Last week, Paul Dorpat issued a challenge: he had several pictures taken down near Gas Works in Wallingford from near the the turn of the century (no, not this turn of the century, last turn of the century), and wanted to see if readers could figure out exactly where they were taken. The prizes: copies of Paul's book and jars of honey from Wallyhood's own backyard bee hives. We've had some great and well thought out suggestions (including, as we had…
Occasional Wallyhood contributor and constant Wallingford historian Paul Dorpat wrote us recently with a challenge: Below are two photographs, one map and a Wallyhood reader challenge. The map is a 1912 Baist Real Estate Map that shows the Gas Works Point (aka Wallingford Peninsula) still with the old street names. Part of the challenge is that I will not update the names, but there are enough clues or evidences in the map to make the "translations" or name changes possible for…
Rochelle forwarded us a link to this post by Jonathan Shipley on the Vintage Seattle blog, a look inside life at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Ave N) back when it was a "home for wayward girls": Residents, in those early days, rarely left the grounds, could not excuse themselves from the nuns sharing with them those experiences of sweet virtue. Bars were in the windows. There was strict adherence to scheduled – waking, teaching, working at the laundry downstairs,…