Showing posts with label garage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garage. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

more of the unusual from the 100 year old hardware company mail order catalog, and there was so much lead and asbestos in everything


If you take the time to read those pesticides... or just look at the last one, 40% Arsenic Oxide



Interesting wheelbarrow design on the right


red rubber toilet plungers... have been around FOREVER! 


I've never heard of a shutter dog



Remember some of those key shapes








a great selection of garage door designs, I like the one that rolls sideways down the garage wall



Ever heard of the tv show "Get Smart" cone of silence? Did it get it's name from the "Dome of Silence?" 



and this was mail order toilet paper for residential or commercial





how nuts are the contents of a hardware catalog when there is a bottle of golf ball white? 


I only ever heard of Ray O Vac batteries... wall putty? huh! 


like I said, everything had asbestos






I had to look up Fitch Hair... it's weasel/stoat/ferret/polecat, does anyone want to guess how many critters they had to shave to make paintbrushes in mass production



How the hell did they get badgers to sit still in the barbers chair for a close enough shave to make paint brushes? 


ever heard of a ladder jack?


or these ladder steps for round rungs? 


And it wasn't called a beer tap, it was known as a "wood faucet" 


imagine a gas powered clothes iron? and they weren't called clothes irons... they were "sad irons" 



I imagine if these were effective, they would still be commonly used, ergo they weren't because they aren't or inversely, aren't because they weren't


I was fascinated by these... I haven't seen any in use since the 70s


song restorer? How about that... anyone that has a bird, would want them noisier? 


another one I looked up, they used cuttlefish bones for bird food. how the hell did they get rid of enough cuttlefish carcasses to get a good supply of ground bones? 

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

when it comes to bridges, what is more unusual and rare, then a cast iron private one, over a public street, in a major city? Oh, and it's got a 3 car garage. Except no one wants to live there, everyone only wants to flip it


The 118-year-old bridge, which picturesquely hovers above a cobblestone street that was a private access lane to the horse stables of wealthy Hudson Street residents in the early 1800s, connects a landmarked four-story mansion with a private 1,200-square-foot rooftop terrace to a loft across the street. 

The landmarked property also features a private three-car garage — and more than 4,000 square feet of air rights.
 




the 1907 townhouse on the west side of the bridge – 9 Jay – was originally the carriage house for the building on the east side of it – 67 Hudson – which, when it was built in 1900, was a branch of the New York Hospital. 

Ambulances pulled into the Jay Street building and patients were taken upstairs and across the bridge to the hospital.

The previous owners (billionaire real estate types) bought it in 2022 for $20 million and figured someone else will pay more if this gets better publicity, so they've listed it for a 10 million dollar mark up at $29.95M. 

Before that, it languished on the market for years. It was first listed in 2015 by an American fashion designer from the ‘90s who bought 9 Jay (
which came with the bridge) in 1985 for $499,000, in a bidding war with Andy Warhol.

He then bought 3A and 3B at 67 Hudson for $300,000, combining those two apartments and completing the connection to the townhouse. 


the New York Hospital built the impressive structure at 67 Hudson a decade before hospital administrators decided that a separate building was needed for a laundry and the horse-drawn ambulances that clattered about the cobblestone streets to meet all emergencies. 

The hospital put up the three-story structure across Staple Street and linked the two buildings with the cast iron bridge.


https://tribecacitizen.com/2025/11/18/staple-street-skybridge-is-for-sale-again/