and will surely shock the elders seen in this picture. Tolstoy in BuffaloIt looks like the cast of characters of a classic Russian novel. The little girlFourth from the left front with hair ribbons and plaid dress would have looked perfectly at home in a 1950's photograph. Smart photographerSomeone was smart enough to put the prettiest girl front and center. A haberdasher's dreamIt's a veritable J.C. Penney catalog of the different types of men's shirt collars. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Buffalo-Pitts: 1905
... on a railcar on a boat on ice. Here we see two brand-new Buffalo-Pitts steam tractors on a flatcar aboard the transfer steamer City ... Company. View full size. Before There Was Buffalo Springfield Buffalo-Pitts was a predecessor company. Successors ... 
 
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There probably aren't many photos out there of a steam tractor on a railcar on a boat on ice. Here we see two brand-new Buffalo-Pitts steam tractors on a flatcar aboard the transfer steamer City of Detroit on the Detroit River in winter. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Before There Was Buffalo SpringfieldBuffalo-Pitts was a predecessor company. Successors included Poco, Loggins & Messina, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. How Things Stack UpIt's like an industrial version of "Hop on Pop." Progressive FarmingThe company is no more but there is a website: http://www.buffalopitts.com AlsoIs that a locomotive or industrial boiler behind the tractor on the left? The item behind the tractorsThis appears to be the tube sheet for a pretty good sized industrial or large heating boiler. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, DPC, Railroads)
Tin and Bones: 1920
... of the forward portion of driveshaft. Atterbury Plant Buffalo Here's a snip from Palmer's Views of Buffalo Past and Present, copyright 1911 Unusual drive The differential ... 
 
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San Francisco, 1920. "Atterbury truck at City Hall." Looking somewhat skeletal if you ask us. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size. Muffler BearingI believe the muffler and header pipe are seen rather than a driveshaft center support bearing as mentioned by Born40YearsTooLate. The muffler is being supported on the street side frame rail by hangers from the two sets of four rivets and therefore hiding most of the forward portion of driveshaft. Atterbury Plant BuffaloHere's a snip from Palmer's Views of Buffalo Past and Present, copyright 1911 Unusual driveThe differential at the rear axle is oriented so that the pinion runs vertically, with another type of gear setup (bevel gears?) transferring the horizontal rotation of the driveshaft to the vertical rotation of the pinion. It's overly complicated, but improves the ground clearance under the driveshaft. They also use a very interesting center support for the driveshaft. This looks like it could be the three-and-a-half-ton model (Model 7D). In 1919 they were priced at $3875 for the standard length chassis, or $3975 for the "long chassis". Atterbury trucks were built in Buffalo, New York. Let Our Experts HelpYour local distributor (from the San Francisco Chronicle February 1, 1920): DifferentialThe gearing in the differential is a worm screw drive. A very compact system for high wheel torque but the downside was the fact that the vehicle didn't 'coast' well and was difficult to move if the engine wasn't running and the back wheels were on the ground. Cab & ChassisIndeed it is 'skeletal'. This is a "Cab & Chassis". They are sold to companies that will add a box, flatbed, tank or whatever to it and then put it on the retail market. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, Chris Helin, San Francisco)
A Penny a Pound: 1910
March 1910. Buffalo, New York. "Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street. 11 years old last ... Childhood My Grandfather was born in 1899, very near Buffalo, and he lived to see three centuries! He was lucky to work for his ... Anthony A. Martina was born July 2, 1897, and died in Buffalo in January of 1986. His wife Sylvia died in Buffalo on September 29, ... 
 
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March 1910. Buffalo, New York. "Antonio Martina, 53 Carolina Street. 11 years old last summer. Attends School No. 1. He and a 13-year-old sister worked in sheds of Ellis-Canning Factory, Brant, N.Y., snipping beans at 1 cent a pound. Left for the country in May, returned late in September, losing about 7 weeks of school. He sells papers reluctantly." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. Very Short ChildhoodMy Grandfather was born in 1899, very near Buffalo, and he lived to see three centuries! He was lucky to work for his family business, instead of going off to work as did this young boy. I grew up in East Aurora NY. Wonder if you Shorpy Gentleman have any old photos from that interesting Western NY Town? Here a kid, there a kidThe place is crawling with toddlers, one waiting to pounce (on the extreme right) and at least two in the window. With no T.V. I guess they had no entertainment. A Penny a Pound: 1910This is Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project. Anthony A. Martina was born July 2, 1897, and died in Buffalo in January of 1986. His wife Sylvia died in Buffalo on September 29, 1989. According to the 1940 census, he had three children, Robert, James and Sylvia. Robert died in Buffalo on December 7, 2002. I have been unable to find any information on the whereabouts of the other two children. According to the Buffalo city directories and the WWI draft records, Anthony worked for the Iroquois Natural Gas Company from at least 1918 to 1956. I haven't been able to obtain obituaries for Anthony, his wife, or son Robert. Lewis Hine continued a great tradition.Fifty or so years earlier Henry Mayhew attempted to catalogue the lowest reaches of the poorer clases in "London Labour and the London Poor." This photograph is the closest I have seen to the the hand engravings which illustrate Mayhew's book, some of which were taken from early photographs. Mayhew's work had a great influence on the Victorian social reformers, including Dickens. "The Boy Crossing Sweepers" is shown below. A Penny a Pound: 1910Joe Manning again. I just talked with Anthony Martina's grandson, who was excited to hear about the photograph. I will notify Shorpy when I put the story together. One hand bigger?Is his right arm longer and right hand larger than his left? Would this be due to his snipping beans all day, probably with his right hand? Story of Antonio Martina, of BuffaloJoe Manning again, from the Lewis Hine Project. I have completed my story of Antonio (Anthony) Martina. He was adored by his grandson, whom I interviewed. He worked for the Iroquois Gas Company for 45 years, and lived a long time. You can see my entire story, including many photos of Anthony and his family, at this link. http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2015/01/25/anthony-martina/ (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine)
Angels and Asphalt: 1935
... -- Paving in Arlington National Cemetery." On the left, a Buffalo Springfield steamroller that's the real deal, actually powered by ... device. It is based on a German musical technique. Buffalo Springfield being operated by Neil Young, Stephen Stills, or perhaps ... 
 
