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		<title>Snapshots: Col. Barstow&#8217;s Private Police Force, 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 26, 1910- Caption from this Sun-Recorder photo: &#8220;Across from the Cathedral of St. Vitus on Lorimar Avenue, Col. Harrison Barstow demonstrates one of the new mechanical call boxes installed for his new police force, to begin operations Monday.&#8221; Colonel Harrison Barstow was a wealthy man who had distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War. Upon returning home, he became very involved in reform efforts, especially disgusted with the amount of graft and corruption in the City&#8217;s police department at the time. Unable to enact change- and finding a loophole in the city charter regarding law enforcement officers- he spent almost all of his family&#8217;s fortune in building up a separate police force, supposedly incorruptable. Two years later, the experiment failed, due to widespread charges of graft and corruption, violent fighting between his police force and the City&#8217;s ranks of official law enforcement officers and confusion as to the private officers&#8217; exact status, leading to many arrests and convictions being overturned. Many of the call boxes (including the one pictured here) remained in place, inactive, until at least the mid-1950s. The whole episode led to a tightening of rules at both the civic and state level regarding exactly who was allowed to enforce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Last Days of the Riverfront Transit Center, 1933</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/01/30/snapshots-last-days-of-the-riverfront-transit-center-1933/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April, 1933 &#8211; This photo was taken one week before construction was &#8220;temporarily&#8221; halted on the City Transportation Company&#8217;s (Now the City-Suburban Transit Authority) planned transit center on the Ostahanoc Riverfront. To be built in stages, the center would have facilities for regional and local buses, planned subway and elevated train lines and even an &#8220;auto-gyro landing pad.&#8221; However, an excessively rainy spring, leaks from the nearby Ostahanoc River and the economic realities of the Great Depression caused the CYC to suspend construction. This city did not receive nearly the amount of New Deal largess afforded its municipal bretheren. The site remained in a sort of half-built decaying limbo until 1949, when it was purchased from the cash-strapped transit company by the N.L. Lancaster Mfg. Co., a manufacturer of ball bearings, for the purpose of constructing a plant. The company went out of business in 1994 and the property has sat abandoned since then. CSTA repurchased the land several years ago for a new riverfront transit center and had to pay millions in environmental cleanup costs. Now that the site is ready, the once-again cash-strapped transit agency&#8217;s capital budget has become far too stretched in the current economic climate. Construction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Acting Mayor Larchmont Votes, 1914</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 6, 1914- Former City Council President and acting Mayor Walter Larchmont warily casts his ballot in the emergency election called after Mayor Jonathan T. Sanders succumbed to influenza in October. Former Deputy Mayor Sanders himself had taken over after Mayor Jonah Woolsey fell to the disease in September. Larchmont needen&#8217;t have worried- he was easily elected for this and two more terms. He died in his sleep of natural causes in 1929, aged 77. - RJ White [original]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Jack Johnson in Training Camp, 1911</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/10/02/snapshots-jack-johnson-in-training-camp-1911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1911- Legendary boxer Jack Johnson trains briefly at a facility set up in a corner of a former Methodist retreat camp, about ten miles east of the city. 96 years later, musician and former surfer Jack Johnson would play a concert at the QuadstatesEC Ampitheatre, part of an entertainment complex (including a small skiing hill and a golf course) located on the same property. - RJ White [Original]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Before the Great Downtown Fire, July 4th, 1911</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/07/02/snapshots-before-the-great-downtown-fire-july-4th-1911/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 4 ,1911- Mayor Jonah Woolsey (second from left) addresses a large crowd gathered at Main Avenue and Baylor (now Third) Street, during three hours of speeches in celebration of the holiday. Later that evening, stray sparks from fireworks at Memorial Park would light several piles of unused bunting afire next to the Geo. Hardlin and Sons lumberyard, thus setting off what became known as the Great Downtown Fire of 1911. The fire raged for twelve hours, spanning thirty blocks and burning over six hundred buildings. Amazingly, only two people lost their lives. The following year, the fireworks were moved to the City&#8217;s new fairgrounds, two miles outside of town. - RJ White (Original)]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Traffic Fatalities, 1946</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/05/30/snapshots-traffic-fatalities-1946/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 13:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April, 1946- In a public education effort to cut down upon traffic fatalities, a sign on the east lawn of Old City Hall marked the number of days between such events. From its installation in 1940 to its removal in late 1947, the highest number it ever displayed was &#8220;08.&#8221; - RJ White -Original-]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Wondrous Helio-Copter Float, 1940</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/04/25/snapshots-wondrous-helio-copter-float-1940/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 1940- Winning float in the 1940 Memorial Day parade, Manufacturer&#8217;s Division. The Samson Aeronautical Manufacturing Company&#8217;s entry, featuring a scale model of a &#8220;Personal Helio-copter.&#8221; Local aerospace magnate Lemuel Samson (he of the tiny homes of Samson Heights) would eventually let his obsession with this mode of transport ruin his company and deplete his fortune. It is thought that his experience riding in the model along the parade route that day was the beginning of the end for the Samson Aero. Mfg. Ltd. some fifteen years later. - RJ White Original Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Theodor Horydczak Collection]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: The (Proposed) Exact Center of the City, 1912</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/03/14/snapshots-the-proposed-exact-center-of-the-city-1912/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1912- A crew of county and city surveyors poses in at lot at 870 S. Harner Street, which would have been the exact geographical center of the city after the proposed Annexation of 1913. After a bitter battle (both physically and legally) with two of the eleven townships and villages to be subsumed into the city, the exact center of the city ended up being 1,053 yards southeast of this spot, where a brass marker, installed in 1916, is embedded in the sidewalk. In the intervening several decades, the center of the city has shifted and is now in the middle of a ParkSafe lot on Shannon Boulevard. There is no brass marker. - RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: Demonstrating the Safety of Vaccine, 1956</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/03/07/snapshots-demonstrating-the-safety-of-vaccine-1956/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caption on the reverse of the photo: &#8220;March 13&#8211; Dr. Archibald Vinson, head of the City Health Department, administers a dosage of polio vaccine to his granddaughter, Becky Simmons, in her classroom at Calvin Coolidge Elementary School, as a demonstration of his confidence in Dr. Jonas Salk&#8217;s new creation. &#8211; Harlow Barton, Clarion-Standard&#8221; In 1956, rumors and panic were running rampant amongst parents that the polio vaccine was responsible for a spate of cases of dropsy in area schoolchildren. The real cause was a small hepatitis outbreak, traced to a heavily-polluted pond in the city&#8217;s Roxboro section. - RJ White, Ray Ingraham]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots: The Great Flood of 1914</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/02/29/snapshots-the-great-flood-of-1914/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intersection of Ludlow and Barnham Streets, in the city&#8217;s Northside section, during the Great Flood of 1914. The late-January flood was a result of an unseasonable warm spell dumping the melted remains of the Great Blizzard of 1914 (which itself had also indirectly led to the Cronin &#38; Sons sawdust factory explosion) into the already swollen banks of the Ostahanoc River. The flood, plus the Great Downtown Fire of 1911, the Great Carsonhurst Tornado of 1912, the Great Tin-Cart Riots of Late 1913 and the deaths of two mayors from a flu epidemic in late 1914, helped to cement city&#8217;s reputation as a center for disaster and instability that would last for years. - RJ White]]></description>
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