Post by dave on Oct 23, 2016 20:04:59 GMT -5
I thought I'd start up some research so as to finish two more modules in my "Around Utica" presentation: "Cornhill" and "Railroads." And not on my calendar at the moment, but as I run into things I have a bucket for “Down The Valley,” too. That phase was how people I knew as a kid spoke of Frankfort to Little Falls. And maybe as far as St. Johnsville. If you come across any photos on the Internet I can use, please let me know. Any photo will do where something is obvious from Cornhill or the railroads that ran through Utica.
Here's something I ran across this afternoon in a 1924 edition of the OD, the announcement of a new Elk's Home in Ilion. I don't know when the present elk's home was occupied; it looks to me in photos like it may have been built as a school. In the 1924 ad I think half of the business well-wishers were in Utica. Not surprising since the full page display ad was published in a Utica newspaper, but I believe the two municipalities were closer back in the day. There may have been more commerce between them and I suspect more of the populations were related to each other. We had family in Ilion. My maternal grandfather and his next youngest brother ran a hardware business in Whitesboro that failed during World War I. Grandpa went to work in Utica, eventually opened his own furnace business with a shop in the back of his house on Steuben Street (next to the bar on the corner of Louisa Street, laughingly called the Hollywood for many years.) His brother moved his family to Ilion to work at the Remington plant. I’m working now on a piece about those relatives in Ilion.
The url below will get you the full size readable version of the Elk's 1924 announcement … readable if the scan was decent. It's a pdf.
fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewpapers%2520Disk2%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Observer%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201924.pdf%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201924%2520-%25203240.PDF&highlightsFile=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2Fhighlighter%2Fhits%2F1a52e5e1dce81437d450e0cfe74a0428#page=1
Here's something I ran across this afternoon in a 1924 edition of the OD, the announcement of a new Elk's Home in Ilion. I don't know when the present elk's home was occupied; it looks to me in photos like it may have been built as a school. In the 1924 ad I think half of the business well-wishers were in Utica. Not surprising since the full page display ad was published in a Utica newspaper, but I believe the two municipalities were closer back in the day. There may have been more commerce between them and I suspect more of the populations were related to each other. We had family in Ilion. My maternal grandfather and his next youngest brother ran a hardware business in Whitesboro that failed during World War I. Grandpa went to work in Utica, eventually opened his own furnace business with a shop in the back of his house on Steuben Street (next to the bar on the corner of Louisa Street, laughingly called the Hollywood for many years.) His brother moved his family to Ilion to work at the Remington plant. I’m working now on a piece about those relatives in Ilion.
The url below will get you the full size readable version of the Elk's 1924 announcement … readable if the scan was decent. It's a pdf.
fultonhistory.com/highlighter/viewer/?file=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewpapers%2520Disk2%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Daily%2520Observer%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201924.pdf%2FUtica%2520NY%2520Observer%25201924%2520-%25203240.PDF&highlightsFile=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2Fhighlighter%2Fhits%2F1a52e5e1dce81437d450e0cfe74a0428#page=1