Posted February 12, 201411 yr Gloversville, NY Population ~15,000 (~25,000 in 1950) Within Fulton County, at the edge of the Adirondack Mountains. Close enough to the Capital District that an interurban line (The Fonda, Johnstown, and Gloversville Railroad) connected them to Schenectady until 1936. The area made almost all the gloves in the country here about a hundred years ago. Johnstown, NY Fulton County Seat Population ~8,500 Fulton County Courthouse (1773):
February 12, 201411 yr Both are looking a little rough--but I like them. The Gloversville library is pretty sweet.
February 12, 201411 yr My family has been going to Peck's Lake, which is in the Adirondack State Park immediately to the north of Gloversville, for as long as I have been alive (almost 43 years now). Unfortunately, both towns lost their primary industry (leather tanning) many many years ago, and like a lot of town in upstate NY, they have never fully recovered. As the pics show, though, there's a lot of historic architecture that's worth seeing. As an aside, you can still have gloves made for you in Gloversville. A few years ago I had two pairs of gloves made for me by a guy that custom stiches the gloves. He took a template of my hand and made them fit perfectly, which is great for me, because I have large fat hands which make finding gloves hard to do. It is also difficult to types;alkdsjta;lkdjkfds ;lkg gp8qtyp98goh[uy9a8guy
February 12, 201411 yr New York State has some amazing architecture. It's a shame these towns are in such rough shape. Great photos, though!
February 13, 201411 yr I don't think these towns look in particularly bad shape at all; though I wonder what that campanile (#6 from top) is (looks like a church behind it (?). http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
February 13, 201411 yr Summit did a nice job of capturing much of the positive of the two towns. There's a lot of poverty, however, since there really isn't a lot of sustaining industry outside of tourism. But, then again, both cities have been in pretty much the same shape for as long as I can remember, and people still live there, so who am I to judge?
February 13, 201411 yr Thanks! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 20, 201411 yr Thank you for this. I always wondered what this place looked like. Gloversville (and nearby Amsterdam...but more Gloversville) was the inspiration for a novel from back in the 1980s (but set in the 1960s, as the glove industry was petering out)... Mohawk, by Richard Russo: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12368.Mohawk
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