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Arlington, Virginia, circa 1935. "Union Paving Co. -- Paving in Arlington National Cemetery." On the left, a Buffalo Springfield steamroller that's the real deal, actually powered by steam. Photo by Theodor Horydczak. View full size. Comrades in ArmsThe gravestone with the cross and angel is that of First Lieutenant Thomas Hudson McKee. During the Civil War, McKee was an aide to Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Kelley, who is buried beneath the gravestone with the bronze relief of his face. Stop, hey, what's that sound?It's the sound of the steamroller that would give its name to a great rock band about 30 years later -- "For What It's Worth". In case you're wonderingYes, the 1960's band took its name from the steamroller manufacturer. Mannheim Steamroller's moniker has nothing to do with a road-paving device. It is based on a German musical technique. Buffalo Springfieldbeing operated by Neil Young, Stephen Stills, or perhaps Richie Furay? An Angel's HandHas been lost over time... Neighbors and a truckThe monument with the large face on it (behind 1LT McKee) is the grave marker of Brigadier General Benjamin F. Kelley (1807 - 1891) and his wife Mary. Also shown, just to the left of BG Kelley marker, is the monument for Major George H. Rathgeber (1870 - 1928) and his wife Eleanor. He joined the Army in 1887, rose through the ranks, and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in 1906. He fought with the Philippine Scouts during the Philippine Campaign, and retired in 1920 because of disability. He died at Walter Reed Hospital. The dump truck is a 1927-28 Relay, made by Relay Motors Corporation in Lima Ohio. You can see the "R" on the hub cover of the back wheel as well as the slanted louvers on the hood and raised panel on the door which were characteristics of the larger models of the marque. Relay consolidated Commerce, Garford, and Service trucks under one corporation, but went out of business in 1933. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, D.C., Theodor Horydczak)
Stoves to Go: 1901
... Neat idea, just don't miss stepping on each RR Tie. Buffalo Scale Company I really love all the neat things in this picture like the Buffalo Scales under and beside the tracks. It appears that a rail went along ... 
 
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Chelsea, Michigan, circa 1901. "Glazier Stove Company tramway." Much as the swallows have their Capistrano, so do Shorpyites eventually find themselves back at the Glazier Stove Works. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size. Steam whistleI love the steam whistle over top of the building on the left. A favorite at lunch time or the end of the day. Hello in thereAnother open window with another person looking out. It's almost like being a Peeping Tom, a century after all the action has taken place. Wheelbarrow rides the rails.Neat idea, just don't miss stepping on each RR Tie. Buffalo Scale CompanyI really love all the neat things in this picture like the Buffalo Scales under and beside the tracks. It appears that a rail went along side the scale so you could unload things, weigh them and then re-load them. I am sure there is a scale mechanism beneath that wooden platform. (The Gallery, DPC, Glazier Stove Works, Railroads)
Grande Auto: 1958
... those TV antennas were picking up stations in the U.S. Buffalo across the lake In Toronto in '58, local TV was one station: CBLT ... a good antenna you could get the 3 American networks from Buffalo across Lake Ontario: WGRZ channel 2 (NBC), WBEN channel 4 (CBS) and ... 
 
