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A Schlepp Through Schenectady - State Street
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View from the early part of this decade when buildings started getting demolished for the 'Metroplex' redevelopement scheme
Same view today
New state offices
State & B'way at the turn of this century
Today
Broadway (one of the narrowest streets downtown) 2001
Not much has changed
State & B'way 1930s - Woolworth's on left
State & B'way 1960s - Woolworth's first remodel
State & B'way 2000 - Wooworth's second remodel
A better view of the second remodel - building had since been converted to offices
State & B'way today - Woolworth's third remodel
Next door was a Lerner Shop and later a D&K dollar store.
mid-1990s view of the Wallace Block and Center City
Wallace block early part of this decade - taken with an Ixla SuperPro 640
Wallace block and Center City - taken around the same time with an Ixla DualCam 640
About the same view today - taken with a Kodak C763
Center City 2001 - an ice skating rink built in the late-1970s this was going to be The Answer to all of downtown Schenectady's problems
You had to schlepp all the way down to the basement to get to the rink
By 2002 the ice rink was taken out and it was converted to a 'sportsplex'
As of today they're tearing the whole thing down
Removing the whole 1970s addition
To build this... meh
At least the other buildings on the block have been spiffied up
moving on down the block...
I said... moving on down the block
A view up State Street at the corner of Jay Street...
at the shopping block between Jay and Clinton Streets
Which has changed considerably...
Only the one with the Boomers sign is original construction
The one with the awning wasn't there a few years ago
Real buildings - including one of the few Art Deco buildings left in Schenectady - were torn down for these
This mural with its depiction of the Trade Towers was also lost
The same block from a mid-90s photograph
The Fürherbunker - AKA the Albany Savings Bank
Now a Citizens Bank - the brown roof area used to be bronzed glass
Crossing to the south side of State and this 1980s view of the deadest end of the 'Canal Square' deadmall
Was still there in 2001 - including the Bauhaus-style store
That end of the block was replaced by a generic Hampton Inn
The old IOOF hall - now an arts center
Schenectady's first skyscraper - The Parker Building
Restored and converted to a deluxe hotel called imaginatively enough The Parker Inn
A forlorn view uptown and of a 1970s light standard
Whimsical decor for the unused Proctor's Theater ticket booth - you buy your tickets inside now
The Proctor's theater complex - the white building with black window mullions used to be the Carl's Department Store
2001 view of the rest of Canal Square - they painted all the buildings on the block a dank brown and unified the façades with an awning and with interconnections between the buildings inside
The project was a flop and by the turn of this century awnings were replaced and buildings repainted in more festive colors
The Proctor's block in the 1960s
Same view today
State Street during a 1970s sidewalk fair - real festive
The same view today - they did some screwy traffic realignment to allow for diagonal parking - don't like
Proctor's block circa 2000 with a view of the old Hough Block on the corner of B'way & State
Building was torn down a couple years later
The same view today
The old Hough Hotel - nothing occupied the upper floors after it was remodeled for the Canal Square project
Its days were numbered by the time this picture was taken
It was replaced after a couple years of idleness by a cineplex - which had originally been slated to be built where the Hampton Inn ultimately went This article has been viewed 1071 times in the last 7 months Robert: 17th Oct 2009 - 14:20 GMTSurprised to see how much Schenectady looks like a mixture of parts of Brooklyn and parts of Queens. Comment on this article..[previous] :: [next] |
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