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10-30-2012, 08:12 PM
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A Shorpy Picture of interest
October 1958, the set is nearly new and already the "D" is broken off the Deluxe script!
http://www.shorpy.com/node/13988?size=_original#caption 
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10-31-2012, 10:17 PM
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That website has some very interesting pictures. I have a feeling I'm going to waste a good part of the evening there
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11-01-2012, 12:21 AM
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I've been wasting a good part of every evening for the last couple years on Shorpy, facinating stuff.
It's really fun to try and find locations with Google Maps to compare with the old photos. A good example is this one, I located it with nothing more than the name of the town. Looked at an aerial view and took a guess that it would be located on a main street, found it in just a couple minutes, helped by the fact that one of the buildings was distinctive and hadn't changed much in 70 years. Gotta love Google Maps. http://www.shorpy.com/node/13971?size=_original#caption
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11-03-2012, 06:17 PM
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You have three buildings in the photo, from left to right: 1) Brick store front named " ? Billiards", a two story brick building with a single-plane slopped shed-style roof with two (or more) fake roof points on the street-side and two (or more) bay windows in front, with a plain window very close to the right corner. 2) The P.H.Smith Grocery Store with peaked roof and two chimneys, that is attached to a better built and probably older home. It is probably closed as it has had no recent maintenance and rot damage from clogged gutters. The back roof overlaps and probably dumps on the the apparently flat roof house below and to the right. 3) A two story wooden house with unique trim at a right angle (or approximately) to the two stores and one story below. Can't see enough of this house to identify the shape. These buildings are located next to a steeply sloping street corner or driveway corner going down hill. From Main St, downhill is probably towards the river. Today, almost all buildings along Main Street are set a ways back from the street. I give up! Where are they? How did I know that the brick store front said "Billiards?" Suspecting that Shorpy cropped the image, I cheated and went to Shorpy's original source and viewed the 46MB TIF full scan of original unretouched and uncropped 1941 Farm Security Administration 2.25 x 2.25 inch nitrate negative: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000052587/PP/ This is the search (October+1941+New+Baltimore+store+on+Hudson) that I used to find that picture: http://www.loc.gov/search/?q=October...ore+on++Hudson On the link to the image that Shorpy used, if you click view adjacent images (since you cannot search for untitled pictures) you will find an abandoned New Baltimore shipyard that John Collier shot the same month. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000052584/PP/ I had no trouble finding all three of those river-side buildings on bing.com . They are between Mill Street and the river. See attached then and now images. (On Google Maps, the building on the right of the photo is hidden by trees.) Re: Shorpy's comment on Nehi When I was growing up in the 1940's, my father often called the Orange Nehi Soda Pop that I liked a "belly washer." I asked him why and he said that they used to be called that. Apparently the company took their more dignified name after the new-in-fashion "knee high skirts" of early 1920's. I can't verify that my father (1894-1971) was correct here, and he remembered some things wrong, but he got many many more correct! Oh, by the way, here is an old photo time killer that will beat Shorpy: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/ and paste in the Prints & Photographs online Catalog search window: color separation negatives and click "GO" and you will get about 1911 hits of which 1,898 have color images. Yup! It has 1,898 full color images, most of which are over 100 years old! These images range from 1909 to 1915 and were shot in Russia. Most have positive images of the raw three-color B&W separation negatives, plus an as-found color conversion. Many also have a better looking second color copy with minimal corrections done. (If any of these these fail to open, LoC has a note that this section of the website will be down from 5PM USA EST Friday Nov 9 to Nov 12, 2012.) James. Last edited by earlyfilm; 11-03-2012 at 06:44 PM. Reason: Fixed bad link
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11-03-2012, 06:27 PM
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11-04-2012, 12:13 AM
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Ohhhhh......I believed the Farm Security caption. You found them, however they are in Ravena (Coeymans), NY, not in nearby New Baltimore. I'd noticed the Ravena sign in the window of the apparently closed grocery store and should have checked northward. Two out of three buildings surviving 70+ years is not bad! I was having a little trouble navigating on Shorpy and missed the comment links. James
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