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<\/a><\/p>\nJane Niedzialkowski and Frank Danko on Park Avenue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n SOURCE: Jane Niedzialkowski and Frank Danko on Park Avenue (Albany, Albany Co., New York). Photographed by an unknown photographer on 29 Nov 1946.<\/p>\n Park Avenue in Albany bears little resemblance to the street of the same name in New York City, but\u00c2\u00a0there is a park – Ridgefield Park -\u00c2\u00a0just a few hundred yards from the house.<\/p>\n My uncle, John (Jack) Danko, owned\u00c2\u00a0the building\u00c2\u00a0at the time my family lived there. The structure is two stories high, one flat on each level, with a full basement and attic. For the first few years of my life my family lived in the second story flat, and then we moved downstairs to the first story flat.<\/p>\n Each flat included a living room, dining room, three bedrooms, a\u00c2\u00a0kitchen, a pantry, and a bath. Behind the house\u00c2\u00a0are a garage and a small yard\u00c2\u00a0partly planted in\u00c2\u00a0grass and partly paved. Uncle John, who owned a gasoline station, used the garage to store automobile\u00c2\u00a0tires and my parents usually parked their car on the street. The snowplow blade for Uncle John’s truck was stored on the side of the house.<\/p>\n The photo above shows my parents in front of the house\u00c2\u00a0on Friday, 29 Nov 1946. My parents were not yet married when this photo was taken and still lived in Worcester, Massachusetts .\u00a0Because this photo was taken on the day after Thanksgiving, my parents were apparently\u00c2\u00a0in Albany to spend\u00c2\u00a0the holiday\u00c2\u00a0with some of my father’s siblings who had already moved there.<\/p>\n My cousins still own and live in this house, and\u00c2\u00a0I usually stop by to visit them when I’m in Albany. The house and neighborhood\u00c2\u00a0are\u00c2\u00a0still very much\u00c2\u00a0as I remember\u00c2\u00a0them when my family lived there in\u00c2\u00a0the 1950s.<\/p>\n Written for Smile for the Camera – A Carnival of Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2008 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first house in which I lived was located at 783 Park Avenue in Albany, New York. Continue reading