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A Kodachrome slide I acquired, showing a car dealer somewhere in Ontario, Canada, circa 1958. I've tried to find the exact location. Another picture shows the crossing with Eastville Avenue. View full size. TorontoThere is an Eastville Avenue in Toronto. Runs south from Kingston Road to Bluffers Park on the shore of Lake Ontario. Only cross streets are Kingston, Stoley Road, Barkdene Hills, Sunnypoint Crescent, and, possibly, Gradwell Drive. I'll take the NashGreat to see these in their original, unrestored, unmodified condition. It just has to be GM.Look at the lines on the rear door of that OLDS !! Business planWe'll keep the black one and ship all the pastel cars to Cuba. Canadians loved their televisionOutside of the beautiful cars, I'm struck by all of the television antennas in the background! Regarding the cars, my mom's first car was a little yellow Nash Metropolitan convertible like the one in the foreground. Scarborough, OntarioI lived about a mile east of here on Shirley Crescent in the 1980's. Back then it was a typical suburb with single family homes, shopping malls, strip malls, lots of gas stations and car dealers. But if you were lucky enough to live south of Kingston Road the view of Lake Ontario from the top of the bluffs was quite beautiful. Eastville AvenueThey still haven't invented a time capsule to go back. The slide showing the Eastville Avenue crossing is now here. Thx guys. Tuning inI don't think I've ever seen so many tall TV antennas in one picture before! Love the Olds!The Oldsmobile means business. Was it a Rocket V8? I can't tell. Love that 1957 Olds!I had a silver 1957 Olds Super 88 four-door during my college years circa 1975-1977. Seeing this one brought a smile to my face. The car was very sophisticated in many respects and quite comfortable inside. It also had a lot of torque with a touchy throttle, which was due to having a four-barrel carburetor with four equally-sized large bores. (There was a version that had three two-barrel carburetors. I can only imagine what that was like!) It was like sitting in a bay window and driving an apartment house. Toronto Eastville Avenue and Kingston RoadSuspect the used car dealer may have been on the northeast corner of Eastville Avenue and Kingston Road. The '57 Olds 98Is easily the hottest car of all those in view, especially if it has the optional J-2 setup with three two-barrel carburetors, giving it the magic for the '50s 300 HP rating. When Consumer Reports evaluated the 1957 Olds 88, it said it was the fastest car they had ever tested up to that time with the exception of the Chrysler 300B. And across the streetflies the red ensign, the flag I grew up with until 1965, I assume most of those TV antennas were picking up stations in the U.S. Buffalo across the lakeIn Toronto in '58, local TV was one station: CBLT channel 6 operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. But with a good antenna you could get the 3 American networks from Buffalo across Lake Ontario: WGRZ channel 2 (NBC), WBEN channel 4 (CBS) and WKBW channel 7 (ABC.) As a kid in Toronto, I knew the names of all the neighbourhoods and major streets in Buffalo thanks to Eyewitness News :) Canadian TireBased on the clues, I'd say it is now the Canadian Tire store at Kingston and Eastville. The sign on the building says it's 3060, which works with Kingston Road. A couple of blocks east of the Edsel dealership?The car lot is long gone, but the church may be part of the current Joy City Church, near 3060 Kingston Road in Toronto. Love the Canadian Red Ensign (pre-1965) flag on the pole. Saved-up NashI had an uncle by marriage who was on a different wavelength. He bought a new red-and-white Nash Metropolitan in the early 1950s, drove it to a storage building he had in Fernandina Beach, Florida, and stored it for many years. He had the thing on blocks and would start the engine once a week or so just to keep things from freezing up, I guess. The wheels were in a stack behind the car. He thought he'd get rich when some collector would pay a fortune one day for a mint Metropolitan that was basically undriven. When he died in the early 1970s, I believe, the Nash was still in the shed. His family didn't know what to do with the car because at that time and in that place, it wasn't valuable. So they sold it for a couple of hundred bucks. Pretty car, though. LocationAccording to this. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
SuperCenter: 1941
... Car ID 1939 Pontiac. New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad This store was located along the railroad that was built ... 
 
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October 1941. "Main store for Fort Hunter, New York." Glimpsed earlier here and here. Medium format nitrate negative by John Collier. View full size. Still around todaySalada Tea company was founded in 1892 by Peter Charles Larkin. He introduced the concept of storing the tea in aluminum foil instead of storing it loosely. Looks drearyYou sure the Bates Motel isn't somewhere in the background? Wittemeier Coal and CokeHarold Wittemeier owned the largest coal company in the area. He stated that during the depression, people in Fort Hunter would remove up to two tons of coal from parked trains. As a result, coal trains were instructed to speed through the town to avoid "scooping". Rails to TrailsA quick pivot of the recent Google Earth view shows that the railroad tracks are long gone, replaced by an asphalt bike/ped trail, which young hiker seems to be enjoying. Minus a chimney & porch Car ID1939 Pontiac. New York, West Shore & Buffalo RailroadThis store was located along the railroad that was built with Pennsylvania RR interests to compete with the New York Central Railroad. (The two roads later declared a truce and swapped some of their routes.) A few images of the Fort Hunter train station can be seen at the bottom of this website as well as the railroad bridge located a few hundred yards west of the store. This bridge is now a bike trail but was placed into service as a highway bridge when a bridge on the nearby New York Throughway collapsed in 1987 killing 10. (The Gallery, John Collier, Railroads, Small Towns, Stores & Markets)
Clairvoyant Bird: 1900
Buffalo, N.Y., 1900. "Labor Day parade, Main Street." The city's Good Humor men ... again. I'll take a shot in the dark and say it was the Buffalo version of NYC's White Wings, their Department of Sanitation. Good ... men, and do they carry swords (sticks) Just how big was Buffalo in 1910 that they would need hundreds of men distributing ice cream. ... 
 
