WANTED: Married Man

also, single man, on fruit farm.

The Warren Movie Theatre

Piggy-backing off of Carole's Back in the Day blog post yesterday, which mentions the adaptive reuse of a movie theatre into a motel (The Warren Inn) in 1958:

If you go into the motel today, this framed picture hangs on the wall behind the counter.

   The movie posters over the doors and far left and right are for John Barrymore's "The Great Man Votes", which was released in 1939.   The sign projecting out from the second floor seems to read "Reade's Warren".

Hudson Beach Combing part 3: Metal

(february...the month for tying up loose ends.  This blog entry should have been posted last summer...)

The metals can be divided into two simple sub-categories: the junk I bring home in my bike basket,




and the junk I must leave behind for future archeologists, like this portable typewriter

and this extreeeemly heavy rusty bucket of railroad spikes.

which was buried deep down in the sand when I discovered it.

Of all my metal finds, my favorite things are these little mystery trinkets:

which appear to be once-molten bits of aluminum (though they feel heavier than aluminum).  Some of them have a sort of liquidy, art nouveau feel to them. (click to enlarge)

I like to pretend the one pictured at right here 

was perhaps once a tiny pocket saint carried off to sea with some WWII sailor, and found its way back up the Hudson over the years.

the "My van Gogh" Show at HOH

The back room of the Hudson Opera House never disappoints. Always chock full of wonderful art by the local school kids. I really love these "my van Gogh"s.

A tree grows, but another old building starts to fall...

                                         2002:

2006:

                                             2009:

                                          2010

                                        
                                         Today, Jan 10 2011:

Roof Gone. Lethal combo of Heavy Snow and Demolition by Neglect?

Here is another Before photo I took in October 2009, taken from the front on Columbia Street.  This is on the 400 block, just a couple doors down from the Cannonball Factory.

...and one more from 2007:

And here it is today:

They're Heeeeeere

Watch And Clock Repair Shop, Warren Street: Ebay ALERT

There's a very nice little lot of Hudson ephemera on ebay right now, which includes a couple of rare interior photographs of a watch and clock repair shop at 331 Warren Street.

 I'm not anticipating putting in any high bids myself-- but I would very much like to see these photos make their way back to Hudson, as they're a great little piece of our history.  (It's likely the watchmaker enthusiasts will be just as interested as any Hudsonia collector, So- I'm putting it out there.)

Take a look at the auction HERE.  It ends tonight at around 8 o'clock eastern time, and already has two interested bidders.