Tag: construction

Demolition of multi-story building in Glens Falls

Demolition of multi-story building in Glens Falls

View of demolition of multi-story building as three workmen watch. Undated, but sometime between 1959 and 1989. Carl Atiyeh Photograph Collection, Prints Box 4 #0003, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY.

Construction workers working on Glens Falls Hospital addition in Glens Falls

Construction workers working on Glens Falls Hospital addition in Glens Falls

Construction workers putting metal on steel girders for the new addition of Glens Falls Hospital, Glens Falls, NY, May 1, 1974. Carl Atiyeh Photograph Collection, Prints Box 3 #0010, The Folklife Center at Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY. Carl Atiyeh (1911-1997) grew up in Glens Falls, NY. He was the son of Nicholas and Zehia Atiyeh. […]

Robert Service doing maintenance on the Thousand Islands Bridge

Robert Service doing maintenance on the Thousand Islands Bridge

Robert Service working on the Thousand Islands Bridge. He and another worker, Donny Sanford, went up and took off the old aviation lights to install LED lights, lowering the old lights down on a pulley. 1988. Near the Thousand Islands, NY. Courtesy of Robert Service. Service graduated from Alexandria Central School in 1969, and went […]

Changing the lights on the Thousand Islands Bridge

Changing the lights on the Thousand Islands Bridge

Robert Service working on the Thousand Islands Bridge. He and another worker, Donny Sanford, went up and took off the old aviation lights to install LED lights, lowering the old lights down on a pulley. Service was the director of maintenance & construction and bridge operations. Summer of 1988. Alexandria Bay, NY. Courtesy of Robert […]

Worker at the Potsdam Depot site in Potsdam NY

Worker at the Potsdam Depot site in Potsdam NY

Tuxill engineering company worker walking outside of the Potsdam Depot. In 1980 the Potsdam Depot, now Mama Lucia’s, was moved to make way for the new bypass highway around downtown, to ease congestion of traffic. Potsdam NY. 1980. Photo courtesy of the Potsdam Public Museum.