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Buffalo, N.Y., 1900. "Labor Day parade, Main Street." The city's Good Humor men pass in review. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size. I, for one... welcome our ice-cream-wielding overlords. After Labor DayNo white pants until Decoration Day 1901. Where's The Law?In a like public venue today the boys in blue would be found every ten yards or so. Wow, patriotism was evident ever more so than today, judging by how well Old Glory is represented. Sword-wielding ice cream overlords?Each of them appears to be holding a sword -- for dividing ice cream sandwiches that stick together? Or something more menacing? Also, an impressive number of bicycles and bicycle racks -- I doubt there are anywhere near that many (if any at all) in the current stretch of road. And, oops, one of the flags in the third floor windows of the Miller Block is flying upside down. Men In WhiteSince the Good Humor Company wasn't founded until the early 1920s, we have to guess again. I'll take a shot in the dark and say it was the Buffalo version of NYC's White Wings, their Department of Sanitation. Good Humor men?Are they really good humor men, and do they carry swords (sticks) Just how big was Buffalo in 1910 that they would need hundreds of men distributing ice cream. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping themThe Good Humor men will soon be here. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted Shorpy contributor, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground ice cream caves. The gift of prophecyI'll bet the Clairvoyant Bird knew that parade was going to take place months before it actually happened. Sword wieldersPerhaps the original Buffalo Sabres? Stick MenI would guess the sticks were to prod the horses used in whatever business these men made their living by. Paperhangers?Whatever these guys do, they clearly have a distinct uniform and the special pokey-thing they carry is part of their trade recognition. White designates cleanliness. If you could wear white uniform all day it meant you didn't work with oily machinery or coal fires. Those sticks they are carrying must be emblematic of the trade. Any chance of some ShorpyZoom on one them? Official Monthly Magazine. Devoted to the interests of House, Sign, Pictorial, Coach, Car, Carriage, Machinery, Ship and Railroad Equipment Painters, Decorators, Paperhangers, Hard Wood Finishers, Grainers, Glaziers, Varnish Enamelers and Gilders. … Labor Day, 1903. … Buffalo, N.Y. It was but just that the painters, decorators and paperhangers of the city should have the right of the line, for they made a magnificent showing, the opinion being general along the line of march that these men made the finest appearance of any organization. All were clad in immaculate white. The trousers were white duck, the shirts were snowy cambric, the belts were white leather and each man wore a white yachting cap and a handsome boutonniere, and Marshal Chapman, who led the line, rode a splendid snow-white horse. There were cheers for the painters along the line of march and there were predictions that the union will gain its fourth silken banner because of its showing, having already won three for making the finest appearance in annual Labor Day processions. (The Gallery, Bicycles, Buffalo NY, DPC, Patriotic, Streetcars)
Transit Grill: 1943
... displaying the Paterson Park route scroll." Buffalo Lunch The Google finds plenty of references TO a "Buffalo Lunch", but not a definition of WHAT it is. Hopefully somebody in ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/12/2017 - 11:12pm -

April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. "Baltimore Transit bus with trolleys of 1917 vintage. Many old cars have been reconditioned because of wartime transportation pressure." Photo by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information. View full size. Locals locateFrom a discussion board of Baltimore locals: "The photographer is standing in the middle of Eastern Avenue looking north up Grundy. The business on the left would later become the White Coffee Pot and the buildings out of the frame on the right would be torn down for Goldenberg’s. The two unit streetcar is the 26 about to turn left on its way to Sparrows Point, and the bus is on the #10 loop, although displaying the Paterson Park route scroll." Buffalo LunchThe Google finds plenty of references TO a "Buffalo Lunch", but not a definition of WHAT it is. Hopefully somebody in ShorpyLand can provide a definition? [Older references seem to indicate it meant cafeteria or buffet-style service. -tterrace] Thanks, one of those rabbit-holes Shorpy often presents that I dive into and can't find an answer. -HP (The Gallery, Baltimore, Eateries & Bars, Streetcars)
Motorcycle Mama: 1937
... Sally Robinson - She Weighs Only 88 Pounds - Had to 'Buffalo' Stalwart Policeman but Finally Won His Praise - and License. By ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/06/2013 - 11:51am -

