The Erie Canal Celebration Committee-Jordan has joined efforts with the Elbridge Free Library adding the
Elbridge Village Wide Yard Sales to the Jordan Village Wide Yard Sales.
On July 14th please visit the
"Erie Canal Celebration-Jordan" and
"Treasure Hunting in the Villages-Jordan & Elbridge".
It will be a huge day for both villages, day long yard sales, 2-chicken bbq's
(one in Jordan and one in Elbridge), home-made donuts for breakfast in Elbridge,
crafters and artists in Jordan, used book sale in Elbridge,
Dave Ruch - historian , performer, entertainer in Jordan and much, much more.
Visit Erie Canal Celebration at http://www.jordanny.com/
4 comments:
I am sending a scan of a Post Card that I recently came across. It is of the old Methodist church in 1939. In the picture you can see that there is a steeple. Growing up there I do not remember it ever having a steeple and in the picture that is posted, I took it in 1980, no steeple is present. Anyway, does any one know what happened to it?
John, do you have any idea why the steeple was removed?
The picture that you have posted of The Wheeler Farm and Home, South Main Street, looks to me like what was once a service station and the feed mill. Skaneateles Creek flows under Mechanic Street just to the left of the buildings. Between the garage and the creek was a whole treasure trove of empty oil cans. We would gather them up and make all kinds of wonderful things to use during scouting camp outs. They became water buckets, frying pans, candle lanterns and whatever else the imagination could come up with. Of course somethings tasted kind of oily if they were not cleaned well before using.
The mill sold grain that I bought to feed my pigeons. They also sold feed bags that were printed just like clothing fabrics. My mother made a lot of our play clothes out of them that rivaled the prints found in the Jordan Style Shop down Main Street in the North end of the Higgs building.
The steeple was removed before my time (there are fewer and fewer things I can say that about anymore) so I really don't know.
Dave is right about the gas station. In our youth it was owned by Ed? Orapello who later moved to the Fairmaount area, and later it was a Sunoco station run by Harry Pucino.
I believe the "feed mill",which is what we knew it as back then,was run by Mr Wilcox. I can still remember the clouds of dust coming out the doors whenever they were grinding feed, and later in the day seeing Henry Burke walking home covered with so much dust he looked like a ghost.
Re: String started in Where is the Warmth? and continued in Towpath Times
John:
Where did you bowl? Was it at the Jordan lanes in the basement of the Ramsdell school? I asked a while back if anyone knew where the Jordan bowling alley was and never did get a reply. Are the lanes still there?
Do you remember the trips to the movie theater in Weedsport? As I recall a group of us would get together and our parents would take turns driving us to the movies. One route was to take the old trolley right of way. I can remember thinking that we were going to hit everyone of the metal supports that used to carry the wire that supplied power to the trolley car. I think that my dad was the only one that took that route. Once in the theater we would sit in the very first row so that there would be no heads in our way of the screen. I think that your mother bought an early Chevy that I thought was the greatest car in the world.
Fenster's lived on the corner of Lawrence Street, next door to you. They ran a driver training school and had cars with steering wheels and pedals on both sides of the front seat. Remember that?
The Jordan-Elbridge school district offices are now located where the old bowling allies used to be in the basement of the Jordan school. I don't know where the wooden lanes ended up when they were finally removed. I bowled there for many years on Saturday's in the Junior league and then on Mon and Fri nights in men's leagues. Finally moved my bowling activity to Rainbow Lanes in Weedsport sometime in the 60's.
I remember our Friday night excursions to Weedsport very well. On one occasion, and Dave was probably present, we packed 12 of us neighborhood kids into Dave Baird's 1946 Ford convertible and even picked up a hitch hiker on the way.
20 cents for a double feature and cartoon. What a great deal! Although, if you remember Al McNickol, he matured a little sooner than most of us runts and grew a beard at such an early age they wouldn't let him into the theater for children's prices, he finally ended up bringing a copy of his birth certificate with him so he didn't have to pay the exorbitant 40 cent adult price.
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