Tannery road

[grady]

I started thinking about Tannery road after we reminisced about Jefferson ave. I can remember going to the first swimming that way. When you went up Tannery road it split. Going left took you to I think was Jefferson Wholesale ? Going right you went up the road and it took a sharp left hand turn. I remember a bunch of houses back there. The Bundy's lived in one of them.you would follow the road down to the first. Was there an old bridge across the creek there ? I can remember someone drowning there when I was small. Dad was fire chief and I rode there in his fire chief's car, But he would not let us go down near the water.

[grady]

Talking to my bro. again today. He belives The Bundy's, The Preston's and a couple other families lived on that road.Also we were thinking "Little Joe" lived back there some where. There was an old bridge that crossed just above the 1st., But it was old and the deck of it was falling apart. The girl that drowned there was a Hayes girl that lived on Church Street. I can remember when they built I-80 they bought out those houses and later on the local fire depts. had a training drill burning down those houses.

[klsm54]

Bundy, Preston, Knouse, Vance, Bayer.....maybe Crooks, and I think Murray...were some of the Tannery families.

It wasn't "Little Joe"....assuming you mean Joe Luchinni. But there was a guy named Joe, and he was little... ..... but he was Joe Wuey. He lived in the one house still standing on this side of I-80.

I remember the drowning, I went back there with my dad, I'm gonna guess that it was in '59, maybe '60. I must have gotten closer than you grady, I remember having a lot of questions, and more than a couple nightmares. I always thought the girl was a Rakestraw, or Strawcutter...or something with straw in the name. But I was just a little shaver, might be mistaken.

I'm sure hipower, or bskoofoo32, or maybe shadylady will remember.

[shadylady]

Don't remember that at all. Must have happened just before we moved to Falls Creek.

[johnm]

does anyone remember when a falls creek boy,fell from the r.r.bridge into the creek? he was riding his bike across the bridge and fell from it. at that time there were a few families swimming there,,one of them was a falls creek dr. he gathered up the boy and took him to the hospital in his old packard. the boy survived and is still with us,,,i met him again at the last f.c. school reunion

[klsm54]

That's interesting John. I'm sure it was before my time though as Packards, and especially doctors, were pretty much a thing of the past by the late '50's when I started remembering...

Do you remember his name?

[shadylady]

Sorry, I'm clueless on this one! I must have been in love and had stars in my eyes or something.

[johnm]

yeah,kslm..i remember the boys name,,,but not sure if he wanted it published,,,,i think the dr,,,was a dr corbitt,,,,if i remeber correctly

[jbailley]

Wasn't there a machie (spelling), that lived with all the junk around it? It was a white house towards the end where you would come back out to 219 before I-80?

[klsm54]

Yep Jim, it was Maczaczyj. And George, the youngest son, still lives there.

[jbailley]

How can anyone for get the "Sand Crusher"? People used to go back there and sight their rifles in before buck season. Man there was a lot of brass back there. I used to run all through there. And then there was the "Cave." kism's mother always told us that if we went in the rock above the entrence would fall over the opening and trap us inside.