September 15, 1937. "First of fair sex to obtain motorcycle license in Capital. Although she weighs only 88 pounds -- one-third of the machine she rides, Mrs. Sally Halterman is the first woman to be granted a license to operate a motorcycle in the District of Columbia. She is 27 years old and 4 feet, 11 inches tall. Immediately after receiving her permit, Mrs. Halterman was initiated into the D.C. Motorcycle Club -- the only girl ever to be accorded this honor." View full size. Brain Bucket?Not much of a helmet, but I was pretty stupid when I rode my Harley... I'd love to have her bike now. Crash GuardsBy the looks of the crash guard, it had been laid down a few times on the right side. The front fender and headlight rim didn't fare too well either. Look at her feet.She really is tiny. She can barely touch the ground. Love the boots and the jodhpurs though. If I were still riding, I'd have to think about getting a similar outfit. Aunt Eva was a CarnyRode loop the loops on her Indian in 1932. Same style duds, but when not on the bike add a gunbelt. Instead of a helmet, add a rakish cap (think Brando). I'll have to see about scanning a picture of her in her "uniform." A total packageThose boots just *make* the outfit. And she's got great gloves. You'd think someone could make a bike more her size, though. Maybe she got one eventually, custom-built. Still a girl of 27Wow! 27 years old and still a *girl*! at 4 foot 11, that makes her more like a midget. Wanna Race?Her squint says: Road rash? maybe a time or two. What about it? Go Biker Chick!!Most bikes are too tall for the shorter-than-average woman and man even today. I'm 5-foot-3 and can barely reach the ground on my Harley Sportster. I had to make sure to get boots with good heels. I can't imagine riding in that helmet. It looks like a bathing cap! UpfrontNo riding on the bitch seat for this Hot Mamma. Productive CussingTypically the differences in names between the Library of Congress and Washington Post archives are slight variances of spelling. I don't know what could account the Harris & Ewing photographer mistaking the name 'Robinson' for 'Halterman'. Washington Post, Sep 11, 1937 D.C.'s Lone Girl Motorcyclist Stormed Loudly to Get Permit Sally Robinson - She Weighs Only 88 Pounds - Had to 'Buffalo' Stalwart Policeman but Finally Won His Praise - and License. By dint of stamping her foot Sally Robinson, of 2120 H street northwest, has become the only girl in Washington licensed to ride a motorcycle. Miss Robinson - all 88 pounds of her - has been operating motorcycles on and off since 1928, but last spring she decided she wanted a permit. The policeman assigned to officiate at her examination had different ideas, however. Although the District has no law against women motorcyclists, this examiner apparently thought it should have. "First he said I was too little, then he said I was too young," Miss Robinson declaimed yesterday, malice toward all policeman shining in her eyes." She is 27, years old and 4 feet 11 inches tall, and didn't see what either factor had to do with her sitting behind the handlebars of a motorcycle. "I passed the written examination all right - passed it twice, in fact. The first time I got 80 on it, but that wasn't good enough for him so I went down again and got 92, when that didn't satisfy him, I got my lawyer. "Well, that cop looked from me to the lawyer, and from the lawyer to me, and then he said I could take my road test," she continued. Her difficulties had not ended, however. Thinking all was well, she said goodbye to her lawyer and started out for the road test. Then the policeman announced he would not ride with her in the sidecar of the machine he provided for the test - he said he was afraid to. But when the test was over, the examiner announced, "Lady, you handle it as well as a man could. Your balance is swell and you know the machine. But I didn't see you kick it over so I can't give you the permit." That was when Miss Robinson started "cussing him out." "I called him such names - well, I was ashamed of myself. But it worked, and I have the permit." Miss Robinson uses the smallest type of machine built, but at that it weighs 325 pounds, nearly four times as much as she does. Despite the fact, it occasionally falls on her, she insists she would rather ride that machine than eat when she's hungry. As for automobiles, she has no use for them whatsoever. At present her chief goal is membership in the Capitolians, a newly formed motorcycle club of which Lynn Cook, 1515 U street northwest is president. She will be on the only girl in the club, which does not share the Police Department's prejudice against the sex. Name Difference>> I don't know what could account the Harris & Ewing photographer mistaking the name "Robinson" for "Halterman." It probably wasn't a mistake. Confusion on the distaff sideIf your information is correct, I'd say that Robinson is her maiden name, and Halterman is her married name. "Miss" v. "Mrs. Ya reckonshe had a shirt that said "If you can read this, the bastard fell off!"? Harley SportsterBiker Girl, most people think the Sportster is an easy bike to ride, but that is far from the truth. The Sportster came out in 1958 and was adopted by many as a "bar hopper" motorcycle. The Sportster is really harder to ride than the other models. it has a higher center of gravity and more torque in the lower gears and is by no means a starter bike. I've owned just about ever model and would strongly recommend the Fat Boy model. Harley Sportster or Fat Boy?Jimmy, I appreciate your opinion but disagree. The 883 Sportster is truly an entry level bike. It has centered ergos (no forward controls or floorboards), less weight and more ground clearance than any of the Softail models. Its reduced fork rake and better clearance make it far more maneuverable than any Fat Boy. Unlike the 1200 motor, the 883 doesn't make that much torque and is very tractable and easy to control. I think apart from Harley, there are better starter bikes, but if you must have a Harley and you're a newbie, a Sporty is hard to beat. Where do I buy the poster?I ride motorcycles, and own two, and YES, I'm a chick! I love these vintage pics, and would be honoured to have her splashed against a prominent wall in my home. Good for her!! Girls, get on out there. It's tons of fun, believe me! Leave your fears at the door. This sport is just too much fun to miss out on! Small differences a result of retrospective reporting.The posters story looks to have been written long after, by someone who wanted it to sound like it was written then. The original story as pasted in the comments has two important clues. As mentioned before, the original refers to her as "Miss Robinson" while the more current peice uses a married name. Also, the fabrication states: "Mrs. Halterman was initiated into the D.C. Motorcycle Club -- the only girl ever to be accorded this honor." While the older story says she intended at that time to ask for membership, implying that it wasn't a certainty. [A Shorpy mystery! Somehow you've gotten very confused. At least you've gotten me very confused. Below, the newspaper article that you think was "fabricated." What are you thinking is "the original" -- the original what? The caption under the photo comes from the Library of Congress. - Dave] A little history on "Dot" RobinsonShe was really really something! (The Gallery, D.C., Harris + Ewing, Motorcycles)
Agfa Supreme: 1941
... the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Buffalo Peaks The rounded peaks are the Buffalo Peaks - east and west as seen from highway 24/285 in the center of the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/13/2014 - 12:45pm -

