Palace Marquee
Image by carljohnson via Flickr When they designed the new Palace Theater marquee, they didn’t fool around. In fact, they...
So where was celluloid invented?
For years I’ve meant to get a picture of this marker, located next to a defunct Friendly’s restaurant not far...
En pointe
2007 recital 219, originally uploaded by carljohnson. From a couple of years back. I’m resorting to a photograph today because,...
Mea culpa!
Sorry to all the folks who took the time to comment and then wondered if I even cared. Your comment...
Hoxsie!
Hoxsie!, originally uploaded by carljohnson. From the Schenectady City Directory for 1862-63, my favorite image ever. Ever. No, I don’t...
Corruption at the Capitol, 1910-style
Tne New International Year Book, “A Compendium of the World’s Progress for the Year 1910,” provides a neat little summary...
Schenectady newsies, Albany corruption: 1910
It’s Schenectady’s turn. Apparently during his documentation of child labor in 1910, Lewis Wickes Hine visited the Electric City, too....
The City of the Dead
Albany Rural Cemetery pond, originally uploaded by carljohnson. This is the city of the dead As we lie side by...
College: shiny and expensive
Things I’ve learned from our ongoing tours of the finest scientific and technical institutions of the Northeast: Classrooms no longer...