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By: Bertram Lewars

Bertram Lewars — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:00:58 +0000

Trying to get in touch with Richard and Lee Wilkie from upstate New York. My mom, Flo Lewars, was great friends with them and I would really like to reconnect. It has been over 3 years. Bertram Lewars 954 704-0428.

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By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:59:19 +0000

And when I said Marshal I was mispeaking … you are correct that there is no factory there.

I meant Beekman St!

(It’s been a while since I’ve been there.)

By: chezjake

chezjake — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:45:22 +0000

The comment is posted now.

I don’t remember seeing anything on Marshall that could have been a factory. My daughter lives right around the corner from Marshall on Delaware — next door to the firehouse.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 10 May 2011 03:46:49 +0000

I don’t see the comment yet.

I grew up on Stanwix, which is on that map (or just over a bit if you nudge it) between Delaware and 2nd.

On Marhsall there was another old factory, really a warehouse when I lived there, that was used for a secret military project during World War II. They say.

By: chezjake

chezjake — Tue, 10 May 2011 03:10:58 +0000

A year late, but I just cited this post in a comment on the All Over Albany blog:
http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2011/05/09/a-future-in-plastics-and-billiard-balls

So, to answer your question, Kay Wilkie, with her parents Richard and Lee, lived in one of those new (in those days) townhouses on Mt. Hope Drive (a left turn off Southern Blvd – aka Rt. 9W), but not far from the Normanskill.

By: g

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:12:02 +0000

chezjake: Not bad on the billiards since I was gong by memory. Am I correct in thinking that most billiard balls everywhere that are not ivory came from the Albany factory?

I knew Lee Wilikie, as I went to school with her daughter. Did they live just east of Delaware near the Normanskill, as the Yellow Brick Road’s eastern branch headed down from the main road?

By: Blind Squirrel

Blind Squirrel — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:51:04 +0000

Also used to make movie film, which made the life of the projectionist quite hazardous. Also called “gun cotton”.
BS

By: laura

laura — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:14:49 +0000

Love your stories. I live in this neighborhood and could relate and also learned some new things about my neighborhood. I’d love to get your permission to include your article in our local newsletter. Would that be ok?

By: chezjake

chezjake — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:34:23 +0000

You’re close on the history of synthetic billiard balls. “Celluloid” (stable, solid nitrocellulose) was patented in 1869 by John Wesley Hyatt and first used to manufacture billiard balls, piano keys, and false teeth at his Albany Dental Plate Company in 1870.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley_Hyatt

Also, I guess that Avon lady was before my time in Albany. By the very early ’70s the Avon lady was the statuesque Lee Wilkie, as in Richard (of the awesome handlebar moustache) and Lee Wilkie, folksingers actively involved with the Clearwater Sloop.