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