Truck House

440 Warren Street,
erected in 1889.

bird's eye geek note

I've been doing a lot of cycling this summer, and one of my rituals after I get home from a ride is to map out my route  (different each day) with online software that will tell me how far I went, what altitudes I reached, even how many calories I burned.   Using google and its satellite imagery has a been a great tool in deciding where to venture next, but when I started to learn how to read weather maps recently, I made an interesting (to me, anyway) discovery.
Google hasn't updated their satellite images in our area in like- three years!  What up?

Check out upper Fairview Avenue, as it currently shows on Google:

Wasteland.

Now look at the exact same area on Weather dot com:

Complete with all the new bigbox crap.

Here's the Columbia Land Conservancy Area on Rod and Gun Road, as it appears today, with the pavilion and silo:

But if you were on your way up that road, and navigating with Google images - you'd think you were going to drive by a working farm on private property!

That farm hasn't been there for years.

I have yet to figure out how often the Weatherdotcom website updates their basic landscape satellite photos, which serve as an underlay for their weather info.  I'm guessing the websites probably have to pay a fee to the satellite companies to use their images, and then subscribe according to their need.

In any case, the current image for Union and First Streets shows an empty lot (now under development), and the trees on Union Street haven't been cut down yet.  So we can deduce the images are updated at least every few months.

 I'll be watching this area hoping to figure out the update schedule, unless someone can enlighten me...

Star Theatre

510 Warren Street, then and now:


Some old Star Theatre Ads
1927 Wings, with Gary Cooper:

1934- Tom Mix Western


1942 Roy Rogers' Sons of Pioneers


1945 Strangers in the Night

"Dinnerware to Ladies" ?Any ideas what this means?

In the Shopping District, Hudson, NY

Paula Again

Paula at Leon's Appliance Center, 433-435 Warren Street, Hudson, NY.

Ferryboat Landing, Then and Now

A larger version of this can be seen by clicking here.

The Ice King

I could be wrong about this one,

but I could be right, too.

Another one found in the Watnot Shop, which looks to me to be the Hudson waterfront:

"The Ice King" is the name of the boat in the antique (middle) photo. Probably taken in the late 1800's when ice harvesting was still a major industry around here.
Clicking on it will take you to my flickr page, where you can view in high resolution (choose "all sizes"). The gentlemen on the boat are very nicely dressed with bowler hats...

Propst Horseshoeing

Kind of a sad story about this old photograph:
I  found it in the Watnot Shop about 8+ years ago, when I was making my living selling collectibles on ebay, (and saving my pennies to buy a house here in Hudson.)  Subject-specific antique photos, such as this one of an old horse-shoeing shop--had the potential to bring hefty profits.  This one, however, only brought about ten bucks.

That's not the sad part though.
The sad part is that about a month or two after I sold it, I bought my house here on 5th Street, and, after studying the leftover jpeg some more, realized that Propst Horseshoeing had been located directly across the street from my new home (a fact I confirmed by researching old directories in the history room at the library.)

 

So, I sold a piece of Hudson history on ebay for ten bucks--- big ouch.

The good news is that the buyer was someone named Propst, so it's hopefully stored safely away in a genealogical archive somewhere, not my messy cigar box filing system...

Five and Dime

617 Warren Street, Hudson, NY

they paved paradise

View from Long Alley, 2004:
View from Long Alley, 2005:
View from Prison Alley 2004:
View from Prison Alley 2005:
(former location of Gold's Scrapyard, mid- 300 block of Columbia Street)

neighbors.

Recognize this place?

I'll give you a hint:

Now and Then: Columbia and First streets, Hudson, NY

Columbia and first sts, hudson, NY. now and then (1953 and 2008)
Originally uploaded by fiveanddiamond

Special Thanks to Alex Brown and Paula Mickle (the girl in photos) for letting me use their vintage photos for my ongoing Now and Then project. (Dis-honorable mention to urban renewal for tearing down all the old buildings).
Below is my photoshop collage.