Author: Diana S. WaitePublisher: Mount Ida Press
ISBN: 9780962536816
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Albany Architecture
Author: Diana S. WaitePublisher: Mount Ida Press
ISBN: 9780962536816
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Architects in Albany
Author: Diana S. WaitePublisher: Mount Ida Press
ISBN: 9780962536861
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Albany, Capital City on the Hudson
Author: John J. McEnenyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood
Author: A.J. AlbanyPublisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1935639773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of life at all too early an age, A.J. Albany guides us through dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood shadowy underbelly and beyond. A. J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe played with the likes of Charles Mingus, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker, but between gigs he slipped into drug-induced obscurity. It was during these times that his daughter knew him best. After her mother disappeared, six-year-old Amy Jo and her charming, troubled father set up housekeeping in a seamy Hollywood hotel. While Joe finished a set in some red-boothed dive, chances were you'd find Amy curled up to sleep on someone's fur coat, clutching a 78 of Louis Armstrong's "Sugar Blues" or, later, a photograph of the man himself, inscribed, "To little Amy Jo, always in love with you--Pops." Wise beyond her years and hip to the unpredictable ways of Old Lady Life at all too early an age, A. J. Albany guides us through the dope and deviance of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Hollywood's shadowy underbelly and beyond. What emerges is a raw, gripping, and surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a young girl trying to survive among the outcasts, misfits, and artists who surrounded her.
Albany
Author: Karen SorensenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738547671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Located directly across San Francisco Bay from the famous Golden Gate, the small city of Albany has a history far larger than its size would suggest. Just one-and-a-half-miles square, the Albany area has been the home of many diverse people and interests. The first inhabitants were the Huchiun Indians, followed by the Peralta family and their vast Rancho San Antonio. The Gold Rush brought new settlers and dynamite manufacturers, an incompatible pairing that could not last. Albany's population swelled after the great 1906 earthquake, when many San Franciscans moved to the East Bay. By the 1920s, new homes built by well-known developers like C. M. MacGregor attracted many more families. During World War II, Albany's population expanded yet again with the influx of shipyard workers housed at Codornices Village, now known as University Village. Albany has evolved to keep pace with modern times but also has maintained much of its small-town, familyfriendly character, a combination that makes it one of the most soughtafter locations along the East Bay shore.
Bi-centennial History of Albany
Author: George Rogers HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
An Albany Girlhood
Author: Huybertie Pruyn HamlinPublisher: Washington Park Press
ISBN: 9780960546091
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Albany, Capital City on the Hudson
Author: John J. McEnenyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Traces over 300 years of the city's colorful history, from Dutch farming and fur trading post to the culturally diverse, dynamic capital of one of the nation's most powerful states. John J. McEneny captures the flavor and spirit of this dynamic multi-cultural capital city with intriguing details and an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Kennedy.
Possessing Albany, 1630-1710
Author: Donna MerwickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth-century New York took hold of the New World. As the author reminds us, the Dutch understood themselves to be republican, urban, mobile, mercantile, and amphibious; in short, properly Dutch. She shows how the Dutch possessed the land, traded over it, surrendered it to the English, and then lived out their lives balancing a "gaze" that the conquerors had for land against their own.
Wicked Albany
Author: Frankie Y. BaileyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614232849
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Albany, New York, experienced massive upheaval when the Volstead Act of 1919 established Prohibition. Crime already proliferated in the capital of the Empire State, with rival political machines stooping to corruption and the mob with their heavy-handed powers of persuasion. As it did nationwide, Prohibition in Albany served merely to force alcohol-related commerce underground and lawlessness and violence to the forefront of city activity.