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James Shanks in 1901: Justice of Peace for County of Dublin Managing Director Shanks and Co Ltd Mineral Worker Makers Dublin and Grand International Hotel Ltd. Bray

Among the Smith-Barry tenants evicted from James Street on Tuesday 17th December 1889 (according to Freeman's the following day)

Patrick Cleary, draper Michael Kennedy, provision store James Davis, stationer Danl(sic) Ryan, victualler Jas Murray, boot manufacturer Michael Cross, draper Widow Bennett, harness maker

We know that Michael Cross and Patrick Cleary ended up in New Tipperary. I wonder about the others.

There's a Boot man in the arcade, nearest shop on the right hand side of the other shot, I can't read the poster in the window, though. Royal Boots? Boland Boots?

Awesome!..photographer unknown?

come as you are. strange elevated track?

293 Bowery @ Houston, looking north along the short block to E. 1st Street. There's some kind of garden and a glassed-in apartment building called the Avalon there now (Google Street View). A little more about the buildings on the right: "Between 1884 and 1932, the Bowery YMCA, housed for a time at Wesley Hall (291-293 Bowery), also provided mission-style services and housing. Today the building houses a Tibetan Buddhist meditation and teaching center. McGurk’s Suicide Hall at 295 Bowery also became a rescue mission for a time during the early 20th century." www.placeinhistory.org/projects/bowery/?page=10 50 years earlier (1863), the same spot was the location of a huge hotel fire covered in the NY Times. The building next door (295 Bowery) was a tobacco warehouse heavily damaged by water during the fighting of the fire.

I like the el tracks in the upper left-hand corner. I'll use this shot in a lesson for my 8th graders in our New York City Unit.

Yes, the elevated tracks you can see in this pic were narrow because they were one-way -- the uptown el ran on one side of the street above one sidewalk and the downtown el on the other side of the street above the other sidewalk. Bowery is a wide street and had several parallel streetcar lines on the street in between the two el trestles, as seen here. The Bowery el was built in 1878 and torn down in 1955. McGuirk's Suicide Hall, at the location of the "RESTAURANT" seen in this pic, was a notorious theater/saloon sort of establishment that supposedly acquired its nickname because so many young women committed suicide there. Some of these buildings actually lasted until 2005 when they were torn down for the Avalon. Next block up is where CBGB's used to be.

A moustache was clearly the facial fashion statement of the day!

How that little apprentice(?) down the front must have longed for his own moustache...

Beautiful !!

Muy buena.

beautiful...