September 1941. "Highway southwest of Denver, Colorado." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Buffalo PeaksThe rounded peaks are the Buffalo Peaks - east and west as seen from highway 24/285 in the center of the state. Wow!I don't think colorizing this photo could do it justice. [Dittorissimo. -tterrace] (The Gallery, Landscapes, M.P. Wolcott)
Maison Blanche: 1910
... building now houses the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. "Buffalo Dental Parlors" Must have used really big chairs and spit ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/19/2012 - 1:01pm -

New Orleans in 1910. "Maison Blanche, Canal Street." Continuing our tour of Crescent City retailers. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size. Shop at M.B.This was the second Maison Blanche store building at the same location at the downtown lake corner of Canal and Dauphine Streets, completed in 1909. Photo dates from between the completion of the Audubon Building (the lower high-rise to the left) in 1910 and the construction of the Krauss Store building in the empty space between them in 1913. New Orleans seems to have kept its old business district department stores longer than many U.S. cities, so I have fond memories of shopping Maison Blanche -- though I wound up purchasing more at it's lower-priced competition, Krauss's, over on Basin Street, the last of the old Canal Street department stores to fold in 1997. However regulars knew that if you came to Canal Street by car you could still get your free parking validated on the 3rd floor at M.B. even if you didn't make a purchase. The department store occupied the bottom 5 floors of the building. Above was office space -- into the 1980s, still with old direct-current elevators. The store was bought by Dillards and briefly closed down in 1984, then reopened only occupying 3 floors for a few more years. The Maison Blanche building now houses the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. "Buffalo Dental Parlors"Must have used really big chairs and spit sinks. Matrix Sign?I'm really intrigued by what appears to be a matrix sign above Kaufmans. A count of the "pixels" seems to indicate 10 smaller matrices, each of 25 x 20 bulbs, making a total of no less than 5,000 bulbs! Obviously this is far too old to use any sort of digital technology, but I'd have thought a matrix of that size would have been pretty unmanageable with even electro-mechanical switching. Unless it's just a panel of thousands of small bulbs to make a bright rectangle (can't see the point in that) my best guess is it must have relied on something like punched paper tape running though a whole bank of 5,000 microswitches or something. Does anyone know any more about this? Are there any shots of it at night? If so (and if I'm right) - it must have been the wonder of the day! (The Gallery, DPC, New Orleans, Stores & Markets, Streetcars)
Fellow Travelers: 1899
... England and the remainder of the 13 colonies. B is for Buffalo The "B 390" stands for Buffalo, NY, not Boston. The New York Central did eventually reach Boston, but ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/18/2016 - 12:43pm -

Circa 1899. "R.R. depot at Garrison, New York." En route to their final destination. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size. Beautiful locationThe Metro-North Hudson line runs along the Hudson River up to Poughkeepsie. A truly beautiful train ride around sunset. Chair legs I'd venture a guess that the fellow second from right is the telegraph operator, due to the fact the chair he is sitting in has glass telegraph insulators on the front legs. I have heard of rangers on watch duty in forest fire towers and telegraph operators doing that in case of a lighning strike, but they would put them on all four, not just the front ones. Insulated leg extensionsIt looks like the young man sitting on the left has his chair propped up on some telegraph pole insulators. I would imagine they have a few boxes stored there. Dressed upGranted that people dressed up to go anywhere in those days, but the level of best-of-the-Sunday-best sort of suggests a trip to NYC itself. Bolivia BoundButch Cassidy leans nonchalantly agains the window sill while Sundance assumes an agressive stance to his left. Their traveling companion, Etta Place, has just went inside to buy their tickets. Hello DollyThe Garrison train station is used as the set (standing in for Yonkers) in the movie Hello Dolly. Lots of information if you scroll down to "Garrison New York Location" here. New York Central RailroadBeing that Garrison Station is now Metro North RR today this means it is a very good probability that at the time of the photograph this was a New York Central Railroad Station. RevolutionaryNew York City 50 miles this-a-way (south), and Boston 390 miles that-a-way (northeast). BTW, called Garrison, because General Washington garrisoned his troops there as a blocking force to protect control of the Hudson River while the British occupied 50 miles this-a-way (south) aka NYC. If the British got control of the Hudson, they would have had a wedge between New England and the remainder of the 13 colonies. B is for BuffaloThe "B 390" stands for Buffalo, NY, not Boston. The New York Central did eventually reach Boston, but via a subsidiary railroad called the Boston and Albany (which it didn't assume control of until a year after this photo was taken). Milepost measurements are from NYC to Buffalo and eventually Chicago (when you include their Michigan Southern subsidiary). Today Garrison itself still has a rural feel to it, but this station building is long gone, replaced by modern high-level concrete platforms. (The Gallery, DPC, Railroads)
Circle in the Square: 1908
Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "McKinley Monument, Niagara Square." 8x10 inch ... another hotel. More information available at History of Buffalo . Shipshape Got to hand it to Buffalo, this is one of the neatest and cleanest big city views I've ever seen. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:40am -

Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "McKinley Monument, Niagara Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. On the edgeThat lawn guy on the bottom right is doing a terrific job. Castle InnFormerly the Fillmore House, residence of Millard Fillmore after his term as President. It was converted to a hotel by his son and later renamed the Castle Inn for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. Demolished in 1919 to make way for another hotel. More information available at History of Buffalo. ShipshapeGot to hand it to Buffalo, this is one of the neatest and cleanest big city views I've ever seen. (The Gallery, Buffalo NY, DPC, Streetcars)
J.C. Flood: 1926
... of Ceausescu (Romania), was aptly named Militaru Buffalo The Amigone funeral homes in the Buffalo, New York area laid me out when I lived there. Pun intended. Family ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/05/2012 - 5:46pm -

Washington circa 1926. "J.C. Flood truck. Ford Motor Co." The J.C. Flood Plumbing business is still going strong in the Washington area. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. Lil PeeperCute kid looking out the window at all the excitement. The formal worldI had repairs done to my heating system this week but I don't recall the repairmen showing up wearing a tie or bowtie. Must be a union thing. Hee hee...I love it when people's names fit their jobs, like Mr. Flood the plumber, or Dr. Whitehead the dermatologist, or Larry Sprinkle, the meteorologist. What is tinning?Is it relining old copper pots and pans with tin? [Tinning is soldering. As in pipe joints. The company also did "tin roofing, guttering and spouting." Its ads drew a distinction between tinning and sheet metal work. - Dave] Nominative DeterminismThere is a whole theory (Nominative Determinism) built around the idea that people eventually gravitate into professions for which they are name-suited. This was devised by the New Scientist journal: "WE recently came across a new book, Pole Positions - The Polar Regions and the Future of the Planet, by Daniel Snowman. Then, a couple of weeks later, we received a copy of London Under London - A Subterranean Guide, one of the authors of which is Richard Trench. So it was interesting to see Jen Hunt of the University of Manchester stating in the October issue of The Psychologist: "Authors gravitate to the area of research which fits their surname." Hunt's example is an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology (vol 49, pp 173-176, 1977) by J. W. Splatt and D. Weedon.[1] (This really does exist. We've checked it.)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism More Apt DBAsOne of the oldest plumbing companies in my city (fourth generation now) is the eponymously named "Goforth Plumbing & Drain." And, one of the most-respected doctors here in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly trusted for what were still called "female complaints," maintained a thriving practice despite the name on his shingle: "Albert S. Hackim, Physician & Surgeon." Dr. TIn southern California, I had a dentist named Dr. Toothacher and a physician named Dr. Croak. I kid you not. Hee Hee... (part two)The orthodontist I went to as a child was Dr. Toothman. And, I used to work with a woman named Mrs. Payne - her son is a dentist. In nomen omenIf may I add another case, the war minister of Ceausescu (Romania), was aptly named Militaru BuffaloThe Amigone funeral homes in the Buffalo, New York area laid me out when I lived there. Pun intended. Family name. NamesMy dentist is Dr. Fang First CarHmmm.. yeah. Bought my first car from a Mrs. Cheatham. It didn't seem ironic until the accelerator fell through the floor a week later. My mom and I still laugh about it 20 years later. We never buy anything anymore from anyone named Cheatham. I also worked with a Fonda Dicks (I know you must all think I'm joking, but I'm serious as a heart attack) at a rest home in Ohio. I don't know if it pertained to her occupation as a nurse's aide, but it did seem ironic that any heterosexual woman would be named that. [Ironic? More like "appropriate." - Dave] Alley ViewHas anybody looked to see if this house is still standing? I checked Street View (fantastic invention!) but their cameras didn't go down this alley (behind the 2100 block of 14th NW). And has anybody noticed the thin lines of snow on top of the tree branches? This must have been a sunny Winter's day - making those broken windowpanes the little boy is looking out of all the more troubling. That house he's living in is nicely designed. The owner/builder took money and care with those decorative touches along the roof-line. Seeing buildings like this one excites me to no end. [Try Live Maps Bird's Eye View. Click below. - Dave] (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, D.C., Natl Photo, Stores & Markets)
Unloading: 1900
Buffalo, New York, circa 1900. "Thornberger hoist unloading ore at Lackawanna ... for Ore and Coal Traffic on Lake Erie. Buffalo, N.Y. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co., (Docks ... been taken before then. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Buffalo NY, DPC) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/08/2012 - 7:36pm -

