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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Film Noir Hudson

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Attention to the oil tanks that once graced Hudson's waterfront cannot fail to remind people of the 1959 film Odds Against Tomorrow , wh...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Women's Fashion in 1905

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When Gossips published this image of the building that is now City Hall, which presumably shows the building soon after it was completed i...

Hudson in 1905: Part 61

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The following is an excerpt from the booklet Illustrated Hudson, N.Y. , published in 1905. CHARLES S. ROGERS--Wholesale Grocer. No. 743...

Friday at the HPC

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It is the Historic Preservation Commission's practice to hear applications for certificates of appropriateness on the second Friday of t...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Where Did All the Buildings Go?

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This aerial picture shows the Hudson waterfront probably sometime in the second quarter of the 20th century. There are vehicles in the p...
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Mark Your Calendars

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A special meeting of the Common Council has been called for Monday, October 29, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. The purpose of the meeting is ...

Hudson in 1905: Part 60

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The following is an excerpt from the booklet Illustrated Hudson, N.Y. , published in 1905. F. A. STUPPLEBEEN--Dealer in Wagons, Carriag...

An Image of the Past

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Yesterday's post about the Raleigh Dining Room , which occupied a building at 520 Warren Street now gone, prompted Bob Rasner to send th...
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Of Interest

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Dan Grandinetti, former Third Ward supervisor, former youth director, former mayoral candidate, former Hudson resident, shares his opinion a...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Hudson in 1905: Part 59

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The following is an excerpt from the booklet Illustrated Hudson, N.Y. , published in 1905. RALEIGH DINING ROOM--No. 520 Warren street. ...

A Place for the Police

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Once upon a time, the Hudson Police Department was headquartered at 327 Warren Street--then City Hall, now the Hudson Opera House. When Ci...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Election Day, November 6

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Election Day is less than two weeks away. For voters who will be away from Hudson on that Tuesday, the Board of Elections is offering four...

Hudson in 1905: Part 58

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The following is an excerpt from the booklet Illustrated Hudson, N.Y. , published in 1905. THE GREAT ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA COMPANY--...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Hudson Chautauqua

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A few weeks ago, the  Stoddard Corner Bookshop , specializing in manuscript Americana, upstate New York history, and nonfiction books, ope...

Hudson in 1905: Part 57

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The following is an excerpt from the booklet Illustrated Hudson, N.Y. , published in 1905. MILLER BROS.--Barber Shop. 508 Warren street....

No Sign of Improvement

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Buffalo Business First has a report on school districts in the Albany area, ranking them from 1 to 84. The school district at the top of t...
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C. H. Evans Hook & Ladder Co.

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The history of the C. H. Evans Brewery published yesterday didn't mention that Hudson's third fire company, founded in 1799, was re...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

A History of the C. H. Evans Brewery

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The following history of the C. H. Evans Brewery, one of Hudson's foremost businesses in 19th and early 20th centuries, was researched a...
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Hudson in 1905: Part 56

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The following is an excerpt from the booklet Illustrated Hudson, N.Y. , published in 1905. MERCHANT TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT--Solomon Br...

Hudson in 1905: Bonus

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Gossips'  "Hudson in 1905" series inspired Rudy Huston at White Rice to send this photograph of an item he found at a garage s...
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This blog takes its name from the 1848 novel by Hudson author Alice B. Neal. The original Gossips of Rivertown cast a gimlet eye on Hudson society in the mid-19th century. Two centuries later, the new Gossips carries on the spirit of the original, but in a different genre and with a different focus.
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