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This twenty minute documentary starts slowly, but dont give up on it: It finishes well! If you're in a hurry, fast forward to about the midpoint.
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watchmaking
hamilton
1947
Added: 13th September 2007
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This film belongs in a category for "The Absurd". The moral apparently is, in the event of a nuclear attack, be sure your house has "fire-safe housekeeping". Or this statement:
The heat from the thermal blast "only chars both [well-painted exterior] surfaces", describing the split second between when the heat wave hit the house and the shock wave flattened it. The so-called "National clean up - paint up - fix up bureau" who produced this film may or may not have been ignorant, but they certainly were counting on the fact that the viewers would be.
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1954
nuclear
war
paint
absurd
Added: 27th September 2007
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Posted By: prelingerfan |
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When you walk across muck, you can feel the soil springing under your feet. It's almost like walking on finely ground peat moss. Onions are grown here, along with potatoes and other crops that don't do well in soils where there are a lot of stones. This marker is on Route 98 about half-way between Rochester and Buffalo.
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elba
muck
agriculture
Added: 29th September 2007
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Swarts Tavern
The "Old Stone House" Was built about 1772 and used for many years as a tavern. During Sir John Johnson’s second raid on the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys the building was set on fire by Indians on October 17, 1780 while the family was in the safety of the Old Stone Fort located a short way away. Patriot Soldiers put out the fire. Building later owned 1803 by Peter P. Snyder and in 1833 by Lodowich Fries
Here was the scene of Schoharie County’s only duel, fought between Philip Schuyler 2nd (who was the grandson of Revolutionary War General Philip J. Schuyler) and his neighbor Josiah Clark. In the bar room, a quarrel ended in Clark's challenge and Schuyler named rifles and demanded immediate satisfaction on the flats in the rear of the Tavern. Seconds (trusted representatives from each party of the duel) were chosen, rifles carefully examined and loaded for their deadly work and the party repaired to the flats. It is said both were in an alcoholic haze but upon the order to fire, both rifles blazed forth and Clark fell to earth and his friends rushed to his side. Badly frightened by the sight, Schuyler fled to the Tavern but Clark soon revived, not a mark could be found upon him and it appears that he had collapsed from fright. In later years it leaked out that the seconds had carefully refrained from loading the rifles with anything other than plenty of powder and well rammed hornet's nest wadding.
Swarts Tavern is now a private residence located along Route 30 in the Village of Schoharie, NY.
Swarts Tavern - Schoharie, NY
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Swarts
Tavern
Schoharie
Guy
Johnson
Philip
Schuyler
Added: 3rd November 2007
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Posted By: Ohlhous |
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A newsreel leading with an assassination attempt on President Truman by "Puerto Rican extremists", followed by a piece about how well Puerto Rico is developing as a territory of the US.
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truman
assassination
blair
puerto
rico
1950
Added: 8th November 2007
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The BL&R Trolley - 1908-1931
Electricity had made its debut; and light-rail lines like the BL&R began to spring up to challenge the dominance of steam railroads. Electric powered trolleys provided a cleaner and quicker ride than steam trains; but the price of a ticket was about the same either way. The BL&R ran its 54 mile high-speed line from Lockport to Rochester. The trolleys were equipped with 75hp at first, and later with 125hp motors on each "truck" (four trucks per car). The cars came geared for speeds up to 80mph; but 60mph was the practical limit. In places where the BL&R and NYCRR tracks ran next to each other, races between the two competitors were not unheard of. (Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo R.R., Wm R. Gordon, 1963)
The years before WWI were the glory days for electric interurban trolleys: In 1915 the BL&R logged 1,474,750 miles carrying 2,033,749 passengers. A Sunday excursion to Niagara Falls from Rochester cost $1.60, and to Toronto cost $2.75 plus the boat fare (see below). After the war America began a massive program of highway expansion, which eventualy spelled the end of the interurban railroads.
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A Beginning and an End
The Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway opened on September 2, 1908 at Albion, NY (Albion was midway on the 54 mile run from Rochester to Lockport). The Buffalo, Lockport and Rochester Railway (1908-1919) was reorganized to become the Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad Corp (April 1919 - April 30, 1931) The Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad Corp. sent its last car down the tracks - the local from Rochester to Albion - on April 30, 1931.
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Toronto Specials
A brisk tourist industry developed on the back of the BL&R and its cohort the International Railway (seen here). International owned the tracks from Lockport to three destinations: Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Olcott on Lake Ontario to the north. Steam excursion boats met passengers at Olcott and carried them across the Great Lake to Toronto. Passengers who caught the early morning BL&R at Rochester could go to Toronto and be back in Rochester that same evening.
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AC vs DC
DC was all that was available when trollies were new; but DC was expensive and not practical to transmit over long distances. Early trollies were therefore limited to use in urban areas near to their generating stations. High-voltage AC could be transmitted long distances, but it was dangerous to use near people - especially where motors and connections could become wet with rain (eg. in trolley cars). By placing a series of substations in which "rotary converters" like the one shown here changed AC to DC, interurban trollies like the BL&R became practical.
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Freight Cars
The BL&R was able to supplement its passenger income with both local and express freight business, as well. The rates were in line with those charged by the competing NYCRR; and from the first, the BL&R did a considerable business hauling the fruit, vegetables and milk for which the region had become famous. Freight traffic was generally scheduled for nights, when regular passenger service did not run.
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BL&R
trolley
Buffalo
Lockport
Rochester
railroad
albion
Erie
Canal
trr
Added: 10th November 2007
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A "swell" story no-doubt written by some "swell" dad; but somehow the teens in this film managed to produce the baby boom generation in spite of it.
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dating
1950
Added: 13th November 2007
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This arch at Medina, NY carries the Erie Canal over the Oak Orchard Creek. The Oak Orchard served as one of many "feeders" to the Erie before the modern Barge Canal was built in 1905-1918, but as you can see here, the creek is well below the level of the Erie. The early designers had to go several miles to the south (creeks flow north to Lake Ontario in this region) in order to tap the Oak Orchard at a level that could flow gradually downhill into the canal.
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erie
canal
arch
medina
embankment
Added: 24th November 2007
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Produced by the American Can Company and narrated by Bernard Hubbard, aka the "Glacier Priest", this evaluation of William Sewards decision to by Alaska from Russia in 1859 starts slowly, but finishes well with good coverage of the salmon industry during the depression.
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alaska
silver
millions
salmon
glacier
priest
1936
Added: 28th November 2007
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Produced by the American Can Company and narrated by Bernard Hubbard, aka the "Glacier Priest", this evaluation of William Sewards decision to buy Alaska from Russia in 1859 starts slowly, but finishes well with good coverage of the salmon industry during the depression.
The two men in the thumbnail are William H. Seward and Bernard Hubbard (The Glacier Priest) respectively.
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alaska
silver
millions
salmon
glacier
priest
1936
Added: 28th November 2007
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