Ice Companies - fresh from the Genesee River...
The Glen House was another popular destination along the river.
Reduced Priced Arms and Legs above the Reynolds Arcade...
After the civil war, while J.J. Bausch was building his new business with his partner Henry Lomb, first Bausch and Lomb, Opticians and by 1866 renamed the Vulcanite Optical Instrument Company - he sold his retail shop at Reynold Arcade to his little brother E.E. Baucsh who partnered whith Thomas Drainsfield.
Henry Strong was always on the lookout for the next great invention, first investing in E. F. Whoodbury's new buggy whip handle prior to helping young George Eastman launch his Dry Plate photography company in 1881.
Henry Strong was always on the lookout for the next great invention, first investing in E. F. Whoodbury's new buggy whip handle prior to helping young George Eastman launch his Dry Plate photography company in 1881.
John G. and Elizabeth Zweigle had been operating a sausage manufacturing business on Front Street since at least 1867. Carl Wilhelm and Josehpine Zweigle's butcher shop on Joseph Avenue is credited as the founder of the current Zweigle's Sausage Company and was opened in 1880 - although no such buthcher appears in this 1887 directory.
Becker Lager Beer
Bartholomay Brewing
- The Rochester Directory (1887), Volume 28
- Shilling, Donovan A (2011), A Photographic History of Bausch & Lomb, pg 16
- Zweigles History - Zweigles.com
- Record of the Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Rochester (1911), pg 262
- The New York State Business Directory and Gazetteer (1867),pg 745
- Linsday, David (2000), Henry Strong, Wizards of Photography, PBS.org
- US Patent 60606, Improvement in Whips, Edmund F. Woodbury, December 18, 1866
- STRONG ET AL. V. NOBLE ET AL. Circuit Court, S. D. New York. June 22, 1869