What will you find in Jordan, NY?
Jordan BIG M, US Postal Service, Jordan Bramley Library, Jordan Historical Society Museum, Tom's Auto, LYONS Bank, Masonic Lodge, Bush Funeral Home, The Bennett Conservatory for the Arts, The Connection Center for Massage, The Lily Pad Salon & Boutique, Daddabbo's Pizza, Canal View Laundromat, Mickie's Shear Beautique, Eat It or Bead It, Cabin Creek Antiques, Wheeler's Farm & Home Store, Bennett Bolts.
And the churches - St. Patrick's Catholic, Christ Episcopal, First Baptist of Jordan, United Methodist Church.
Then there is the Jordan Volunteer Fire Company...
Oh then there are the schools Ramsdell Elementary and the Middle School.
I think I have everything listed. If not please let me know.
2 comments:
This reminds me of something with respect to the churches in Jordan. Can you confirm this?
I was told by my father that Jordan was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest town with the most churches. It had 5. The four you mention, although St. Patrick's was originally up on Hamilton Street by the cemetery, and a Pentecostal Church that was on Clinton Street next to the Jordan Hotel (Clinton Inn).
When I lived in Jordan on Friday afternoons all of the kids got out of school and went to their church for church school, and on Wednesdays at noon the fire department would test the siren and all of the stores would close for the rest of the day.
Your list is pretty complete but let me throw out some numbers for some perspective on the how "the times they are a changin". I don't guarantee my numbers are 100% accurate but they're close enough to make the point!
Back in the 40' - 50's there were 3hardware stores, 4 diner/soda fountain shops, 4 grocery stores and a meat market, 3 barber shops, a liquor store, a NYSEG office, a variety store (mostly clothing), 3 bars, a jewelry store, 3 doctors, a drug store, a Chevy dealership where Tom's Auto is now, the feed mill (Wheeler's), a dentist, and an optometrist. Not to mention the bank, 2 or 3 garages, the wire mill (which was a thriving 3 shift a day business then). What is now the village office was the fire house and a library. There are surely some I'm not remembering but the point is there was a thriving business community.
That was before the advent of the Thruway and route 31 came right through the center of the village, so there was a lot of truck traffic. Of course, the trucks made great snow ball targets from up on Clinton Terrace, which we all thought was great sport. It's probably safe to say the truckers didn't share our opinion.
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