What do you think about the different views of Jordan?
1) In the rain? Is the village romantic? I think mysterious.
2) In the snow? I see Jordan as old fashioned when it's covered in snow.
3) A sunny, hot August day? Lazy? Does the village look like a canal village in the summer with boats navigating east and west?
4) On an autumn day? Jordan looks like a field of corn waiting to be harvested.
Share your thoughts.
By the way today in Jordan it is pouring rain, kind of warm but really dreary...........and mysterious. Do you think there might be some scary stories about Jordan?
3 comments:
Winter was the best especially after a big snow fall. It was so quiet and everything was covered in a blanket of white. I could could not get outside fast enough hoping to be the first one down Lawrence Street hill. You could go all the way from Quince Street to Main at "break neck" speeds. It was tricky to get stopped alongside Brace's Hardware and not go right out onto Main Street, although there was not much traffic for it to be a real threat.
Even my parents liked the ride down the hill, but they usually stopped and warmed up in Doc and Pudges between runs.
Winter was a special time back in the 40's and 50's. The village did not own any sophisticated snow removal equipment so the streets would stay snow covered for quite a bit longer than they do now. As a matter of fact, I can remember the sidewalks being done by a small wooden V plow being pulled by a horse. Is that hi-tech or what??
As Dave said we west siders did our sliding on Lawrence street hill. The east side kids tended to slide on Skaneateles street hill, which was actually the officially village designated spot for sledding. But we thought we had a better hill and didn't have to walk to get to it.
The village DPW did not appreciate our zeal for Lawrence street though. They would come out and spread some sand and within an hour we would have it like glass again. We were very persistent.
On a good day you could start way up on Hill street, turn onto Quince and then make the corner to go down Lawrence towards Main. The stop at the bottom could be tricky and more than one of us had encounters with various store fronts across Main street. You also had the danger of the wrought iron fence around Charlie Taylor's property on your left if you got out of control.
John-
Remember the big old bob sled we had? I remember one time we took it down the hill between your house and Miss Marsh's. One of the Solomon twins (don't remember if it was Harry or Joseph) was on the back, as brakeman, and he fell off catching his foot in the runner support. We drug him all the way down the hill and over the little jump at the bottom. I don't remember him being hurt very bad, but it was his last run as brakeman. Then there were the times we would get big appliance cardboard boxes from Johnny McNabb's Jordan Supply and use them on the little hill along side his store. We could slide down the hill and over the wall into the canal. It wasn't much of a drop as there was a lot of snow piled up in the canal and it padded your landing.
Prospect hill was another good ride, but is was kind of a trek to get there and there were better places closer. Besides, at the bottom of that hill I seem to remember that there was a stone fence you had to get stopped before hitting it. Seems to me that a kid hit it or got tangled up in a barb wire fence up there and got hurt really bad. I do not remember who it was though.
Winter was great, but summer at the pool was the best. Swimming everyday, rain or shine. I still swim. I swim a mile 5 days a week, of course it is in an inside pool.
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