A view up Albany, New York's State Street sometime in the 1930s/40s/50s Interesting to note the Deleware & Hudson building didn't just serve as fancy headquarters but also handled freight cars on the side. Needless to say, there have been some changes since then...

Green Eggs & Ham

author: Franny Wentzel : Somewhere in Whoville

I am Sam I am Sam Sam I am That Sam-I-am That Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am Do you like green eggs and ham I do not like them, Sam-I-am. I do not like green eggs and ham. Would you like them Here or there? I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse? I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse. I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. Would you eat them in...

The Fire That Never Dies

author: Franny Wentzel : Iroquois Nation, North America

September 1987 article about the Haudenosaunee - the people of the longhouse. Supplement to this article.

Fire Engine at the Strip Mall

author: Franny Wentzel : Schenectady, New York

Emergency call at the neighbourhood strip mall... Blinkenlights panel (from another emergency call in the neighbourhood)

Cool Cars at the Bank

author: Franny Wentzel : Monroeville, USA

Chevy Impala and an oldskool Ford Model A hot rod

Gratte-Ciel Complex

author: Franny Wentzel : Villeurbanne, France

Built in the 1930s to provide a town center for the Villeurbanne community which had grown into a city of over 85000 was this Art-Deco masterpiece. Eleven storey flatblocks along a boulevard flanked by a pair of eighteen storey towers... Quite a contrast to the Ville Radieuse ideas of Le Corbusier!

Bekonscot, England's Toy-Size Town

author: Franny Wentzel : Bekonscot, UK

Bekonscot is the oldest miniature park in the world. It was begun in the 1920s as a backyard projects and - as this May 1937 National Geographic article shows - took off from there...

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