Enjoy free lunch with hot home-made soup, bread, dessert, and beverage.
Then at 6:00 p.m. head over to St. Patrick's Church, North Main Street, Jordan for Chowderfest sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council 9042.
Have lots of fun, eat great food and maybe win a raffle or two.
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Here is a photo of Merchants Bank in Jordan as a three story building. Is this what the bank looked like when John and Dave were growing up?
I can't read the sign down Mechanic Street.
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That is the bank as I remember it. On the street level from right to left it contained the bank, the entrance to upstairs, the A&P market, and Connie & Earl's diner/soda fountain, which became Buzzy's (Earl Pille owner) sometime in the 50's.
The sign down Mechanic St was most likely Fikes Hardware which took up the entire building where the laundromat is now.
I do not remember Fikes Hardware, only Brace's Hardware and Jordan Supply. What was in the building before Fikes set up shop there? Looks like this picture was the late 50's and after we left for the west coast. I seem to remember the A&P with signs across the front. In this picture the store looks empty. At the end of summer the bank would have trophies in the window from the swimming pool. We would find out if we won any by stopping and looking in the window. I won most improved swimmer one year.
On Fridays Buzzy's had a great fish sandwich for 25 cents and the line of school kids was out the door on a lot of occasions. I think that included fries and a drink, but am not sure of that part. I do know for sure that ice cream was 5 cents a scoop. Some Fridays I would just get a 5 scoop ice cream with my quarter instead of the fish. Don't tell my mom. There was one day I remember when I had not finished my cone before I got back to class and was sitting in my seat enjoying what was left when my teacher told me to get rid of the ice cream as it was not allowed in the class room. I popped all that was left in my mouth. I almost gagged on it, but I sure as heck was not going to throw it away. The teacher, I am sure was not pleased with me, but I got rid of it so what could she say excerpt that she did not mean for me to get rid of it that way. One thing for sure was that I never tried that trick again on a teacher. Most of my teachers were the same ones that taught my dad, except Miss Marsh, she went to school with him. She lived across the street from us, up a couple of houses. The house closest to John Pinckney on his side of Quince Street.
It seems to me that my behavior was always compared to my father. "David, your father would never do that" was often heard. Seldom was it meant as a complement, but on rare occasions it was.
Friday was the only day we did not have to walk home from school for lunch. My father worked afternoons in Solvay so lunch was the only meal the entire family shared on weekdays. I think most family's had at least one meal together at that time.
Fikes was a hardware store and a lumber yard in the fifties. They dropped lumber in the 60's I believe. I believe they were open inot the 79's.
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