WGY Food Stores ad
In case you wondered whether the WGY Food Stores made use of their connection to radio, here’s how their ads looked in 1931. Lower down in the ad (not visible […]
In case you wondered whether the WGY Food Stores made use of their connection to radio, here’s how their ads looked in 1931. Lower down in the ad (not visible […]
So, we found out there were WGY Food Stores, and as far as we can tell, those had some sort of association with the AM radio station. Well, then, what […]
It seems incredible that there was once a very large chain of grocery stores named for one of the first radio stations in the country, and even more incredible that […]
Well, let’s continue this bit of old home week, started last week, with this 1946 ad from Lathrop’s Drugs. Lathrop’s was a Rexall affiliated drug store with two locations in […]
So I’m browsing through an old newspaper from 1945 and I see an ad for a business from my hometown that I’ve never heard of. Admittedly, it was before my […]
When I was growing up in Scotia, there was an odd little gift shop operating out of a very nice old home at the corner of Glen Avenue and South […]
We know that Albany was in on some great technological breakthroughs – Joseph Henry’s discovery of electrical induction and creation of the first telegraph signal, John Wesley Hyatt’s invention of […]
The wide-ranging autobiography of William Henry Johnson is filled with reminders of how much and how little has changed since its publication in 1900. In the “Finale,” John T. Chapman, […]
If someone from another culture were to come here today, on this President’s Day holiday, and try to guess what it is we’re celebrating, there’s no doubt he or she […]
Yesterday we introduced the man who may have been Albany’s foremost citizen of the abolitionist era, Dr. William Henry Johnson, “an aggressive and intrepid advocate of the rights of his race […]