It has been suggested we post more older photos of Jordan, maybe in the 1950's. So we're out scrounging around town looking for ol' photos.
Not sure what happened to the photos we were getting of Jordan outhouses other than we never received them. We'll track down the person that was getting them for us. Must be sokme there from the 50's.
If anyone out there in cyberspace has any photos please share them with us. Don't have a scanner? Let us know.
We're having a happy day in Jordan, how about where you are?
Was the kissing bridge across Skaneateles Creek always there?
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I think the "LOW BRIDGE" was most likely built from the timbers and planking that was available when the aqueduct was removed after draining the original canal. I have no proof of this but it seems to me that was the story. I know that it was there in the late 40's and early 50's as it was the preferred route across Skaneateles Creek going to and coming home from school. The exception being in the Spring when Skaneateles Creek flooded it as it carried the melted snow down steam.
A more interesting question to me is how it got to be called the "kissing bridge".
I grew up here in Jordan many years ago (1950-1959). Lived in the big brick house on the top of the hill on S. Main, across from the Yawny farm. I was 10 years old when my family headed for Florida in 1959, but I have an immense warehouse of very vivid memories of Jordan from that period. I also "had" an incredible collection of photos of Jordan from that period (note the past tense). Sparing everyone the gruesome details, someone I trusted lost all the photos. I'm still trying to locate them. There was one picture of my mother in a lounger chair at the Jordan pool. She was wearing a snorkel parka, and the local newspaper thought it was provocative so they took a picture of her and put it in the paper. Apparently it was a very cold summer that year, and my mother was making a sardonic grumbling point, because she loved the summer and hated winters. The pix may be in local archives here somewhere. But to get back to the point, whoever started this blogger thread about more Jordan pictures from the 50's, they took the words right out of my head. I was just about to zap an Email to the Jordan Historian Jack Horner, to see what he had. I can provide a pretty incredible narrative about the village as it was then, all the stores, like "Buzzi's Sealtest Ice Cream" store and Shrami's barber shop, Tom Cristz drug store, can't quite remember the name of the shoe repair store near the 5 & 10 candy store. Dr. Whitely was our family doctor and I believe he single-handedly turned the Jordan Festival into the success it is today, as it was back then. My mother was very active in the festival, with a whole attic full of festival toys waiting for the next season. I have so many, many very vivid memories of Jordan and I feel like I need to share it for posterity. And boy, if anybody can come up with some 1950's pix I'd sure be anxious to see them. Has anyone asked Tommy Critz or George Wakeman? They may well have some pix of those hay days. George Wakeman was a Jordan Pool lifeguard and he taught me and my brother and sisters how to swim. Enough reminiscing. This blog's out of control already. Keep me posted. Keep trying.
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