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Photographer: Howard C. Ohlhous
Taken: January 4, 2009
Caption: Former Canal Store
Additional Description: The Schenectady Yacht Club building is the former Canal Store nearby. Mickey Travis' canal store was a restaurant, store and saloon because drinks of all kinds were available. It was also a feed store where canawlers could stock up on hay and oats for their mules and horses. And it was a livery where the animals could be temporarily boarded should they develop harness burn, fatigue or simply become an excess for that particular trip. The Yacht Club bought the old Travis building in 1956, after it had been used as a tavern called Cartwright's Grill, much in the Travis tradition. At the time, stalls that had once been used for the canal animals were still in the basement. Straw was still on the floor. The first thing the club did was clear out the cellar, cement the walls and install a concrete floor.
Submitted: November 11, 2010, by Howard C. Ohlhous of Duanesburg, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p135829
File Size: 1.020 Megabytes

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