Buffalo, New York, circa 1900. "Thornberger hoist unloading ore at Lackawanna docks." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. 18440I hope those 2 guys standing in that open boxcar were getting hazardous duty pay. Janey Couplers & BrakesIt is interesting to note that all the freight cars (drop bottom gondola type) are equipped with Janey style knuckle couplers. Car 18440 is marked as having air brakes but the others are not and do not show any air hoses next to the couplers. These cars must have been assembled into very interesting trains with air brakes on some cars and hand brakes on others. This picture was taken during that transition time. I think air brakes were required by law on all interchange cars (those cars passed from one railroad to another) by 1906. Flat bottom gondolasI never thought about how the unloaded those cars -- hole in the middle, so men have to push the coal to the opening, eh? I had wondered. Labor was all American back then. The American Flyer train set I had as a kid had cars that tilted to dump. That's a load?Note the gondolas with a pile of ore in each end of the car. These cars are loaded. Ore is much heavier, by volume, than coal. To load one of these cars with ore like the coal load in the foreground, would cause the car to collapse. Coal hoppers are loaded with iron ore exactly the same way today. Also note the old boxcar sitting on the ground at right. It has been demoted to yard shanty status. This car is about 34 feet long, and was likely built in the 1880's. Six-Rig Thornburg HoistI believe the correct spelling is Thornburg, though their are several variants: Thornberg, Thornburgh, and Thornberger. A reverse view of the same machines is at Hydra: 1901. An earlier year of the Blue Book referred to them as Excelsior Hoists. I can't find out much information on either Thornburg or Excelsior Hoists and whether they were one and the same. Also, I still can't figure out how these things were powered: electric or steam? Blue Book of American Shipping, 1909. Railway Terminal Facilities for Ore and Coal Traffic on Lake Erie. Buffalo, N.Y. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co., (Docks in Erie Basin), W. E. Dowle, assistant general freight agent — Six-rig Thornburg hoist, capable of unloading 1,500 gross tons in ten hours. All rigs can be worked on any vessel having hatches of 24 feet centers or less. No storage room. Medieval ore loadersLooks like a bunch of trebuchets to me. Look at all of those barges waiting to go back up the Erie Canal. Steam or electric?I'd say steam from the steam plant on the left. the venting out the top is a tell tale of steam pressure venting from an engine. I imagine the steam is produced there and vented there (no venting on the rig itself it seems) and supplied under the track it traverses on. I just wonder if they had some kind of flexible piping to allow the thing to move or if they hooked it up after setting it in place.. it doesn't look like it has to travel far. One more possibility is that they were powered hydrolically from the steam plant. that would solve a lot of problems bringing steam out to the units. the other post mentions 2000t over 10 hours so I don't imagine each of the units had to deal with a lot or weight in a shovel full. I think it was built for speed over capacity and hydrolic would make sense and is about right for it to be tried in 1900 for a job like this Electric or steamThe building in the foreground with the large stack and the 2 smaller stacks appears to be a stationary steam plant. I do not see any wires or typical electric infrastructure going to the hoists. On the other hand I also do not see any evidence of steam operation on the hoist mechanism. If they were in operation at the time of the photo you would see exhaust steam coming off of the steam powered winches. A Powerful IdeaThe power to these hoists perhaps is provided by a line shaft from the shed on the left, which happens to be inline with the hoists. There appear to be two steam exhaust stacks from the roof, which could indicate a large twin cylinder or tandem steam engine with a boiler elsewhere. A line shaft could exit the end of the shed and run through near the base of each hoist much like an old time machine shop providing power to each hoist, and each of course being individually controlled by an operator. Also note, the counter balance weights on each hoist that look like lumber planks stacked three or four, hooked to cable running over pulleys and guided by round bar. I think rather than wood planks, they are large steel flat bar counterweights to assist in moving and/or balancing the load of the booms as they swing back and forth. A second set of weights are certainly on the other side of each hoist out of view. A line shaft providing power to the cable lifts for the ore buckets and also the booms, which being relieved by the counter weights would require less power. ShaftsOn the link kindly provided by stanton_square showing the other end of these hoists, one can see a shaft extending from the last hoist and being supported by a sawhorse and a bearing block being positioned by tapered wedges or shims. Such a block, probably wooden, properly oiled provides a surprisingly good bearing surface and placed to keep the shaft from whipping and damaging the inboard bearing. This shaft extension leads me to believe that indeed this set of hoists is powered by a line shaft from the shed. All of the hoists probably have these shaft extensions for connection to each other and rather than cut off the last one, it is usually left in place for future expansion or to move to another position should one hoist be destroyed or go out of service. Other unloading cranes Here's a link to the development and photos of much larger buckets and cranes as the industry evolved. Visit each of the sites in the left navigation page for a overall history. Unloading Iron ore http://www.clevelandmemory.org/glihc/oretrade.html Alva Sunk 1895According to Great Lakes Maritime History Vol 1. Chapter 41 http://www.linkstothepast.com/marine/chapt41.php (1895) "August: Steamer Alva sunk by collision with whaleback barge 117 at the Sault." Unless the ship being unloaded is a different Alva, this picture has to have been taken before then. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Buffalo NY, DPC)
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