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Hype for the Future 251R: Schenectady County, New York
Overview Schenectady County is a notable county in the State of New York home to the City of Schenectady; the Villages of Scotia and Delanson; and the Towns of Duanesburg, Glenville, Niskayuna, Princetown, and Rotterdam. The eastern portion of the county, in the areas nearest the City of Schenectady, is home to notable community features and establishments such as the Mabee Farm Historic Site, the Empire State Aerosciences Museum, Union College, the Jerry Burrell Park, the Stratton Plaza, […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/hype-for-the-future-251r-schenectady-county-new-york/
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Sept. 25, 1970: A time when someone would write to the local #newspaper Action Line to figure out where Disney World was, or rather where it was going to be, and a local snowbird had the answer.
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"Let us show you a knife" really didn't take off as a marketing catchphrase. Let's bring it back.
#OldNewspapers #OldAdvertising #OldAdvertisements #Schenectady
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My latest #localHistory post looks at my hometown's biggest park, Collins Park, long a center of community along the #MohawkRiver. As some old pictures show, it was sometimes hard to tell apart from the river during floods. I also found a surprise (short-lived) race track once on the grounds of the park.
https://hoxsie.org/2026/03/16/collins-park-and-lakeview-park/
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How many runways can you see for Schenectady County airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectadycountyairport #airport #schenectady #usa #ksch #sch #aviation #avgeek vl
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How many runways can you see for Schenectady County airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectadycountyairport #airport #schenectady #usa #ksch #sch #aviation #avgeek vl
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Aviation weather for Schenectady County airport (USA) is “KSCH 071445Z 18008KT 7SM OVC006 03/02 A3012” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectadycountyairport #airport #schenectady #usa #ksch #sch #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl
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This is an old #rppc #postcard that I bought at a shop in #Schenectady a couple of years back. Fascinated with it but never sure just what to do with it. It's a real photo postcard showing "Dick on Mohawk River at Schenectady in 1917 while working in G.E."
General Electric's main plant was very close to the #MohawkRiver, and I can attest that even decades later, the river was subject to some mighty freezes.
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On my #Localhistory blog, I explore some of the history of the 1730 building that houses the cutest little library in the world (in my estimation), and one of the places that fundamentally shaped me. Here's the story of Scotia, NY's Abraham Glen house:
https://hoxsie.org/2026/02/18/the-abraham-glen-house-the-scotia-public-library/
#ScotiaNY #scotia #schenectady #histodons #libraries #PublicLibraries
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My great great aunt's house in West Glenville, NY, where I spent many summer days in the 1960s and '70s. While it had electricity, it did not have indoor plumbing. We had to draw water from the pump in this picture – drawn through shale, it was quite tasty (though the rag on the spout is to catch rust from the mechanism). After she died in 1985, the house was modernized and is not recognizable anymore.
#OldPhotos #OldPhotographs #colorslide #OldHouse #GlenvilleNY #Schenectady
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Downtown #Schenectady NY, probably autumn 1977. A dreary day in what was then a dreary place, even though I loved it. The Proctor's Theatre on the left has survived and expanded, the old local department store hung on into the early '90s, everything else has changed. The buildings are mostly still there, and renovated. Looking at this I mostly remember how bad the air quality was.
#OldPhotos #OldPhotographs #FilmPhotography #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #BWPhoto
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Combien de pistes voyez-vous pour aéroport de Schenectady County (USA) ? : La réponse sur https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/fr #aeroportdeschenectadycounty #aeroport #schenectady #usa #ksch #sch #aviation #avgeek vl
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My latest #localhistory post covered an #IceCream factory that ran for decades in an old school building in my hometown. They used some really progressive/aggressive marketing for the time, and featured flavors like "peacharoon" and "lalla rookh." If you guessed the three flavors in their "mystery brick," you won a year's supply. (And the winners were published in the paper, so their friends knew who had free ice cream.)
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How many runways can you see for Schenectady County airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectadycountyairport #airport #schenectady #usa #ksch #sch #aviation #avgeek vl
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My latest #LocalHistory post has more than a tiny element of #PersonalHistory, as it's about my elementary #school (and its predecessor of the same name). I was lucky enough to find some great #ClassPhotos and shots of the #playground, where I spent thousands of hours of my youth.
#histodons #upstateNY #UpstateNewYork #Schenectady #ScotiaNY -
How many runways can you see for Schenectady County airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectadycountyairport #airport #schenectady #usa #ksch #sch #aviation #avgeek vl
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Aviation weather for Schenectady County airport (USA) is “KSCH 231445Z 00000KT 10SM SCT027 OVC039 18/18 A2999” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectady #usa #schenectadycountyairport #ksch #sch #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl
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Aviation weather for Schenectady County airport (USA) is “KSCH 231445Z 00000KT 10SM SCT027 OVC039 18/18 A2999” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectady #usa #schenectadycountyairport #ksch #sch #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vii3
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How many runways can you see for Schenectady County airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectady #usa #schenectadycountyairport #ksch #sch #airport #aviation #avgeek vl
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How many runways can you see for Schenectady County airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectady #usa #schenectadycountyairport #ksch #sch #airport #aviation #avgeek vl
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What if Scotia, NY's Glen-Sanders Mansion had no Glens, no Sanderses? That's what happened in 1963, when Mrs. Pearl Sanders sold the historic house dating to 1713. For years, it looked as if the mansion could be lost at any time.
In my latest post, I take a look at the history of the mansion – the very symbol of my hometown – from 1963 until today, when its fate is again uncertain.#localhistory #histodons #scotiaNY #schenectady #SchenectadyHistory #ScotiaHistory
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How many runways can you see for Schenectady County airport (USA) ? : The answer is on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ksch/en #schenectady #usa #schenectadycountyairport #ksch #sch #airport #aviation #avgeek vl
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Back in 1963, residents of #Schenectady's Stockade were so dissatisfied with the look of a modern steel-and-glass phone booth on one of their most prominent corners that they convinced New York Telephone to do something about it. How long this alternative phone booth lasted, I have been unable to learn. More at
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My #LocalHistory website, @hoxsie.org, is now federating freely!
Happy to say that @activitypub solved a problem for me.
So if you're into random snippets of history about #Albany, #Schenectady, and #TroyNY, go ahead and give it a follow – it works!
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The first college radio broadcast, in 1920, was under the personal call letters of Wendell W. King, a Black Union College student, the chief engineer and an avid amateur radio hobbyist from the age of 12.
WRUC did an excellent job telling his story, including the race-based discrimination he faced at #Schenectady General Electric. You can read it here:
https://www.union.edu/news/stories/201708/making-waves-race-radio-and-legacy-wendell-king-24
#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UpstateNY #LocalHistory #SchenectadyNY
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#schenectady #soupstroll was off the chain—and had 3 #vegan options! Unbeetable won in our hearts. 🖤
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Writing about the Mohawk National Bank's great wig giveaway of 1970 made me dig into the history of the bank itself, which was established in 1807 as one of New York State's first four banks. It had about a 195-year run, then was merged into the usual non-local banking conglomeration.
Much more, including instructions on how to use the sidewalk teller, at the link:
https://hoxsie.org/.../mohawk-national-bank-of-schenectady/
#LocalHistory #Histodons #Schenectady #SchenectadyNY #UpstateNY #UpstateNewYork #UpstateHistory