It's Garbage Day!
42.8 degrees and blustery.
42.8 degrees and blustery.
WKTV predicts that: "Our snowpack will take quite a beating tonight and tomorrow as temperatures soar into the 50s. It will be an active week though, with plenty of chances to build back some of what we'll lose over the next 24 hours.
Temperatures will continue to rise into the 30s tonight. Clouds and a few showers are likely into tomorrow morning, as warm air surges into Central New York. Winds will increase tonight as well, with patchy fog developing in some spots despite the wind.
On Monday, areas of fog will be around, along with some drizzle or showers. Temperatures will jump into the 50s early Monday afternoon. Rain will arrive in the afternoon through the evening commute. On Tuesday, we will see clearing, before we watch a parade of storms continue. One storm should bring us mainly light snow Wednesday, followed by a 2nd, stronger storm Thursday into Friday, that could bring a bit of a mix to the region. "
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VILLAGE BOARD MEETING
tonight at 7:00
at Municipal Hall
VILLAGE BOARD MEETING
tonight at 7:00
at Municipal Hall
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THE GARDEN CLUB'S
JUDGING OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
will take place
THURSDAY EVENING!!
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THE GARDEN CLUB'S
JUDGING OF CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
will take place
THURSDAY EVENING!!
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This is what it looked like on Saturday morning .........
on Fuess-Cleary Road ..........
............. where even the "Artist's Conks" on an old maple tree wore Winter Caps."
Up near the "top" of Shanley Road, in Paris,
trees were coated with snow.
Along Daytonville Road, ice-covered shrubbery glistened in the sun.
In the Village.....
In the Village.....
wreaths have been hung on the doors at SouthGate Ministries on Main Street.
On Saturday, there were plenty of Christmas Trees to choose from at the Sanger Lodge Christmas Tree Sale in the Park .............
but by late yesterday afternoon there were probably only a dozen or fifteen trees left!
After dark
the Woodman Getman Law Offices on Main Street .......
the Woodman Getman Law Offices on Main Street .......
...... and the balcony tree on W. Bacon Sreet.
(Too many to photograph -- forty-nine candle lights in all of the windows of the Meszler residence on Sanger Avenue and eight trees!)
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SPECIAL NOTE
"I had to reschedule the adult "Gifts In a Jar" program that was originally set for Saturday. It will now be Wednesday, December 17th @ 3:30, and we will be making Jars for Chicken Noodle Soup and Holiday M&M Cookies. There are a few openings left if anyone would like to call the library (841-4651) to sign up. They do need to bring 1 or 2 jars (1 quart size) to fill, or gallon size ziplock bags and I can show them how to make a gift cone."
(Too many to photograph -- forty-nine candle lights in all of the windows of the Meszler residence on Sanger Avenue and eight trees!)
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SPECIAL NOTE
- from Jill Getman at the Waterville Public Library who wrote:
"I had to reschedule the adult "Gifts In a Jar" program that was originally set for Saturday. It will now be Wednesday, December 17th @ 3:30, and we will be making Jars for Chicken Noodle Soup and Holiday M&M Cookies. There are a few openings left if anyone would like to call the library (841-4651) to sign up. They do need to bring 1 or 2 jars (1 quart size) to fill, or gallon size ziplock bags and I can show them how to make a gift cone."
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I've also received NINE E-letters regarding both the Oddfellows Hall and the old apartment building on Buell Avenue and will post those in an Add-on!
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FOR THE RECORD
HAVE A GOOD DAY, EVERYONE!
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On Friday morning I posted an old photograph of a building that had once stood on Buell Avenue that I thought might have been the Oddfellows Hall.
It didn't take long for comments to start coming
just proving that there IS "history" and people love to talk about it!
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On Friday morning I posted an old photograph of a building that had once stood on Buell Avenue that I thought might have been the Oddfellows Hall.
It didn't take long for comments to start coming
just proving that there IS "history" and people love to talk about it!
First came a telephone call from Jack Youngs, which he followed up with this E-mail!
"Today I saw the picture of the Oddfellow's Hall, thought I should reply.
First, the steps mentioned, at one time led to Lynn Quilmen's barber shop. On the first floor was a candy store known to us kids as Johnny the Greek's. Mrs. Gorton had her butcher shop underneath.
The long apt. house was known as Doc. Castle's. I think he sold used items.It was turned into apts by Mabel Toole, who also ran a second hand store where Carters store was later located. In the cellar of this house there was a well-built high arched culvert* headed toward the road The reason for it unknown.
Regarding the Hall:
At one time the first floor had a clothing store run by Ray Cash. He was the Fire Chief for many years. This space later became Dee Ann's ice cream parlor, Tom O'Neil and Al Isley had a plumbing shop in the Bldg. In the cellar there were club rooms. I was there as a fireman the night the top floor burnt.
******"Today I saw the picture of the Oddfellow's Hall, thought I should reply.
First, the steps mentioned, at one time led to Lynn Quilmen's barber shop. On the first floor was a candy store known to us kids as Johnny the Greek's. Mrs. Gorton had her butcher shop underneath.
The long apt. house was known as Doc. Castle's. I think he sold used items.It was turned into apts by Mabel Toole, who also ran a second hand store where Carters store was later located. In the cellar of this house there was a well-built high arched culvert* headed toward the road The reason for it unknown.
Regarding the Hall:
At one time the first floor had a clothing store run by Ray Cash. He was the Fire Chief for many years. This space later became Dee Ann's ice cream parlor, Tom O'Neil and Al Isley had a plumbing shop in the Bldg. In the cellar there were club rooms. I was there as a fireman the night the top floor burnt.
