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