Pat,? You brought an excellent idea of
buidings to remember in Dalton.l? Being a country kid, I thought it was
"worldly" to go to Bown's for cherry cokes and pretzels.? Can remember
saving money from giving piano lessons so I could buy hershey almond bars as we
left.? And I had forgotten how much I enjoyed going to the 5 & 10 if
not to buy, just to look around.? Didn't get to "window shop" in Kidron or
Wooster since my parents were "practical minded".? "You don't go to the
store unless you need to buy something".? Gone are those days!? I knew
the guys went to the "back" and played pool but were the girls really
"forbidden" to go to bacl to the "depths of sin?!" or was it just an assumed
role play for the genders?? I also remember thinking that it was neat for
the Dalton kids to be friendly and inclusive of us Kidron farm kids.? Maybe
"you all" were the seeds for becoming ecumenical and global in my perspective in
life.? I credit my cousin Jon
Amstutz who played cello but was good
friends of Bruce Schantz and the basketball player, Dannie Thomas, for believing
gender gaps don't have to exist.? He let me help build bridges in the ditch
out beside his house along the road.? He also told me that Miss Santchi
called him down in the hall for whistling "a happy tune".? "Gentleman don't
do that in public.?"? He and I howled about that one.?
But I'm
getting of the subject of Class of '59.?
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What happened to Mrs. Himes our 3rd grade teacher
and Mrs. Edwards, the 4th grade teacher?? She was the only teacher that
made me cry and all she did was repremand me for talking when I shouldn't
have.??? ?What a cry baby I was.
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Hey you trumpet trio guys, remember who accompanied
you through State compeition?? Vic Gerber seemed to give me all the good
accompaniment jobs.? I did that all through college and later at Salem
College, Winsont-Salem where I got paid for doing so!
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I also credit Vic Gerber for helping me believe
that music and sports cooperate and are not rivals.? Communication between
band directors and coaches were possible but I didn't realize that I had to make
it happed until my first year of teaching jr hi music in Wauseon, OH.? The
coaches there said "If my son had a choice, I make him play football and be a
man!"? To which I should have replied, I'd like my son to take music and be
a gentleman!
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You guys are all gentlemen who also played
football, thank you very much!
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Later.
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Addie
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Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:45 PM
Subject: [dalton59] The other side of the
street as I remember
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This has been a great
subject for me just to relive the town again.
As many of you know I
grew up right in the middle of town and have lots of memories of what
the street looked like and where things were and the changes that took
place over the years.?? It would be fun to draw a chart of
where things were that we remember as I am sure we all have different
memories.?
I am going to start
to the left of my house (you remember I lived in the old hotel) first
there was the town hall and the bandstand where the band would play each
Saturday night when the farmers would come to town to do their banking
and their shopping.? Then was the barber shop which had several
owners over the years ...then came Slusser's grocery store where the
small loaves of wonder bread came from for yes 10 cents.? Then
there was a great little passage way thru to camille Schultz back
yard.? Camille lived upstairs in the building and her parents had
the lamplighter restaurant downstairs with a player piano in the back
room that was just grand.? It later?became Bud Powley's TV and
appliance store.? Then there was vandersal jewelry store in this
tiny little store front and perhaps next to that was a meat market at
one time, I am still trying to think of the name ??? Oh yes it was
Stahls.?? PS above the meat market was a cobbler and I loved
going there and smelling the leather ...I wish I could think of his
name, he was a very old man, help me out here someone,? was it Mr
Arnold?? And then it was Bergs (Geneva ...?dry good store
where they sold fabrics and notions.? I think next was goudy
furniture and then bergs grocery store where the Norman Bergs lived
above it.? And then perhaps was Brown's lunch were many of our
memories were made hanging out after school.? Then was the post
office and I always enjoyed looking at the wanted list and scaring
myself thinking those people were most probably in the
neighborhood.? Then I think was a residence and then the wonderful
Wright's 5 & 10 where they had huge chunks of chocolate that was
sold by the pound and sen sen's and blue waltz perfume.? The next
building was perhaps the very poor Massey family living upstairs and
another barber shop.? Dan Hostettler?did your dad have
a?barber shop there?? Then there was an open space or a
parking lot and then started?some residences and then was the
school supply place which was run by pet palmer.? Oh?I could
tell you some stories about pet palmer!?? I remember buying
pencils and ink bottles and erasers, protractors and etc in that little
place which always had a funky smell.? Perhaps the newspaper was
printed in the back room?? ?Then on up the street was the home
of Ceila Denbrook who was an upper classman.? Soon we are arriving
at good old Dalton Grade School which was full of lots of memories too
and that is another subject for later.
Tell me what you
remember.............
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Date: 5/16/2008
2:06:47 PM
Subject: RE:
[dalton59] Historical/hysterical Dalton places like Brownie's and
Levi's
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I played the trumpet in the band and kept it for many years and
then eventually sold it.? Before high school I was in the Kidron
School and John F. Lehman and Myron Nussbaum and I played in a trumpet
trio and went to contest one year.? After high school I never
really played it again even though I had a major in Music Education.
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I spent many hours in Brown's Lunch including pool playing in the
back and card games in the very back room.? How about the many
hours we would stand out front late in the evening and hang out and tell
jokes.? Talk about a small world.? My dad has a manufactured
home in North Fort Myers, FL where they went for 20 plus winters.?
They helped Carl & Marcella Brown find a home in the the same
park.? My dad can't drive that far anymore so we ended up buying it
from him and we now "snowbird" from Texas to Florida.? Go figure
that one out.? Anyway, Carl and Marcella are still snowbirding
there each year.? It had been almost 50 years since I had seen
them?but we see each other every?few days when we are
there.? His dad ran the Brown's Lunch and when he died, Carl and
Marcella took over although Carl had a day job over in Orrville so
Marcella did a lot of it.? I believe Weasel participated in a few
of those games.? We frequently went to his house out on the hill to
play pool in his basement
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I can remember when I was younger going to the corner drugstore
to read the magazines and get a coke.? The Greyhound bus stopped
right out in front.
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I spent many hours working across the alley at Bach's service
station.? That was a great experience.?
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Who can forget the Dairy Queen!
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Then there was G.G. Grimm's car dealership right there in the
center of town across from my grandparent's Furniture Store.?
I had them paint my '50 ford a turquoise color.?
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Have a GREAT DAY!
Keith Goudy
Independent Associate
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.
512-590-2832
keith.goudy@gmail.com
Remember Brownie's Lunch that had great cherry cokes, greasy burgers
& fries? What a place to go after school to eat junk food, play
pool,
play euchre, or just simply go there and do nothing. What a
youth
experience.
Or how about Levi Berg's where you could
buy an ice cream cone (double
dip Sealtest raspberry swirl) for a
nickel (or maybe it was a dime)?
I never went to the back room as
a kid because that was where all the
bad stuff was going on
(probably card games or tip boards, maybe even
near beer was being
consumed).
Do any of you have any memorable experiences at these
places or any
other long gone places in Dalton?
My most
memorable experience at Brownie's was when I was just a tad
of a kid
(somewhere between probably 7 to 27 years old), I hate to
admit, but
I stole a 10 cent bag of potato chips. Feeling guilty,
the next day
I went back to Brownie's, threw a dime on the counter
and slinked
away for atonement. "Lord, please forgive me" I said to
myself as I
left. Lesson learned. I have not stolen anything since.
I guess
my parents raised me well.
Let me know of your memories of theses
places or others. I'm sure
everyone has a tale to tell.
I'll
try to think of some other places in the area to jog your
memory.
The Weaselmeister
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