Wabash Street

[frawin]

Waldo, Sam Hugg was also the Case Dealer and when he sold the Pontiac Dealership to Adrian Hebb he also sold the Case Dealership to Bud McClure.
Frank

[Jo McDonald]

The M-M dealership was owned by Tony Zeleny that was the only dealership on that side of the street and it seems like Edith Barkley worked at the Production Credit and didn't Josephine Eaglin work there too?  There was a feed store behind that, between there and the alley.  Didn't Marie Wiseman own the cafe at that time?  All of those business were in the late 40's and early 50's.  Down the street south - between your Dad's meat market and Smith & Goodwin's was Bartlett Jewlery store.  Cob & Terry Miller put a cafe/coffee shop in where the meat market was, didn't they, Frank?
Waldo and Slim Gray had their barber shop under the post office on the corner of Randolph and Wabash. Carl and Grover Cooley had their barber shop and Ruth had a beauty shop under the old bank building on the corner of Washington and Wabash/

[Teresa]

Dang Mama... You are pretty sharp for an old cookie.. 

[frawin]

Jo, I think Josephine worked for A.K. Rader in the Farmers Home Administration (FHA), which was also in the same building, I think it was just around the corner from the PCA office. The Feedstore was Paul Doris Thompson, Purina feeds. Mary Wiseman Strange had the M&M it was across the street from where the folks later had the cafe, in the building that later became the North part of Perkins and Greene Hardware, the Dave and Hazel Knight bought it and moved it to where it was when Mom and Dad bought it from Knights. I agree with you on Bartletts and yes Cob and Terry did put in the Cafe where the old Meat Market was in fact the lockers were still in that building and people went into Cob's to get to there lockers that were then owned by Clarence Lister. Wow, I love the memories that the Forum and people like you Jo, brings back.
Frank

[Jo McDonald]

Frank --- the Barber Bros. - Marion and Bud owned the garage that is now Lannings at one time, didn't they?  Fred worked for them for a while when he was still in high school and lived with his Great Uncle Frank Organ in the Howard Hotel.  And who did Rex Armstrong work for in that garage---was it Hebb's Garage then -- and who was the mechanic that worked at Carl Lauffer's garage.  We had a Dodge car in the late 40th that wasn't worth a hoot - but Fred had it worked on at Carl's Garage.
 

[Diane Amberg]

 Do you all still have freezer lockers out there? When I was growing up we had a home freezer, but also had two lockers at the rear of Smack's Butcher Market over at Avondale PA. He also processed the local deer, hogs, lambs and cattle for anyone who didn't do their own. I think they are extinct here now.

[W. Gray]

There are not any left in Elk County that I have heard about.

Your question got me to wondering if there are any commercial freezer operations like that left anywhere.

I did a quick surf on the internet and did not find anything--but there always seems to be an exception to everything.

[Jo McDonald]

There are  meat processing plants w/lockers in Grenola - one in Fredonia and one in Neodesha, one in Parsons, one in Moran and two in Yates Center.  Of course there is a lot of will game hunting in this area - and a lot of beef and pork  producers .. so that is probably the reason there are still operating meat processing businesses.

[Jo McDonald]

Frank, when I came home for lunch I asked Fred when he worked for the Barber Bros. Garage and he said it was in the summer of 1945, just before he enlisted in the Navy and he did live with his Uncle Frank at the hotel.

[Joanna]

I'm pretty sure the Oswego Locker is still there too.  We used them when we lived there ~ oh, maybe 10 years ago.  It was pretty handy, and they also had meat for sale when we'd used all ours up ...  There used to be a good one in Cedar Vale too, at least there was a few years back.  All this talk of meat is making me hungry.  Marty and I were talking last night about getting some steers to raise next spring.  I think we've been living on venison most of this year and I do like it a lot, but I do like to change up once in a while...  Oh   looks like I got off topic "Wabash Street" again.  Sorry