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• 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...

• The Coney Island Bowery

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 09:37 in nanowrimo, coney island, brooklyn history, nyc neighborhoods, 1900s resorts, old menus

  The Bowery at Coney Island was a plank street laid out in 1882 by George C. Tilyou, one of the pioneer developers of Coney Island as a summer resort and amusement complex. It was named for the Bowery, the oldest street in Manhattan - which by the 1...

• Justus For Hair

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 10:23 in old advertisements and products, brooklyn people, 1900s ads, victorian beauty, victorian magnetism and electricity, 1890s ads

  Dr. Justus August - who may or may not be the splendidly bearded man in this advertisement from 1901 (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 15, 1901, p. 31) - shows us that even over 100 years ago (and much earlier than this, too), people were concerned about...

• I Lift My Lamp Beside the Laundry Soap

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 14:22 in nanowrimo, New York City, 1880s ads

  This cartoon is from an 1884 issue of Life (Vol. 3, p.326): commentary on the plastering of ads everywhere in New York City which is relevant today, too. The ad on Liberty's arm looks like a tattoo, doesn't it? Of course Lungoria and Snook's Laundry...

• The Haunted Reptile House

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 13:42

  Charley Snyder was the head keeper of the New York Zoological Society - also known as the Bronx Zoo - in 1915. And he had a huge problem on his hands that summer: all the keepers of the reptile house were convinced that it was haunted by an unknown g...

• A Trumpet In Your Ear

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 09:51 in history of medicine, victorian medicine, 1850s ads, antique mystery objects

  As so many of you guessed, this lovely little silver object is in fact an ear trumpet. Possibly inspired by people cupping a hand to the ear to improve hearing, the ear trumpet has existed for centuries although the earliest print references date f...

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