Monday, September 23, 2024

Then and Now: Main Street in Hornell, New York

 
That was then


This is now.  Not as picture-postcard pretty.



The population of Hornell peaked at 16,250 in 1930.  Since then it has decrased 50%.  Repair work is undeerway.




Other Then and Now posts:
Jamestown, New York.  (9/23/2024)

Then and Now: Berkeley Publlic Library

 
That was then





This is now

Google Maps

Other recent Then and Now posts:

Then and Now: What's was once the Cadillac (Michigan) Public Library is now the Wexford County Historical Society Museum

 
On March 20, 1903, the city of Cadillac, Michigan, received a grant of $15,000 to build a public library at 127 Beech Street.  The library was completed three years later at a total cost of $30,000.

Postcard from Retiring Guy's collection

After library operations moved into a larger facility in 1969, the building was taken over by the city's police department until 1977.  A proposal from the Wexford County Historical Society to repurpose the building as a museum saved it from demolition.


Other recent Then and Now posts:

Demented Don unleashes a gusher of gibberish when asked the question, “What are the specific mechanics of how prices come down? You know, the steps that would be taken in a second term for you?”



Donald Trump was asked twice to share specifics on his economic plans, but offered none. Instead, the Republican presidential nominee who recently helped launch his family’s new cryptocurrency venture attacked his Democratic opponent and rambled about the Presidents of Russia and China, while vowing to cut the cost of energy without stating how that would happen.

It's going to be a bumpy read!
"First of all, she can’t do an interview. She could never do this interview because you ask questions like give me a specific answer. She talks about her lawn when she was growing up.” 

“She’s not equipped to deal with President Xi, who I was very, I took in hundreds of billions of dollars with him and Putin. We had no war with Putin. Remember, and I’m just gonna go off just for this. With Bush, they took a lot. Russia. With Biden, they’re trying to take everything. With Obama, they took a lot. With Trump, Russia took nothing. Just remember that, you know, it’s a little, a little chart. But what happened? And when you look at what took place was so sad, when they took over, they cut the oil way down and oil started going through the roof. It was gonna go to $10 a gallon. It was gonna go to numbers that nobody’s ever seen. And so they went back to the Trump drilling, they said, ‘let it go back’. That was the only good thing. But they stopped because I would be there, but four years later, I would be triple what the number was. Right now they’re just about even where I was. But they only did that because of the fact that they eventually have an election coming up.” 
“And you remember at the beginning what happened. That’s one of the reasons that Putin went in because it went to $100 a barrel instead of $40 a barrel. And he could fight all the wars he wants with those kind of numbers, cause he’s a big seller of oil and gas. So what happens is they went back to what I was doing, just said reopen. Just reopen. It wasn’t hard. It’s so crazy what they wanna do. They’re gonna destroy lives. They’re gonna destroy the, what they have done to this country. And especially in the sense of allowing millions and millions of people come in because that’s something, you know, we can fix the gasoline situation and we can fix the, anything.”

Related posts:
Trump as the better presidential candidate for women:  Demented Don is off his rocker.  (9/21)
Trump gIbberish of the day:  Demented Don has a solution to California's water problemsSeptember 2024.   (9/20)
And the gibberish just keeps on comin':  Demented Donald Trump weighs in on global warming.  (9/18)
Inside the head of a demented Donald Trump, you'll find a furiously spinning world where everything that is, isn't.  (9/11)
Gush of gibberish at Michigan rally shows Trump's cognitive decline on full display.  (9/9)
Donald Trump's cognitive decline:  It's no WEAVE, folks, it's just plain WEIRD!  And very concerning.  (9/5)

July-August 2024
Meet Donald Trump, "colossal moron" (taxes and tariffs edition).  (8/19)
Donald Trump:  "Losing his marbles" and in need of help. (8/8)

January-June 2024

USA box office on 4th weekend of September 2017-2024

 
USA box office on the fourth weekend of September 2024 is up 56% compared to last year when "The Nun IIwas the top-grossing movie.   "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" was the top-grossing movie for the 3rd weekend in a row.

But it's down 31% compared to the 2017 peak when "Kingsman: The Golden Circleruled the weekend box office.

Source:  Box Office Mojo


Variety, 9/22/2024
Optimus Prime and Megatron put up a fight, but in the end, the robots were no match for everyone’s favorite bio-exorcist. 
After an unusually close box office race, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” emerged victorious over newcomer “Transformers One” to retain the No. 1 spot for three consecutive weekends. The spooky Warner Bros. sequel added a strong $26 million from 4,172 theaters, bringing its tally to $225 million domestically and $329.7 million globally. 
Meanwhile, “Transformers One” kicked off behind expectations with $25 million from 3,978 venues. It’s a meager start for Paramount and Hasbro’s animated movie, which cost $75 million and was targeting a start of $30 million to $40 million. It only brought in $14 million internationally for a worldwide total of $39 million. Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry and Scarlett Johansson lead the voice cast of “Transformers One,” the franchise’s first theatrical animated film since 1986’s “The Transformers: The Movie.” That film was a box office disappointment, though its reputation among fans has improved over the years.

