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(More customer reviews)My parents were both born and raised in Fairport and Perinton. This book was a great gift for father's day for dad, as he lived through most of the 20th century there (he was born in 1913), and has photos of all of the places and buildings he's often talked about and that I remember as a kid. Most of those buildings and businesses are gone now. Not to mention pictures of some of the people he knew well, and histories of the two companies he worked at in Fairport.
For example, our barber (who we knew well) invented and patented a device that barbers still use today! We never knew! And the Erie canal breaks, and the trolley that Mom used to take into Rochester from Bushnell's Basin and the trolley station there, and so on and so forth.
With great, large, glossy pictures on every page, and accurate historical information between them, I would have paid 10 times as much for it!
Great book! It brought back a lot of memories of my past in Fairport, as well as Dad and Mom's!
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Perinton and Fairport in the 20th Century documents the transformation of this upstate New York community into a suburban center. The change began with the arrival of a high-speed electric train in 1906. After that, the era of building and invention was under way. Pictured are some of the first housing subdivisions and period buildingsówhich survived most of the twentieth century but were razed for urban renewalóand the people of the time, including inventors Willis Trescott and Robert Douglas, whose patents for apple processing and Certo revolutionized the fruit industry.ÝÝ
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