When I get good and homesick for PA (like when it's 102 degrees in Georgia for weeks at a time), I go to Elaine Conrad's Wopsy site http://www.pennswoods.net/~econrad/ and look at this photo - http://www.pennswoods.net/~econrad/wphotos/WopsyViewCurrent.jpg Very, very corny, but makes you realize why the Altoona High School alma mater starts out "Blow, oh gentle mountain breezes." (Toldja it was corny.) Please let us know if Joe can figure out where Cloudcroft is/was. J ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "Judy Banja" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:41 PM Subject: Re: PABlair new postcards - Blair Archives Oh great Judy, just what I need--another mystery--but I think I will ask Joe Conlon, he and his brother are pretty good about that area. It is a beautiful cottage, and you know, I can picture it in that area, a long long time ago. I never pick up a prescription at Cricket Field that I don't think of the beautiful post card you have posted. On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:59:10 -0400 "Judy Banja" <[email protected]> wrote: >Dunno, Annie, and I've wondered about that myself. I looked him up in the >census, and only find him boarding at hotels in 1910-1920, I think. He's not >in >the 1900 census, that I could find, and there's a news article about him from >1899 here - >http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/blair/newspapers/am-1899-9-2.txt >stating - > J. T. Baltzell left Tiffin, O., on Wednesday for Helena, Montana. It is said >that Mr. Baltzell will open a large department store in that city. > >He's in the 1890 city directory as - >BALTZELL BROTHERS, (Charles D. Baltzell and J. Thomas Baltzell), dry goods, >notions, carpets, ladies' shoes, millinery, opera block cor Eleventh ave and >Eleventh st >BALTZELL CHARLES D., (Baltzell Bros.), r h 1227 Twelfth ave >BALTZELL J. THOMAS, (Baltzell Bros.), bds 1227 Twelfth ave > >Hard to imagine the house on that postcard could once have been a place at 12th >Avenue and 12th Street, isn't it? There's no description on the back of the >card, and it was never mailed. > >John Thomas Baltzell died in 1924 and is buried at Rose Hill. Notation in the >cemetery book says he was single. And he was one of the original owners of the >re-done 11th Avenue opera house when it opened in 1888, according to Blair >County's First Hundred Years. > >By the way, if you click here and do a search for Altoona, Pa, you'll be able >to >browse some really neat photos that are part of the Library of Congress' >American Memory project - >http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Architecture,+Landscape > >Judy > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: "Judy Banja" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 8:16 PM >Subject: Re: PABlair new postcards - Blair Archives > > >Judy, >Love them all, but have a question--where was Cloudcroft located?? > > >On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 19:07:57 -0400 > "Judy Banja" <[email protected]> wrote: >>I added a few new postcards to the Altoona postcard page - >> >>Sacred Heart church & school >>11th Ave, 1900-1905 >>12th Ave showing the machine shop at night >>and my favorite, the "Great White Way," Altoona's "Broadway." The marquee of >>the Olympic theater shows Richard Dix in Sinners in Heaven, a 1924 movie >> >>You can see them here - >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/blair/1picts/altpcards/altoonapcards.htm >> >>Judy >> >> >> >>----------------------------------- >>No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. >>----------------------------------- >>The Blair Co. mailing list has no association with the Blair Co. Genealogy >>Society. >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >>the subject and the body of the message > >Annie Whiteman >PABlair List administrator >Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz >Blair County Coordinators >http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair > > > >----------------------------------- >No flaming permtted on this list. This is a one flame and you are out rule. >----------------------------------- >The Blair Co. mailing list has no association with the Blair Co. Genealogy >Society. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message Annie Whiteman PABlair List administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair