Geneva1928Geneva Jan 3 The Rochester subway system begins adding ten cars transferred from the Utica city lines of New York State Railways, to augment its two cars formerly run on the Rochester and Sodus Bay interurban. Jan 9 Author Judith Krantz is born in New York City. Jan 16 Author William Kennedy is born in Albany. February Batavia's Bank of the Genesee is renamed the Genesee Trust Company. Feb 4 Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad interurban cars begin using the Rochester subway tracks. Apr 15 Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railway interurban cars begin using the Rochester subway tracks. Apr 17 Author Cynthia Ozick is born in New York City. Jun 10 Children's book artist-author Maurice Sendak is born in Brooklyn. July The Mancuso brothers buy Batavia's Buick franchise from Burt Welch. Jul 4 Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls inside a rubber ball and survives. Jul 6 The first all-talking movie, Lights of New York, premieres there. August Doctor Henry Ogden warns the Monroe County Board of Supervisors that Lake Ontario is becoming polluted. Sep 19 The birth of Mickey Mouse as Steamboat Willie opens in New York. Oct 23 The Marx Brothers open at New York's Forty-fourth Street Theater in Animal Crackers. Nov 4 New York mobster Arnold Rothstein is shot to death in his room at the Park Central (Omni Park Central) Hotel. Nov 6 New York's zipper, a news wire display device using light bulb animation, begins 34 years of service, at 1 Times Square. Nov 23 Broadway composer Jerrold Lewis Bock is born in New Haven, Connecticut. City The Goethals Bridge and the Outerbridge Crossing, linking Staten to New Jersey, open. ** An apartment building is completed at 467 Central Park West. It will one day be named the Warner, after a sculptor with a studio previously on the site. ** The Tudor City apartment complex is completed. ** The Bing and Bing real estate company buys the apartment building at 777 Madison Avenue. ** The annex to the Pierpont Morgan Library is completed. ** The first black tenant moves into Harlem's previously-segregated Graham Court apartments. ** The Gaelic Athletic Association of Greater New York begins holding sporting eventnx (later Gaelic Park). ** Apartment suites rent for $90 to $200 a month in Jackson Heights. ** Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center opens. ** Dancers Brown & McGraw, along with trumpeter Louis Bacon, arrive. Bacon gets a job with Bingie Madison's band. ** The New York Rangers win hockey's Stanley Cup for the first time. ** George Arliss plays in The Merchant of Venice, State A marker is erected in Silver Creek, at the former site of the giant black walnut tree. ** Republican politician and newspaper editor Clement G. Lanni hears Herbert Hoover speak to a group of foreign language editors, returns to Rochester to endorse Hoover against Al Smith. Coming in on Hoover's coattails assemblyman Cosmo A. Cilano advances to the state senate and Dr. Richard Leonardo becomes coroner. ** Hillside, the Wyoming mansion of the late Professor Henry A. Ward and his wife the late Lydia Coonley Ward, is sold. ** The approximate date Genesee County's West Batavia and Daws Corners post offices are shut down. ** The Rochester & Eastern Rapid Railway interurban begins issuing 54-trip ticket books to entice conmmuters. ** Schenectady's television station WGY goes on the air, producing programming three days a week. Rochester Stephen B. Story becomes the city's first city manager. ** The city places a watchman in the Lincoln-Alliance Bank tower to watch for smokestack emissions. ** The Port of Rochester's imports reach $1,818,371. ** The owners of the Corinthian Theater consider remodeling the building as a five-story parking garage. ** The Chamber of Commerce invites the city's Italian community to participate in the city's annual Community Music Festival and Homelands Exhibit. ** The Renaissance Club of East High School presents the first of a series of Italian plays. 1929 January Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as governor of New York. Jan 1 The U. S. and Canada sign an agreement to preserve Niagara Falls. Jan 14 George Gershwin's Strike Up the Band opens on Broadway. Jan 19 The jazz opera Johnny Spielt Auf opens at New York's Metropolitan Opera, is a big hit. Jan 25 Members of the New York Stock Exchange are requested to authorize 275 additional seats. Jan 29 Aviatrix Amelia Earhart lands her tri-motor Fokker the Friendship at Le Roy's Donald Woodward Airport. Feb 4 Captain Frank Hawks flies from New York to Los Angeles in a record 18 hours and 22 minutes. Mar 12 Governor Roosevelt advocates state-built dams. Mar 26 The New York Stock Exchange goes into a downturn, then rallies. Apr 1 New York Stock Exchange prices drop sharply. Apr 5 Mary Pickford opens in New York in Coquette. Apr 17 Babe Ruth marries former Ziegfeld Follies performer Claire Hodgeson. He hits a home run for her. Apr 24 Ruth Chatterton opens in New York in Madame X. May 10 Bandleader-drummer Melvin Sokoloff "Mel Lewis" is born in Buffalo. May 12 The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Jean Goujon's 16th-century Descent from the Cross. ** Broadway composer Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City. May 24 New York City begins building the West Side Highway. May 25 Operatic coloratura soprano-manager Belle Silverman (Beverly Sills) is born in Brooklyn. May 28 The first all-color talking picture, On with the Show, opens in New York City. Jun 29 The R. H. Macy Company announces the purchase of Newark's L. Bamberger & Company. Jul 13 A shootout at "Legs" Diamond's New York City Hotsy-Totsy Club leaves "Red" Cassidy and another mobster dead. Diamond and his henchman Charles Entratta are accused and indicted but are never convicted of the shooting. Jul 22 1,300 convicts begin four days of rioting at Dannemora Prison, setting the facility on fire. Three prisoners are killed. Jul 23 Colleen Moore opens in New York in Smiling Irish Eyes. Jul 28 1,700 convicts in Auburn Prison riot and set fire to the installation. Four escape over the wall. Aug 23 Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight, at Hicksville, Long Island. September Future Hammondsport , New York, mayor C. Arthur Niver marries Julia Bauer. Sep 2 New York to Costa Rica radio service is inaugurated. Sep 3 The New York Stock Exchange closes at an all-time high of 381.17. Sep 21 The Episcopalian Vestry of St. Matthews in New York City, upholds barring blacks from the parish. Sep 24 Stocks begin to sag in New York due to a surge of liquidation. Oct 19 A wave of selling sends the New York Stock Exchange plummeting. Oct 23 The stock market begins its crash. ** The first all-air transcontinental passenger service, New York to Los Angeles,with one overnight stop, is inaugurated. Oct 24 Panic strikes the financial markets - Black Thursday. The New York Exchange's ticker falls four hours behind. J.P. Morgan meets with other bankers to try and stem rumors. 6,000 shares of Montgomery Ward changes hands at 83, down from its 1929 high of 156. Broker Richard F. Whitney offers $205 per share for 25,000 shares of Steel, at 15 points above the market. General Electric rises 21 points, Montgomery Ward 23, A.T.&T. up 22. Seattle finance company secretary Arthur Bathstein shoots himself. Oct 29 The cornerstone is laid for Ralph W. Walker's Times Square Building in Rochester. ** 16,338,000 shares of U.S. company stocks were dumped. Nov 5 New York City Democratic mayor James J. Walker is reelected, defeating Republican Fiorello H. La Guardia and Socialist Norman Thomas. He will serve through1932. Nov 8 New York's Museum of Modern Art opens with an exhibit of Impressionist Art. Nov 9 James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Company, shoots himself. Nov 11 A new selling rush sends New York stocks plunging again. Nov 16 New York City's radio station WEAF presents Madame Butterfly, the first Puccini broadcast. Nov 27 Cole Porter's musical Fifty Million Frenchmen opens on Broadway. Dec 11 Eight convicts are killed when the warden of Auburn Prison is rescued - the second riot for the prison this year. Dec 23 Victor Herbert's operetta Babes in Toyland opens on Broadway. City The Beresford apartment building is completed.** Construction begins on the London Terrace apartments between 23rd and 24th streets and Ninth and Tenth avenues when builder Henry Mandel builds two rows of five- 16-story apartment houses. ** Trumpeter Louis Bacon joins Lt. J. Tim Brymn's band. ** The conversion to ground floor retail space at 777 Madison Avenue causes the corner entrance to be moved around the corner to 45 East 66th Street. ** Mayor Jimmy Walker conducts the marriage ceremony of comedienne Fanny Brice and producer Billy Rose. ** The show business weekly Variety gets out of debt. ** Damon Runyon begins writing stories centered on the Times Square area. ** Painter Jackson Pollock leaves the West Coast for New York. ** Sculptor William Zorach begins teaching at the Art Students League. ** The Little Show musical revue opens featuring Fred Allen, Clifton Webb and Libby Holman. ** Playwright Howard Sackler is born. ** Poe scholar Thomas O. Mabbott begins teaching at Hunter College. He writes Poe's Doings of Gotham. ** The Marx Brothers work on their screen debut, Cocoanuts, during the day and star on Broadway at night. ** Military analyst Hanson Baldwin goes to work for the New York Times. ** Future reporter Homer Bigart enrolls in the New York University School of Journalism goes to work for the New York Herald Tribune as a night copy boy. He drops out of school by the end of the year and begins working full time for the Trib ** Paris-based U. S. photographer Berenice Abbott visits the city after eight years studying and working in Eurpoe, decides to remain and record its changing face. She brings her collection of The late Eugéne Atget's photographs with her. State Abruzzi immigrant Augustino Iacovelli moves to the Binghamton area, goes to work for Endicott-Johnson. ** Batavia box manufacturer E. Newton Rowell dies. His wife Martha May takes over the management of the company. ** Amelia Earhart visits the Chautauqua Institute, landing her plane near the golf course. ** Cartoonist Charles Addams begins two years of study at Colgate University. Rochester Irish Republic president Eamonn de Valera comes to visit his mother, Catherine Wheelright. ** The value of Port of Rochester lake trade reaches $20,472,916. ** The Corinthian Theater is demolished for a parking lot. ** Pasquale F. Metildi graduates from the University of Rochester Medical School with high honors. ** Alfonso Gioia is elected as a bank trustee. ** St. Francis of Assisi Italian Catholic church is established. ** New York State Railways enters receivership. ** The eastern end of the city's subway is extended to Rowland's loop in Brighton, its final terminus. ** Trolley service to Sodus Bay is replaced by bus service via Route 104. 1930 Jan 2 Pop singer Julius LaRosa is born in Brooklyn. Jan 30 Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder Edmundo Isasi "Sandy" Amoros is born in Havana, Cuba. Mar 5 Several thousand people gather in Rochester's Washington Square Park to protest unemployment. Mar 6 The principal excavation for the Empire State Building begins. Mar 17 Construction begins on the Empire State Building. Mar 22 Composer Stephen Sondheim is born in New York City. Mar 31 Corning discontinues trolley service. Apr 16 Jazz flutist Herbert Jay Solomon (Herbie Mann) is born in Brooklyn. May 4 Opera star Roberta Peters is born in New York City. May 11 Author Stanley Elkin is born in New York City. Jun 30 The Paramount Theater in Peekskill opens. Jul 4 New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is born. July 31 The Rochester and Eastern Rapid Railway interurban makes its last run. ** Canandaigua discontinues trolley service. Aug 6 State Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater enters a Manhattan taxi and disappears. He is never found. Aug 25 The Mid-Hudson Bridge at Poughkeepsie opens. Oct 12 An attempt on "Legs" Diamond's life in Manhattan leaves him with five bullets in his chest and forehead. He survives. Nov 5 Author Clifford Irving is born in New York City. Dec 11 The Bank of the U. S. in New York City is closed by the state superintendent of Banks. City Raymond Hood's Daily News Building and James A. Wetmore's U. S. Assay Building, in lower Manhattan, are completed. ** Manhattan's West Side Highway opens. ** The San Remo apartment building is completed. ** Henry Mandel begins the second phase of his London Terrace, beginning construction on pairs of 18-story apartment houses at Ninth and Tenth avenues. ** Circulation of the Daily News reaches 1,300,000. ** The city's population reaches 6,000,000. 96% live in apartment buildings. ** The New Yorker publishes copywriter Ogden Nash's poem "Spring Comes to Murray Hill". ** Dr. Toyohiko Takami is elected president of the Japanese Association, serves to 1933. ** George and Ira Gershwin's musical Girl Crazy opens. ** Jean Wade Rindlaub joins the advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne (BBD&O) as a copywriter. ** Marya Mannes' play Café flops on Broadway. ** Will Weng becomes a reporter for the New York Times. ** The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) opens an experimental television transmitter. ** Mount Sinai Hospital develops the first cardiac stress test. ** New York Yankees shortstop Mark Koenig is traded to Detroit. State Extensive dikes are constructed along the Hudson River in the Troy area. ** Commercial fish hatchery owner James Annin dies. ** Robert Moses chooses Rosebud Frantz, grandniece of Sitting Bull, to run the Indian Village at Jones Beach State Park. ** A study by the Utica Chamber of Commerce reveals that the city is paying twice as much for their water as Syracuse does; six times the rate of Schenectady. ** Napoli's 1890 Gladden Windmill ceases operations. ** Dominic Mancuso expands his family's Batavia dance hall and recreation center in Mancuso's Restaurant and Bowling Alley. ** Waldo R. Browne's Chronicles of an American Home tells the story of Wyoming's Hillside mansion. ** Warsaw's hospital is taken over by the county (Wyoming). Albany The city's population reaches 127,000. ** The approximate date the clapboard Shaker meeting house at Watervliet is faced with brick, and a porch, dormers and tile roof are added to the Brethren's Shop and Sisters' Workshop. Rochester The Veteran's Memorial Bridge on Ridge Road is completed. ** The Most Precious Blood Chapel Italian Catholic church is established. NOTE: Files through 1684 are now available on my home page: David Minor Eagles Byte Historical Research Rochester, New York 716 264-0423 http://home.eznet.net/~dminor