More box office posts:
2024
Easter weekend.  (3/31)

2023

2022
Third weekend in December.  (12/19)
First weekend in December.  (12/5)
Thranksgiving 2022 daily top 10 movie grosses (Wednesday-Sunday)  (11/28)
Pre-Thanksgiving box office weekend down 47% from 2017 peak.  (11/21)
Going down: October 2022 box office drops 44% compare
d to 2018. (11/3)

On a Friday in September, Demented Don made 64 false or misleading statements in 63 minutes during campaign rallies

 
Par for the course

New York Times, 9/21/2024

Related posts:
Trump as the better presidential candidate for women:  Demented Don is off his rocker.  (9/21)
Trump gIbberish of the day:  Demented Don has a solution to California's water problemsSeptember 2024.   (9/20)
And the gibberish just keeps on comin':  Demented Donald Trump weighs in on global warming.  (9/18)
Inside the head of a demented Donald Trump, you'll find a furiously spinning world where everything that is, isn't.  (9/11)
Gush of gibberish at Michigan rally shows Trump's cognitive decline on full display.  (9/9)
Donald Trump's cognitive decline:  It's no WEAVE, folks, it's just plain WEIRD!  And very concerning.  (9/5)

July-August 2024
Meet Donald Trump, "colossal moron" (taxes and tariffs edition).  (8/19)
Donald Trump:  "Losing his marbles" and in need of help. (8/8)

January-June 2024

Sexual abuse in the Name of the Lord (California edition)

 
Headline and photo:  MSN, 9/16/2024
In May, a man came forward, saying Juan Barrios sexually abused him beginning at age 9 until he was in his mid-teens, police said. 
The man’s younger brother also came forward and said Barrios, a pastor with Iglesia de Dios Israelita in Fullerton, sexually abused him, officers said. 
McClatchy News reached out to the Iglesia de Dios Israelita for a statement on Sept. 13 and was awaiting a response. 
Police said the crimes happened between 2009 and 2015.
Other miscreants:
Demiro Johnson.  (9/22/2024)
Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22/2024)
James Swanson.  (9/21/2024)
William Dunfee.  (9/21/2024)
Steven Lawson.  (9/20/2024)
Andrew Lovisone.  (9/19/2024)
Jeffrey Duane Smith,  (9/19/2024)
Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19/2024)
William Johnson.  (9/17/2024)
Tim Ballard.  (9/13/2024)
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy.  (9/13/2024) 


Then and Now: Third Avenue looking east in Jamestown New York

 
That was then

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

This is now

Screenshot from Cruising video, July 6, 2024

Since its 1930 peaks of 45,155, the population of Jamestown has decreasd 38%.

SourceWikipedia

"Then and Now' posts of neighboring Warren PA:
2023

2022

2017

Population growth and loss: Madison Wisconsin is on the cusp of overtaking St. Louis Missouri

 
The population of St. Louis peaked at 856,796 in 1950.  Since then it was plummeted 67%.

Source:  Wikipedia (St. Louis, Madison)

Since 1950 the population of Madison has increased nearly 200%.

However, the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistal Area (MSA) has a population of 2,796,999, the 23rd largest in the U.S.

The Madison MSA has a population of 694,345 --  #67 on the list.

U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 34: Mississippi RIver)

 

That was then (1953).  












From chapter 34:
U.S.40, asd any transcontinental highway must be, is a great crosser and follower of rivers, Its pavement spans the Delaware and the Susquehanna, and skirts the Potomac without crossing.  It crosses the Ohio and most of the tributariees of the Youghiogheny, Monongahela, and Wabash.  It crosses the Mississippi at St. Louis; the Missouri twice.  [snip]  The photograph here shows U.S. 40 crossing the Municipal Bridge over the Miussissippi with St. Louis in the background.  The river is here about half a mile wide at ordinaray water.
This is now.  The Municipal Bridge was renamed the MacArthur Bridge.  In the early 2010s, the automobile deck was removed.  The bridge is now used only for rail traffic.


Google Maps




When George R. Stewart drove through St. Louis in early 1950s, the city had just reached its peak population of 856,796.  Its current population has since plummeted to 281,754.
 

Photo by Retiring Guy: 1952 Rand McNally Road Atlas (arrow added)



Related post:
Chapter 1:  Beginnings.  (7/19/2024)
Chapter 2:  Coastal Plain.  (7/20/2024)
Chapter 5.  Six-Lane Highway.  (8/4/2024)
Chapter 6.  Bush River.  (8/5/2024)
Chapter 7:  Baltimore rows.  (8/6/2024)
Chapter 8:  Ellicott City.  (8/7/2024)
Chapter 9.  Frederick.  (8/8/2024)
Chapter 11.  Horrible example.  (8/16/2024)
Chapter 12.  Mount Prospect.  (8/17/2024)
Chapter 13:  Ridge and Valley.  (8/18/2024)
Chapter 14:  The Narrows.  (8/19/2024)
Chapter 15:  From Little Savage Mountain.  (8/27/2024)
Chapter 16:  Mason-Dixon Line.  (8/28/2024)
Chapter 17:  Fort Necessity (8/29/2024)
Chapter 18:  Braddock's Grave, (8/30/2024)
Chapter 19:  Toll House.  (9/2/2024)
Chapter 20.  Coal Mine.  (9/5/2024)
Chapter 21:  Wheeling.  (9/6/2024)
Chapter 22:  Cambridge, Ohio.  (9/9/2024)
Chapter 23:  S-bridge.  (9/10/2024)
Chapter 24:  Highway and tree.  (9/11/2024)
Chapter 25:  Mileposts.  (9/12/2024)
Chapter 26.  Tavern.  (9/13/2024)
Chapter 27:  Taylorsville Dam.  (9/14/2024)
Chapter 28:  In full glory.  (9/16/2024)
Chapter 29.  Farm on the National Road (9/17/2024)
Chapter 30:  Victorian Elegance.  (9/18/2024)
Chapter 31:  Roadside Vendor (9/19/2024)/
Chapter 32:  Benjamin Harrison Era.  (9/21/2024)
Chapter 33:  Vandalia (9/22/2024)