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Jul 21
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Church to be Demolished to Expand Store WNYT-TV, Albany, NY – 07/20/2010 – Subrina Dhammi Fonda, NY – For the first time in about 170 years, there will no longer be a place of worship at 42 W. Main Street in Fonda. In 1842, a group of methodists built a small wooden church at that [...]
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Jun 17
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Photo album from family of Hamilton Giles Fonda of DuQuoin, IL: Photo (scan) credit Jon Yinger (album owner). The photographer is Mangolds, Mangold and Cochran and City Gallery of DuQuoin and R.F. Adams of St. Louis, MO. The current album owner is interested in finding any family descendants. Tags: History, Midwest, Migrations, Portrait Related posts [...]
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Jun 17
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The Fonda Family of Chattanooga, Tennessee Obituary from Chattanooga Times, 10 Jun 1922 – Jeremiah D. Fonda, 89, died yesterday morning at 8:10 o’clock at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Sue Fonda Scholze, at 1017 St. Elmo Ave, St. Elmo. Mr. Fonda leaves two daughters, Mrs. Sue Fonda Scholze, and Mrs. Lottie I. Boyce, [...]
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Jun 03
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Casting Bits: Hope Davis, James Rebhorn and Olga Fonda Join Real Steel slashfilm.com – June 1, 2010 Hope Davis (About Schmidt), James Rebhorn (Independence Day, The Game) and Olga Fonda (Love Hurts) has been cast in Shawn Levy’s futuristic robot boxing movie Real Steel. No word on what roles they will play. Former Winthrop exchange [...]
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May 30
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A moment in history… Fonda, NY Train Wreck “The wreck occurred on July 18, 1947 at Fonda, NY. My grandfather was the engineer operating engine number 2775, an L2a Mohawk I believe. He was the only one injured. It tied up all four tracks of the mainline for quite some time. He said the tower [...]
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May 30
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A moment in history… Hotel Roy Burned Fonda Landmark Destroyed – Night Porter Injured While Escaping Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY, 26 Jan 1909 Fonda, NY – Jan 26 — The most disastrous fire that has visited this village since 1899 was discovered about 2 p.m. yesterday in Hotel Roy. The fire was first discovered by [...]
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May 03
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Queen of the workout video Jane Fonda gets back in the old routine By Daily Mail Reporter – Last updated at 1:47 AM on 3rd May 2010 It takes more than hip and knee replacement surgeries to stop the queen of the workout video. Jane Fonda defied her 72 years at the weekend, sliding into [...]
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Apr 28
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ESS EXTRA!! – Fonda Speedway, Fonda, NY Empire Super Sprints – April 25, 2010 – by Dean Reynolds The “Track of Champions” continues to thrive in Upstate, NY under the promotions of Ric and Laura Lucia and the race directing of Marty Beberwyck. While many tracks are pulling back the reins with the state of [...]
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Apr 23
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Possibility In Objects Gioia Fonda transforms gutter garbage into art By Stephanie Rodriguez on 4-22-2010 Ordinary hurricane fence morphs into happy orange flowers, familiar green baskets that once held strawberries transform into whimsical city skylines and forks found abandoned in Sacramento’s gutters glisten brightly. These are Sacramento City College assistant art professor Gioia Fonda’s recycled [...]
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Apr 20
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A Most Unfortunate Ending Here’s an interesting series of articles I ran across… that might make a good story line for The Twilight Zone. The incident actually happened on July 20, 1866 which was a Friday… so it also qualifies as a Freaky Friday!! [There are some inconsistencies, so the story may have been embellished [...]
