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Flopsie @flopsie.bsky.social · Feb 29

Now that hashtags work, @abbeyarletto.bsky.social and I will migrate our blog from tumblr. Let's see how this goes. Chicago and Northwestern R.R. Station, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ca. 1898. Photo Library of Congress
#milwaukee #wisconsin #railwaystation #trainstation #oldmilwaukee #history

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Flopsie @flopsie.bsky.social · Mar 1

New York, New York, November 23, 1923.
Ziegfeld Girl Miss Lucille Layton regrets never having taken piano lessons.
#newyork #newyorkcity #ziegfeld #theater #poorpianotechnique #history #onceuponatown

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Mar 1

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Mar 1

New York, New York, August 1943. Penn Station Waiting Room.
Photos by Farm Security Administration Photographer Marjory Collins. LOC
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#pennstation #NewYorkCity #manhattan #trainstation #pennsylvaniarailroad #history #onceuponatown

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Mar 1

Miss Apperson playing banjo beside a statue of "Flora" in a niche of Sen. George Hearst's residence.
Ca. 1895, Washington, D.C.
#banjo #musicians #gildedage #washingtondc #onceuponatown #history

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Jan 30

Flappers with felines. 1920s.

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Jan 30

Edwardian dogs (and their humans). Ca. 1900-1905

The Great Molasses Flood was a disaster in Boston that occurred after a storage tank collapsed on January 15, 1919, sending more than two million gallons (eight million litres) of molasses flowing...

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Jan 30

The Great Molasses Flood was a disaster in Boston that occurred after a storage tank collapsed on January 15, 1919, sending more than two million gallons (eight million liters) of molasses flowing through the city’s North End. The deluge caused extensive damage and killed 21 people.

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Sep 17

... What was then a practical necessity now is charming and quaint and the village become a seaside resort. The demand to stay in a boat house is so great that local authorities continue to build them as holiday lodges.

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Sep 17

In the early 1900′s, folks in the fishing village of Équihen-Plage on the English channel decided to put all the boat hulls that washed up on their shore to use, making them into houses...

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Sep 11

Lower New York, its great skyscrapers representing investments of untold millions, from South Ferry, 1904.

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Sep 10

A man, woman, and younger woman in front of farmhouse in east Custer County, Nebraska. 1888.

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 30

1 of 2. The Comet, Coney Island, New York City 1940. At one point, Coney Island had 11 roller coasters. The cylone was razed by Robert Moses as part of his modernization of the area. He derisively referred to amusements like roller coasters as “mechanical gadget” amusements..

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 30

2 of 2. ... and claimed modern visitors preferred the beach to the amusement areas. The only Roller coaster to survive is the Cyclone, which is now part of the new Luna Park. The original Luna Park burned down in 1944.

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 29

Glacier Point Yosemite National Park, California, May 1903.
President Theodore Roosevelt’s Choicest Recreation- Amid Nature’s Grandeur...

Stereo picture of President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite's Glacier Point.

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 27

American Journalist Harriet Quimby was the first woman in America to be awarded a pilot's license. and on April 16th, 1912, was the first woman to fly the English Channel. She was denied much of the glory of her achievement when 2 days later, the Titanic sank and dominated front page headlines.

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 26

The barn was on the property of a farm where Berg and Høeg lived at the end of their lives. A series of negatives in a box labelled “private” contained photographs of Berg and Høeg dressed in men’s clothes, smoking, and wearing mustaches.

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 26

Marie Høeg (1866 – 1949) was a Norwegian photographer and suffragist whose private photography, including images of and created with her partner, Bolette Berg, challenged ideas of gender. Many of her glass negatives were discovered after her death inside a barn in the 1980s.

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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 24

Oakwood, Ohio, circa 1920. Orville Wright, beyond all that aeroplane stuff, was something of an amateur photographer and dog lover. Here is his dog Scipio at his home, Hawthorn Hill. The Wright Brothers started building a home for themselves in 1912. Wilbur died of typhoid the same year...
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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 24

, so when it was completed in 1914, Orville moved in with his sister Katherine and his father Milton. Milton, died in April,1917, so Orville and his sister decided to fill the emotional gap in their lives with a puppy, and so came Scipio, a St Bernard in 1917.
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Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Pabst Building was built in 1891 as offices for the Pabst Brewing Company. Torn down in 1981, it was replaced by the PoMo box of the 100 E Wisconsin Building in 1989 whose design was meant show homage to the Pabst Building and to compliment City Hall just down Water Street

Once Upon a Town @onceuponatown.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Pabst Building, Wisconsin St, 1900.
Just something to think about as the Republicans yell at each other in Milwaukee tonight- Frederick Pabst was a German immigrant, His wife and brother in law Charles, children of German immigrants. Charles started what became the Miller brewing company

Pabst Building, looking east across the Milwaukee river, 1900

Pabst Building looking west from across Wisconsin Avenue, 1900