About 400 elementary- and middle-school students taking part in the Shenendehowa Inventors program will display their inventions at the former Cotton Market store at Clifton Park Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Schenectady shoppers loved gimmicks during the 1940s. Bernard G. Rudolph wanted men, women and children at his new Schenectady store on Wednesday, May 21, 1947, when he opened his new Rudolph’s Jewelers store at 416-418 State St. They offered free slices of cake to people who attended the Wednesday open house, and promised 22 diamond rings were hidden inside the cake.
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