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Post by fiona on Aug 22, 2010 7:41:23 GMT -5
This is a dormer of a building on Charlotte Street. Attachments:
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Post by fiona on Aug 22, 2010 7:46:18 GMT -5
if you look at the enlargement you can really see the details on the brackets and also, there is an air raid siren directly in the middle of the windows. Below is just a shot of some street level windows I found interesting.
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Post by fiona on Aug 22, 2010 7:48:45 GMT -5
some old windows. Attachments:
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Post by jon on Sept 1, 2010 13:47:44 GMT -5
Re the public baths, the '83 map doesn't show any labeled on Elizabeth St. behind Grace Church where I remember a public bathroom existing in the 1950's.  Public Bathrooms across Elizabeth Street from Grace Church on the North side of Elizabeth Street |
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Post by dicknaegele on Sept 6, 2010 12:30:40 GMT -5
Used those rest rooms many times while downtown as a kid. God knows WHO might be occupying them in today's world, haha. As a little boy my grandmother used to stand near the door and instruct me to yell my lungs out if anyone messed with me. I guess she would have then stormed in and beat them with her umbrella like Ruth Buzzy, ROFL.
The building just to the East of that was the old Utica Trade School wasn't it?
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Post by dicknaegele on Sept 6, 2010 12:34:16 GMT -5
Fiona, I really enjoyed the pictures you posted under your lecture thread. Great pictures of a grand old building. Still remember delivering telephone directories in those dimly lit corridors in the late 50's or early 60's with my dad. It actually took two days and two car trunk loads of directories to take care of all the folks at the Olbiston. I think my dad got a nickel per copy for delivering them. He was working nights at Chicago Pneumatic, and delivered the directories during the day for extra money.
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Post by Dave on Nov 7, 2010 14:40:36 GMT -5
Mother Lavender has moved to her own thread, "Mother Lavender - Hope Chapel."
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Post by Dave on Mar 25, 2011 21:04:28 GMT -5
I'd still like to know how Post Ave. came to be changed to Post St.
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Post by Dave on May 13, 2011 19:33:43 GMT -5
The Passing of Post Street.You should be able to read the facsimile below. Click on it twice if using Firefox. It tells of the impending sale in 1899 of most of the block surrounded by Elizabeth, Charlotte and Post streets to developers who planned to build stores and business buildings. Twenty-two black families would be evicted from their rented homes. Evidently, this happened before the Central Fire Station was built 15 years later. I don't know if the developers began to build, nor exactly when all the homes on Post Street (then Post Avenue) were destroyed. 
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