Old Views

[WestmoGuy]

Geez, I'm not THAT old Clipper LOL

We lived there 88-93 then onto the country. It was ok there back then luckily. Went from that good old 40x100 lot to 6 acres when we left there. Now I've got no neighbors.

[Clipper]

LOL, I forget the age difference. We lived at 1141 Leeds and rented from a guy named Gabe Fondario. Yes, it was a great neighborhood back then. We used to put the baby (my middle son) in the stroller and walk to Dairy Isle over near Albany and Culver, or we would walk to Hanna Park, over Rutger St on warm summer nights, have a hot dog, and listen to the free entertainment. I sure would not do that today, haha.

[WestmoGuy]

I dont think there's a huge age difference Clipper. Just sayin....


Yeah we'd go to Dairy Isle, ride the bikes to Proctor Park, walk the dog.....

My grampa lived 1100 block of Jefferson. We'd walk there too. Now I have no sidewalks too LOL

[bobbbiez]

Apr 6, 2010 21:52:23 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

Apr 6, 2010 21:44:54 GMT -5 bobbbiez said:

Wow, Jon! Never knew there was one on Mohawk Street. Only knew the one on Bleecker/Jay street.

Great picture!

It was at the south end of the old City Hospital, later the Chicago Market.

What year was the old jail built and when did they built the one on Bleecker St? I can remember the one on Bleecker next to Empire Furniture store and that one looked pretty old back then in the 50's.

[dgriffin]

Here are excerpts from "History of the Sheriff's Office" at:

oneidacountysheriff.us/main/history.aspx

1851 The Whitestown jail is closed and a new one is created on Mohawk Street, Utica. This jail will be used until 1883. The Whitestown Courthouse and jail revert back to the heirs of Hugh White, as accorded by the original deed. The property and buildings are then sold to the town for use as a Town Hall, which is still used today. The jail is converted to a dwelling.

1911 A new county jail is built at 731 Bleecker Street, Utica. It is fronted by a Victorian house that serves as the Sheriffs residence. (A present day Utica Observer Dispatch article reports that this house was built in early 1880 and torn down in 1967.) Sheriffs receive no salary and are allowed to keep fees from serving legal papers and transporting prisoners.

1965, May Sheriff Archie G. Eastman dedicates a new facility at Judd Road, Town of Whitestown. It is named the Law Enforcement Building and it includes a jail and Sheriff's Department Headquarters. The Highway Patrol is installed in this new facility and radio communications are moved from the airport. The facility has 164 cells, 20 female cells and cost 1.7 million dollars. The Utica and Rome jails are closed and later demolished. This officially ends the old dual jail system; one in Utica and one in Rome.

1985, November Sheriff William A. "Wild Bill" Hasenauer opens a new forty-cell cellblock at the Oneida County Jail on Judd Road, Oriskany. Ground was broken in August 1984 for the $3.4 million improvement project.

[dgriffin]

I suppose this goes under "views." Here is the radio and TV viewing schedule for September 22, 1950 in the Albany-Schenectady-Amsterdam area. It appeared in that date's edition of the Amsterdam Evening Recorder. Click to enlarge! (Twice with Firefox.)


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[jon hynes]

Dollars and Doctors Not
There for Small Hospital

_{By MASON C. TAYLOR}

You have to be a member of the "over 30" generation to remember well the old Utica General Hospital at the corner of Eagle and Mohawk Sts. where the Mohawk St. shopping center is now located.

Primarily it is a charity hospital. It had only 93 beds, 22 of them for chronic cases. But it also had an obstetrical department, a surgery, and most importantly, an emergency room. It was staffed, on a volunteer basis, by some of the most elite among Utica physicians,

Most of the time, it had one or two interns or resident physicians, whose duties, among other things, included handling the emergency cases that came in the back door after the staff doctors had departed.

Its presence gave a sense of security to residents of East Utica, especially the poor. It also served the purposes of politicians, who could get their friends admitted for free hospital care and even major surgery without cost.

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[jon hynes]

IN THE LATE FORTIES, as we recall, it was taken over by Oneida County at the time the county absorbed the city welfare department. It closed down in the late Fifties after the new St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital was built, a big addition was constructed at St. Elizabeth Hospital, and extensive improvements were made at Faxton and the adjacent Children's Hospital Home.

Periodically since then, there have been proposals by various public officials and politicians that a new hospital facility should be built in that part of the city. The argument is that Faxton, St. Elizabeth, and St. Lukes' Memorial are too far away, especially in an emergency.

