great opportunity

Great opportunity tonight to see "Odds Against Tomorrow", a movie shot mostly in Hudson in 1959.  Starring Harry Belafonte and with a great jazz soundtrack. It will be shown at Space 360, 360 Warren Street, 6:30 pm.
Warren Street is heavily featured, (a bank robbery takes place at 6th and Warren in what's now Bank of America).  Also, look for the grand houses that stood where the vinyl boxes sit now atop the hillside adjacent to the promenade.
As for the waterfront scenes, you won't recognize a thing----

under the linoleum

My friend Tim recently excavated seven layers of linoleum from one room of his house over on Union Street.
(You can count them along with me here:)

At the bottom of the pile were some old Hudson Registers dated April 1938, which he saved for me.

The wood grain from the wide board floors was stamped on many of the pages,

                                       

making for some interesting as-found faux bois collages.

                       


According to this ad for  Bresky's "Smoke and Water Sale" at 357 Warren Street (now a parking lot) the Hudson Playhouse was lying in ruins, having just been destroyed by fire.

Here's an old postcard of The Hudson Playhouse from its heyday.

I believe this was at 353 Warren, right where Tortillaville is sitting now, in the old City Glass parking lot.

Facade seems to be dated 1912, which would mean this building only stood 26 years (or - did they rebuild?...)

Other interesting tidbits include:

boxing bouts and cooking classes at City Hall 

A pet store on North 5th Street

as well as an American-Italian-Chinese Restaurant on the corner of State & 5th.

And Another Amateur Night at La Roma's, 225 Warren Street, 

with the Personality Boys.

mystery location

My (wild) guess as to where this photo was taken would be upper Columbia Street, looking southeast, pretty much in the location where the hospital stands now.  But it's just a guess based on the terrain---Would be interested in any other ideas/input....

(Click picture to enlarge)

Monday, May 17, 1926

Wow-- excellent weekend for finding Hudson memorabilia at local rummage/garage sales!  I got all this stuff in the last 24 hours....

Antique made-in-Hudson Gifford Wood ice tongs refashioned into a candelabra:

(Gifford had foundry here that specialized in ice-harvesting tools....)


1985 Fire Alarm Locator/Calendar, courtesy Register-Star:


Flip side is a calendar with reprint of the first edition of the Hudson Weekly Gazette,
March 31, 1785.

Ca. 1940 Elmer Swanson silhouette advertising thermometer:

Chocolate brown size 44 man's suit from Kritzman-Maskin Men's store, 511
(?)Warren St:


And my favorite, a tiny pocket sewing kit from the Orchard Dress Shop:

we lost another today

They bulldozed this house on Prospect Street today.

I have some interior pictures from 2007 that I will share later...

EDIT/UPDATE:::May 6: It turns out I loaded pictures on my flickr page in 2008, when previous owner was cleaning the house out.  Mostly pictures of junk  (a Hudson schoolteacher lived there), but kitchen pantry, stairway with stained woodwork, and  vintage bathroom...

Springtime 4th and Diamond