A decades-old, large-scale diorama of the Genesee River gorge depicts the operations of Rochester Gas & Electric, Bausch + Lomb, and other businesses such as Upton Cold Storage in the early 1900s.
A gigantic, dust-covered diorama stashed in a roadside building outside Palmyra depicts a long-forgotten scene in Rochester from more than a century ago.
“This is the beginnings of what it started as,” said Clark L. Rittersbach, who, at 82, has held onto this model for most of his adult life…