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[jon hynes]

LAST WEEK, this issue was raised again. Frank V. Andrello, majority leader of the Common Council, proposed that emergency hospital facilities be built in East Utica and North Utica. This was prompted by the announcement Aug 2 that St. Luke's was going to build a $720,000 emergency addition. Andrello said he couldn't see the sense of this, when the hospital already had an emergency suite. East Utica and North Utica need it more, he said.

The next day, Mayor Assaro got into the act. He said he was going to propose to the Midstate Committee on Area Wide Health Planning that it study the possibility of establishing emergency units in East Utica and North Utica, instead of St. Luke's.

The proposals may make points for them with their constituents. But they ignore the economic and medical factors. Such emergency units could cost at least $500,000 each. They would require four or five doctors to staff them around the clock. A staff of nurses would be required, plus X-Ray and laboratory facilities, plus beds for those who could not safely be transferred immediately to a regular hospital.

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[jon hynes]

HOWEVER, their proposals do point up the need for emergency facilities in the city. Demands on the hospitals' emergency rooms have doubled and tripled in the past decade. The reason for this is that when people can't get a doctor for a house call, they take the patient to a hospital emergency room.

In 1958 its first full year of operation, S. Luke's handled 2,332 patients in its emergency room. Last year, 15,827 were treated. In 1960, St. Elizabeth had 3,421 emergency cases. In 1969 there were 15,792. at Faxton, there were 3,085 cases in 1960 and in 1969 there were 8,652.

Another factor in the increase is that some doctors, to save time and to take advantage of the better diagnostic facilities available in the hospitals, will direct patients to meet them at the emergency room.

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[jon hynes]

NONE OF the hospitals has interns or residents on duty on a regular basis. They try to meet the need for emergency treatment by having staff doctors on call, or staying at the hospital overnight. But there are problems of a doctor's unwillingness to treat another doctor's patient without consulting him first.

St. Luke's is planning to employ four or five doctors on a full time basis to staff its emergency department, and guarantee them a minimum income of x-thousands of dollars per year.

St. Elizabeth also is planning a new emergency unit to be staffed full-time under similar arrangement. It does not however, have the funds at the present time. St. Luke's is going to finance its new emergency suite from endowment and other funds.

Faxton has no definite plans at the moment, other than to build a new hospital adjacent to st. Luke's Conceivably, a plan may be worked out for Faxton to use the emergency wing at St. Luke's. Or, there may be a corporate merger of the two hospitals.

In any case, it appears that the need for better emergency facilities and prompt, skillful emergency treatment will be met. But it is highly unlikely that it will be done through establishment of tremendously costly and inadequate facilities in East and North Utica.

Observer Dispatch - August 16,1970

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CITY MAKES CHANGE IN
GENESEE STREET PLANS
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Finds it Necessary to Reduce
Width From Four Feet to Three Feet
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DIFFICULTIES ARE ENCOUNTERED
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According to Original Contract
Work Would Hit Subway


Genesee Street, between Pearl and Washington, will be widened three feet instead of four. City Engineer Harry R. Hayes told members of the Board of Contract and Supply this afternoon. He claimed the production would expedite the work.

"Difficulties have been encountered." he declared, "which have been unforeseen. Making the width four feet means we will hit the subway."

Harry W. Roberts Company was awarded paving contract for this year. There was no other bidding.

Contracts for construction of sanitary sewers in Sunset Avenue was to be let April 23, 2:30 p.m.

A letter was read from the Syracuse Trust Company, trustees of the Mather Estate, owners of the Arcade Building, in which they were asked to change the areaway front of that property so as to conform with the new sewer and always, and taking for granted that the city would grant this request.

Commissioner Kemper of the Department of Public Works was instructed to notify the company aerate itself would have to bear the expense of such reconstruction and that if it were not done within 10 days , there would be no areaway It was at Wednesday's session of the Common Council that a permit was granted to allow an subway in front of the Arcade Building and this has not been approved by Mayor Gillmore, nor will it be according to the city executive until the Syracuse Trust Company apprises of its intentions in the matter.

Clarence E. Williams, corporation council, declared none of the property owners in Genesee Street have put in claim for damages to the subways in that street, due to the change in grade, and he couldn't understand why the Syracuse Trust Company thought the city would not stand the expense of reconstruction.

Utica Daily Press - Saturday April 19, 1924