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Post by shadylady on Mar 25, 2009 8:39:42 GMT -4
How about the powdered metal place that Mr. Phillips used to own behind the bank in Falls Creek? He employed about 6-8 people, I believe.
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Post by phoenixsmom on Mar 25, 2009 12:19:27 GMT -4
god! I just remembered!I used to clean that building i think,maybe i have the wrong one i don't know.I was just a teenager. when did it close? that would pin point it for me.
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Post by phoenixsmom on Mar 25, 2009 12:21:31 GMT -4
sorry I meant ward trucking
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Post by klsm54 on Mar 25, 2009 14:16:10 GMT -4
How about the powdered metal place that Mr. Phillips used to own behind the bank in Falls Creek? He employed about 6-8 people, I believe. How about before that....it was Harriger Trucking. And at one time we even had a beer distributor in that alley. Tom Kotzbauer had a beer distributor in Spinda's garage. I can remember him delivering Stegmaier's Beer to our house.
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Post by grady on Mar 28, 2009 11:46:44 GMT -4
Regarding the dry cleaners that used to be on the corner of jefferson ave. If my foggy memory is right , I believe it was Fustine's before they moved to the building beside the Gunsmoke. Help me out Mr. administrator? Lets take a trip up Jefferson Ave. After you crossed the old iron bridge I think there were 2 or 3 buildings on the right . The miget raceway that turned into Collins & Nolder Asphalt plant that turned into FBC that turned into Schaffner's furniture that is now Miller Bro's. At the end of the street was McGarvey's Equipment and a gas station I dont remember the name. Enlighten me on what else was there.
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Post by klsm54 on Mar 28, 2009 14:48:41 GMT -4
Okay, as soon as you crossed the bridge, on the right, was a big old brick building....the Bargain Spot. I remember the building well, but not so much the business that was in it. I believe they sold appliances, at least in their final days. Next was the building that housed Fustine's Dry Cleaners. Then there was another fairly large building, not sure what it had been but it had a front on it like a store. Collins and Nolder owned it and kept all sorts of what, to a 10 year old boy, looked like junk. It was a neat place for us kids to play though... I remember there being an old radiator shroud in there from a Mack truck. I wanted that darn Bull Dog sooo bad but could never figure how to get it off... ;D Then there was another 2 story brick building. Looked like it could have been a commercial building at one time but it was a residence when I was a kid...a Chittester family lived there. They had 3 kids, Carl, Linda & Debbie. Up at the corner of 219, on the left, was McGarvey's Farm Equipment. It was in a big old building that had been a garage/gas station at one time. Still had those signs, Red Flying horses, on the building. On the right was Sandy Pearson's Pennzoil Gas Station. An old time service station that should have been put in a museum. It was a small stone building with a canopy out front over the gas pumps. It had an outside grease pit, Sandy always parked his car over it. Picture this, only made of cut stone......
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Post by phoenixsmom on Mar 30, 2009 20:30:35 GMT -4
GOD ARE YOU GOOD! I 'n susposed to ask you you about the blue something or other, when it was up on all 4 wheels ghost ?thats it !! TELL THE STORY
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Post by brucie2000 on Apr 1, 2009 14:46:38 GMT -4
That would be the blue goose. If my memory serves me correctly the oldsmobile always had decreased tread value in the rear. Its gear shift on the side was also compromised from driver abuse. Probably a few beer stains on the floor and a cigarette burn or two in places, but that car was our freedom for a few hours a night. The blue goose rests fondly in the hooligan hall of fame.
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Post by grady on Apr 1, 2009 15:05:58 GMT -4
God bless that old Blue Goose. Many good times had in that car.I could tell some story's but I don't think the statue of limitations is up yet !
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Post by klsm54 on Apr 1, 2009 16:55:01 GMT -4
All of our cars had names back then, the "Blue Goose" may have started that trend. It was my Dad's car, back then kids didn't get cars for their 16th birthdays, or their 17th or 18th for that matter. She was nothing special, a 1965, 4 door, Oldsmobile F-85, the plain Jane sister of a Cutlass. I recently thought I found a picture of her, my heart beat with excitement thinking that maybe she had survived. But it wasn't to be...upon closer examination I realized the picture was of a '64.... But for all practical puposes, this is what she looked like. What's that you say? I beg your pardon! She looks just fine to me. I know, 4 doors, funny hubcaps, plain Jane looking.....but see we didn't really care back then. Most of us would have driven a rusted out, Pink Studebaker Lark if it got us down the road. Olds 442's, Chevelle SS's and such were just things to dream about. Besides the mysterious habit of the tread disappearing from the rear tires, especially the right rear, it had this recurring problem of the speedometer needle bouncing.... I can't confirm it, but some of that tire tread just might have been left on the "Andy H" and "Schaffner's Farm" hills. Those two places often had big black tire marks, in the shape of a twisty "J", on the pavement there. I've heard those marks were the result of one stopping about 2/3's of the way up the hill, putting the car in reverse, flooring it, then while holding the accelerator to the floor, pulling the gear shift down into "L". Supposedly the tires would begin to spin, try desperately to gain forward traction, as the car would continue rearward for maybe 20-30 more feet. Eventually the tires would win out over momentum and the car would start to go forward. Of course by this time the tires had reached the boiling point, spewing smoke and leaving a very thick black deposit on the pavement, that tire spinning and "laying" rubber would continue back up the hill for quite a ways, leaving that distinctive "J" shaped black mark on the pavement, or so I've heard. And that bouncing speedometer thing, it annoyed my Dad so he would take the car up to Pete's and get the speedometer cable lubed. But for some reason the problem would reappear. One theory exists that it might be from someone repeatedly disconnecting, then reconnecting, the speedometer cable. Why would someone do this you ask? Possibly, just maybe, someone's father was checking mileage, not allowing his hooligan son the drive 100's of miles in an evening. If that was the case, said hooligan might disconnect the speedometer to get around that restriction. But a 16 year old wouldn't know how to disconnect a speedometer, would he? Oh the times we had in the Blue Goose. I suppose a book could be written, but nobody would believe it.... ;D
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Post by pensrock on Apr 1, 2009 16:59:50 GMT -4
Oh the times we had in the Blue Goose. I suppose a book could be written, but nobody would believe it.... ;D There is no way I would believe any of the kids from Falls Creek would ever do something like that.
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Post by brucie2000 on Apr 2, 2009 15:56:49 GMT -4
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOokay, we shall go with that.
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Post by hipower on Apr 4, 2009 14:33:26 GMT -4
While we are out at the end of Jefferson Ave. we should look across the street to Fritz"s Broom Factory and John T. Larkin's warehouse. If we turn left and go up the hill toward Brockway we could get lunch at Gifford's Diner. Turn right and stop at Taylor's Atlantic and feed the ducks, sell some princess pine or elderberries. A little further we find Miller's Motel, Ward Trucking, Peterman's Garage and the old trailer where Tom and Dick Berry lived. Across the street was Mudgett" Monuments.
Man I'm feeling old from all this touring, think I'll take a coffee break.
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Post by bozmom2003 on Apr 7, 2009 17:55:40 GMT -4
Easter is coming i could really use some penny fish from Willars market, oh the good old days
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Post by phoenixsmom on Apr 11, 2009 18:15:05 GMT -4
I'm just getting back on here after some computer problems,the darn thing is 4 months old ,but the story I heard mr. admi. is the car was up on blocks with it in reversr all night to get the mileage to go back!!
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