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For months, there have been 4 individuals picketing the Price Chopper headquarters down the street. Their signs simply say, “SHAME ON YOU PRICE CHOPPER”. Today I noticed Price Chopper has hung a sign on the fence beside them reading, “WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS ABOUT — TEAM PRICE CHOPPER”.
Decided to walk around downtown a couple weeks ago and take some pictures. Downtown has changed so much in the last few years I decided may this and this may need a little update. All the new pictures are here but here and the new and old ones are here. Movieland opened in 2006 and it is awesome.
Ambition Cafe
The 440 Arts building is scheduled to be torn down. the former International Order of Odd Fellows Hall has an awesome facade but the new owner, Transfinder, says it can’t be saved with the upgrades it needs to do so it’s all coming down.
A freaking post card, right?
New Center City Bldg, corner of State and Jay
First Niagara Bank
Former Barneys, now Barneys Square
Parker Hotel So the new Shop Rite is opening tomorrow, exactly 6 minutes from here, and where else would it be the talk of the town? I guess with all the crappy news over the last month, people get excited about the silliest news, everybody except Price Chopper that is. Shop Rite is planning on opening a few stores in the area. We took a drive to Schoharie and Middleburg today and it was heartbreaking. These were just two of the many towns flooded out by Hurricane Irene a month ago and 80% of the businesses are still closed. House after house after house were gutted or just abandoned. The roadsides are littered with piles of debris and the yards were full of people working on their houses. The weather started getting cold today and I hope these people are able to get back into their houses before the snow falls. I know a lot of them are gone forever.
1291 Rugby Rd. Schenectady, NY…It’s been a Kentucky Fried Chicken in the 60′s, a butcher shop, a florist, a dance studio today, and I’m sure countless other things. Recently uncovered, they’re painting over this today so I thought I’d post a picture and subsequently found this old ad on Google from January 20, 1965.
The census released the local numbers for New York yesterday and not all is bad. All the local towns and even the cities that haven’t seen population growth since the 50′s have improved. The city of Schenectady grew by 7% while the county grew by 5 1/2%. New York City grew by 167,000 and the state grew by 2% to 19.4 million though not enough to keep it from losing 2 congressional seats. The western upstate cities were not so fortunate including Buffalo which lost more than 10% of it’s population in the last decade.
from dailygazette.com Loving Rihanna and The Go-Go’s today! I don’t think I’ve ever read anything nice about Schenectady in The New York Times until today.
Nice…
It’s been one year ago today that I broke my leg. It took a long time for me to get over it and it’s still not back to normal. I can’t run for any distance and it can hurt really bad if I lay on it wrong. It took a toll on me not only physically, but mentally. There was a day when I couldn’t make it up the steps without being out of breath so really, it could be worse. Google has scanned The Schenectady Gazette back to 1922 and plans to go back to 1887. It’s pretty cool just looking at the ads but I have already found several references to places I know and that are still around. The twenties were Schenectady’s heyday. This, would be awesome if it ever comes to fruition when The Schenectady Museum becomes The New York Science Center. 
SFD7, originally uploaded by schenectady2009. 
Schenectady Fire Department, originally uploaded by jeeptick. This is Fire Station No. 4 in our neighborhood back in the day compared to how it looks today. A lot of the old fire houses have closed or moved but this one still sees a lot of action. I think it would be cool to convert one to a house and live in it…
….and have a Happy Thanksgiving |
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