Lynne Tuttle Matteson wrote this: "Just the other side of the creek from the Odd Fellows Hall building was an old white building with four apartments in it. There was a long porch along the side facing the creek. All of the front doors opened off that porch, railroad style. There was a single lady named Helen Kahl who lived in the last apt. I used to visit her with the woman I babysat for. "
(I had suggested that a Miss Korbel lived there, but she and Gary Eckerson had better memories:)
From Gary: "I'm not positive but there was a Miss Korbel who taught school back in the 50's. I remember have a teacher by that name and I believe it was 4th grade. But she lived on rt 12 just down from Alan Acres so I don't know if it's the same person."
Les Risley: "Wasn't Miss Korbel a teacher, like 6th grade??? I had McEvoy but seems like.................100 yrs ago, I know. Also, the 1 story low building: side of it faced road and was not a "nice" place to live - back in 50s."
Katie Ireland Perck, WCS Class of '51, wrote: "Yes, I remember the Hall and the picture you had sure looks like it ! As I recall, there use to be great sleigh rides from there and all the fun we had singing and laughing as teen-agers do, brought happy memories back. That was in 49- 50- or possibly 1951. My girl friend , Marilyn (Mig) Briggs (her Dad, Bill had the Horse-shoeing business right across the street from the Odd Fellows Hall) and I enjoyed those Sleigh rides and I think there were hay rides also. Maybe some of your readers could help me out on that one! What fun we had then as we were always together growing up from 4th grade on! Also, Johnny Cornelius and his bride Genevive Welch had their wedding reception there in the 50's sometime. You may recall that they are the grandparents of our own Cpl. John Sigsbee."
Yes, a nice lot of memories there and the whole Buell Street and Waterville gang!
John Peterson added: "I remember it and the only name I can think of was a Mickey Franks, he
worked at the mill I think, he lived there and I think he may have owned it at one time."
The lady who started this exchange was Sheri Salm Brennan who had recalled walking to "Langone's Store."
Lynn Matteson: I moved to Waterville when I was 11 or so, in 1945 or '46. At the time there was a store where the apartment is in between the laundromat and Carlton Alshiemer's Modern Electric. At that time it was known as Margaret Green's newsstand. We bought candy there. I know that over the years other people had a newstand/candy store, etc. store there. I don't recall it ever being called Langone's, but I was away from Waterville for a number of years. I don't know whether that would be the place or not.
Re the apt house. There was a small porch on the front of the building that went into the 1st apt.
Jennifer Neff solved the mystery of the location of the "candy store" - "The store Sheri was talking about was my cousin, Joey Battaglia's lawn and garden equipment repair shop, it was called Village Lawn and Garden and it was located by First Niagara Bank. Joey's mother was Tessie (Langone) Battaglia."
*I know that somewhere I have photographs of that stonework - and it was a beautiful stone arch - taken when the building was demolished in 1971 or 72.
(I had suggested that a Miss Korbel lived there, but she and Gary Eckerson had better memories:)
From Gary: "I'm not positive but there was a Miss Korbel who taught school back in the 50's. I remember have a teacher by that name and I believe it was 4th grade. But she lived on rt 12 just down from Alan Acres so I don't know if it's the same person."
Les Risley: "Wasn't Miss Korbel a teacher, like 6th grade??? I had McEvoy but seems like.................100 yrs ago, I know. Also, the 1 story low building: side of it faced road and was not a "nice" place to live - back in 50s."
Katie Ireland Perck, WCS Class of '51, wrote: "Yes, I remember the Hall and the picture you had sure looks like it ! As I recall, there use to be great sleigh rides from there and all the fun we had singing and laughing as teen-agers do, brought happy memories back. That was in 49- 50- or possibly 1951. My girl friend , Marilyn (Mig) Briggs (her Dad, Bill had the Horse-shoeing business right across the street from the Odd Fellows Hall) and I enjoyed those Sleigh rides and I think there were hay rides also. Maybe some of your readers could help me out on that one! What fun we had then as we were always together growing up from 4th grade on! Also, Johnny Cornelius and his bride Genevive Welch had their wedding reception there in the 50's sometime. You may recall that they are the grandparents of our own Cpl. John Sigsbee."
Yes, a nice lot of memories there and the whole Buell Street and Waterville gang!
John Peterson added: "I remember it and the only name I can think of was a Mickey Franks, he
worked at the mill I think, he lived there and I think he may have owned it at one time."
The lady who started this exchange was Sheri Salm Brennan who had recalled walking to "Langone's Store."
Lynn Matteson: I moved to Waterville when I was 11 or so, in 1945 or '46. At the time there was a store where the apartment is in between the laundromat and Carlton Alshiemer's Modern Electric. At that time it was known as Margaret Green's newsstand. We bought candy there. I know that over the years other people had a newstand/candy store, etc. store there. I don't recall it ever being called Langone's, but I was away from Waterville for a number of years. I don't know whether that would be the place or not.
Re the apt house. There was a small porch on the front of the building that went into the 1st apt.
Jennifer Neff solved the mystery of the location of the "candy store" - "The store Sheri was talking about was my cousin, Joey Battaglia's lawn and garden equipment repair shop, it was called Village Lawn and Garden and it was located by First Niagara Bank. Joey's mother was Tessie (Langone) Battaglia."
*I know that somewhere I have photographs of that stonework - and it was a beautiful stone arch - taken when the building was demolished in 1971 or 72.
Would someone suggest another topic?
This is fun!
This is fun!
