Monday, March 12, 2007
A unique setting......
Moving to the Village of Jordan (from Old Forge, NY) at the age of sixteen could have been a traumatic experience but it wasn't. The unique setting was very welcoming as were the people. Friends from Old Forge visited on weekends and also fell in love with the village. The post office was on Main Street in the Larry Gray building (former Brace hardware-current Cornerstone Flooring) and there was an IGA near where Mickie's Shear Beautique is located today. There was a building south of the Bush Funeral home (north of the Bennett Conservatory) which is a grassy area today. Does anyone know what that building was?
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The post office, next to Brace's hardware, was one of my favorite places to visit. They always had the latest wanted posters of the men and women that had to be watched for, especially when near the Merchant's bank on the South West corner of Main and Clinton. I never did see any of these people, but I bet J. Edgar Hoover would have been proud of us junior G-men. Daily stops at the post office became a necessity starting about a week after sending for the latest prize offered on a cereal box. We had a post office box and I would go to the counter and ask for the mail for box 204. Later they installed combination lock boxes that you could open and get your mail without bothering anyone. We had box 94 and it was big enough so that even the treasures sent from the cereal companies would fit in it. Best of all I was entrusted with the combination and became the family mail carrier. Later it was orders from Allied Radio in Chicago, IL that brought me to claim my latest purchase of a part needed to build a crystal set or some other electronic gadget.
I am not sure where Mickie's is but Across Main Street from Brace Hardware was Doc and Pudge's Bar and Grill (I think that this building is gone and is now a parking lot) and north of it was Mr. Bond's Grand Union grocery store. We also had an A & P grocery store. I can still smell the fresh ground coffee that was waiting for you when you ground it yourself from the bags of beans they sold. It was in the same building that housed the bank on one end and Johnny McNab's hardware on the other end nest to the canal. Now that I am thinking about it I may have the two markets reversed as to their location. Does anyone know for sure about the location's of the A & P and Grand Union?
A third grocery store was Paterson's Market. They were located on Clinton Street West of Main in the building that has recently been torn down. I usually stopped there on my way back to school from lunch to buy five cents worth of candy. They always had the best selection in town and for a nickel you could get a small bag full.
The building that you ask about was empty as I remember. I am not sure what is was used for. Some of us boys went in it a night or two to catch pigeons that roosted in the rafters. We had a pigeon coupe where we kept them and eventually let them loose to see if they would come back to our coupe. As I recall they just kept on going. I did get a pair of White Kings to raise. I took them to the Fall Festival a couple of times where I won a blue ribbon with them. After the festival I let them go and they were waiting for me when I got back to check on them.
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