Last week scanned some odd things. First was Railway Life from August 1928. It was a magazine for employees of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway. There are pictures of employees from around the system. there are 3 pages of crew on runs and the time it took them to do the run. There is …
I scanned 3 more items last week. First is Penfield Directory, 1951, sponsored by Penfield Rotary Club. I have a few more of these for other years from the 50s and 60s but I doubt that I will scan them. That’s because after I scanned this one I noticed that the house and business directories …
Last week the Local History Division of the Rochester Public Library published the second of a two part article on Railroads in Rochester. Part One covers from the early days up until after the Civil War. Part Two tells of the expansion in the late 1800s up until the automobile changed transportation in Rochester and …
I uploaded three programs for the Rochester Auto Show: 1954 Rochester Auto Show. 1957 Rochester Auto Show. 1958 Rochester Auto Show. The 1954 program had an ad for the Corvette. It had been introduced in 1953 but only 700 were made and all were white. In 1954 they made it available in red, white, blue …