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• The Inexhaustible Cow

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 08:49 in coney island, brooklyn history, brooklyn daily eagle, victorian oddities

  One of the many attractions at Coney Island in the late 19th century was a tireless mechanical wooden cow which dispensed glasses of milk, served by costumed dairy maids, who unfortunately cannot been seen in this charming late-Victorian stereograph...

• Afternoon Tea at the Claremont Inn

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 10:44 in New York City, historic buildings, old houses, old new york city, historic inns, lost new york

  This beautiful inn is long gone, but in the 1930s the Claremont still stood at Riverside Drive and 125th Street, just opposite Grant's Tomb. According to Helen Worden in This Is New York (1939), you could have lunch or afternoon tea on the terrace ov...

• Le Flou-Flou

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 10:48 in fashion history, victorian fashion, victorian inventions, 1890s ads

  The plan today was to write about some of the research that I'm doing for my NaNoWriMo novel, which is set in 1896 in Brooklyn and New York City. However, I'll be getting to more research after I hit the 50,000 word mark. I hope to make it to that p...

• The Quintessence Of Petroleum

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 16:47 in history of medicine, 1880s ads, victorian everyday life

  Here is Petrolina, an 1880s rival of Vaseline, a petroleum jelly invented by Robert Chesebrough in the 1870s. It is still widely used for everything from lip balm to eye makeup removal. What is amusing about Petrolina is the name - the oil-refinery t...

• The Mystery of the Catacombs in Manhattan

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 13:03 in churches, historic buildings, nyc neighborhoods, history mysteries, new york ghosts

  This really is a history mystery, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to confirm or deny this (actually, I hope that it is true). Back when Frozen Charlotte (my NaNoWriMo mystery) was in a previous incarnation as The Black Mirror (which draft w...

• Amazing Inventions From 1909

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 10:18 in inventions, oddities, 1910s popular culture

  This has nothing to do with Brooklyn or mysteries. There will be more of that next week but too much of the same thing makes even someone very interested in, just for example, Brooklyn and mysteries (i.e. me) just a little bit - bored! And it's Frid...

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