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VietVet
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Need to save the cuppola/weathervane on the roof. Put it out by the 75 gateway, place a light in it as a beacon of hope for all the voucher folks! Just kiddin'. Gyms gone- wonder where the backboards and rims are? All those relatively new windows-shattered. So much for the long term use of taxpayer monies. Looks like the auditorium side of the building is next.
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Little bit of the old track around the football field left. In 9th grade pole vaulted in the area of the infield on your first picture upper left hand corner. Alot of Roosevelt/McKinley football rivalry games played on that field.
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Birkheimer- yep, tall and thin- called him "Bird". Hung around with Danny Strickland.
Remember the Garden prefix when dialing the phone. Also the party lines where I use to interrupt the conversations by making smart a-- little comments while the people talked. Meadowgold milk delivered in the yellow step vans and placed in the metal boxes on the porches. Had the paper inner/outer caps in the glass bottles. Now you have me wondering what years my green and white (school colors at Roosevelt (the Teddies)) Rotaros are. ????? |
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409
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Vet....My 1961 Rotaro has a red cover.
I remember Jerry...tall guy.
Hatfield Coal was next to Diver's. They had their address listed as CENTRAL AVE. & BIG 4! Phone# GA 2-6386
Davidson's was always in the Middletown Shopping Ctr. as best I remember.
Mathews- 1015 Central GA 2-7551 -The old GArden exchange!
Buckeye Paper Products- not sure where they were located. Paper, Janitor, Restaurant Supply House.
Stokes Dairy- Meadowgold Products
Borden Dairy- 10 Bellemonte. Was on the west side just off of Central. An apartment building sits there now.
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VietVet
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409- Think I still have the green covered and white covered Rotaro from Roosevelt. 7th grade (would have been 1961) and 8th I think. You remember a kid who played basketball named Jerry Birkheimer. Good friend and ex-neighbor of mine growing up on Grand. Haven't seen him in 40+ years.
Hey- Norris Music on First next to the old library. Took trumpet lessons there on Sat morning. "Shorty" Norris owned the place. Mr. Buck was the trumpet teacher. How about Goldflies (sp?) Music on Clinton by the intersection with 1st Ave? Remember most of the others and their locations that you have listed. There was a large number of shoe stores in the downtown area back then, weren't there? Hatfield Coal next to Divers on 1st, wasn't it? Where was Davidson Photo before they moved out to the Midd. Shopping Ctr? Bought alot of record albums there. Many of these buildings still standing although vacant now. Where was Matthews, Buckeye Paper, Stokes/ Bordens Dairy? Remember heading down Central to the Community Store on the corner of Shafor and Central for some after school snacks and to socialize. Got some older kids to buy me some rum-soaked crooks to smoke. Nice sweet cigar. Good times! |
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TudorBrown
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Can someone please explain to me exactly why in the hell they would even consider tearing down this great building?
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Vet....remember them all. Played some ball for Ralph back in those days. I did some digging around and found my 1961 Rotaro (Orator) yearbook. It's the only one from Roosevelt I have left. Don't know what happened to the others. This one has been damp at some point in time and is a little yellowed.
Aside from the teachers info and the usual stuff, I find the ads at the back from mostly defunct merchants interesting. Hagias Candies, Allsports, Wilmer Motors, Union Sanitary, Mayer Meat Co., Sam Bartell's Shoes, Liberty, Greene & Ladd, Revelos Confectionary (formerly Elite), Marconi Electrical Service, Gough-Lamb, Community Store, Burnett's, Davidson Photo, Robersons, Filsons, Borden's Dairy, Dagenbach Shoes, Murphy's, Vradelis, Heber Jones, Lewis Drugs, Osborne Studios, Coca Cola Bottling Co., Dohn's, Ortman-Stewart, C.E. Greathouse & Son, Corner Men's Shop, Chapple Leasing, Consolidated, Gillen-Crow, Office Outfitters, Matthews, Peck's Flower Shop, Frisch's, Buckeye Paper, Baker's Jewelry, L&S Paint, John Ross Store, Parrot, Stokes Dairy, Ross Motors, Tobias Studio, Halsey's Men's Shop, Miller's Jewelry, Middletown Lincoln-Mercury, Schiff's Shoes, John Arpp Co., Norris Music, Hatfield Coal, Miller Ins., Central Store, Worthmore Clothes, Roger's Jewelry, Reed-Klopp Co., Irene's Beauty Solon, Diamond-National, First National & Barnitz Banks.
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VietVet
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409- you can almost see the ghosts of Ralph Rettig hanging around when they were tearing into the gymnasium on the east end can't you? How about Valda Wilkerson, Homer Sorrell, Edith Matson, Kiki Demetrion, JR Line, Mr. Krebs, Ms. Boeke, Harvey Apple and others from the 60's who taught there. Memories headed to the landfill. Guess they call this progress. And all that money spent for the new windows in that school several years ago. Mercy! Would have been nice to take a final tour before this.
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As of this afternoon. Hate to see it go.....went to Jr. High School at Roosevelt.
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VietVet
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O'Roark and Rausch Demolition ain't worried about what to demolish next. Both of 'em will go out of business after everything is torn down and hauled away in Middletown to allow the owners to retire on the money they've made off the city so far.
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Hermes
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: May 19 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1637 |
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Whats next on the demo list ?
What happens when they run out of stuff to demolish ?
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No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !!
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randy
MUSA Official Joined: Jan 13 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1586 |
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Great Pics !!
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Demolition has begun at the east end of the building.
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