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Kentucky Wagon Mfg. Co. – 1879-present located in Louisville, Kentucky and made the DIXIE FLYER, HERCULES, and CROWN automobiles. Address: Kentucky Wagon Works. 2601 S. 3rd St. Louisville, Kentucky. By 1919, horse drawn vehicle production was curtailed except for farm wagons and in 1920 Studebaker sold their wagon works to The Kentucky Wagon Mfg Co of Louisville. In so doing, Studebaker became the only wagon maker to successfully transition to automobiles.. In 1916 the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company decided to go into the car manufacturing business and was renamed the Dixie Motor Car Company. It only lasted from 1916 to 1923. Only car manufactured here was the Dixie Flyer which had a Lycoming and Herschell-Spillman four cylinder engine. Company sold out to the National Automobile Company of Indianapolis.
This is from a large album of photographs* that was put together by an employee (or multiple employees) of Empire Gas & Electric in the Finger Lakes region of New York; whether this archive of photos was officially sanctioned or undertaken unofficially, I don’t know.
Most photos are from roughly 1916 to 1925 or so, with a handful from the 1930s, and document the men and women (mostly men, entirely white) who worked for the company as it built the infrastructure that would light and heat the homes and businesses of Auburn, Geneva, Palmyra, Seneca Falls, and many other communities** in that part of the state.
I am so grateful to my friend Rikki in New York for this album and for the kindness and generosity she has shown in both sustaining and feeding my interest in old photos and ephemera.
* Pictures of the entire assembled album are flic.kr/p/2p4H87P and flic.kr/p/2p4KGYg.
** From the Wayne County Journal of Palmyra, New York, September 13, 1923:
The Empire Gas and Electric Company was formed in 1911, merged into itself the Central New York Gas and Electric Company in 1916, and on November 1, 1920, the Company purchased the by-product plant of the Empire Coke Company.
The Empire Gas and Electric Company does the entire electric light, power and gas business of Auburn, New York. It also supplies without competition electricity to Geneva, Cayuga, Seneca Falls, Newark, Waterloo, Phelps, Palmyra, Clifton Springs, Lyons, Clyde, Weedsport and other places; and supplies without competition gas to Geneva, Cayuga, Seneca Falls, Newark, Waterloo, Phelps, Palmyra and Lyons.
With the exception of the season of the steam heating business, the Company's electrical requirements is supplied entirely by electricity generated hydro-electrically.
The estimated population served is 130,000.
Note to self: an apartment that has a fire escape with room for a sofa and chairs is just as good as an apartment with a patio, plus the added benefit of an additional escape route.
Thanks for taking the shot, drunk merv.
A large fire extingusher placed directly above the passenger door. Also pictured is the emergency warning triangle
Lily and White Blankey prepare for some science @ the Cade Museum Creativity Labs
...Clearing some old photos off the iPhone...
Detroit Bikes "Tour de Art", June 7th, 2008
This was one of our Detroit Bikes tour guides during the "Hamtramck Disneyland" stop.
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CSX Track Geometry Inspection Train W003 is seen in Fort Covington, New York on CSX's Montreal Subdivision moving over the Siding switch before reversing onto the Siding and tying down for the night.
Photo date - 2/15/22
Camera - Canon EOS 2000D
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CLT: Field near sister's home
Bruce helping Danielle with her helmet
Nikon D700 | Tamron 28-300@300 | Æ’8 | 1/160s | ISO400 | Handheld