I remember when Diane O'Malley lived in the apartment over the shoe
shop. The Gibson Quality Hatchery building was connected to the stairway
to their apartment. The thing I remember best is that they had a
skylight. It was the first I had ever seen. Dad tore down the
Hatchery in the 60s and put in the Coast To Coast Store. It is now the
Police Station.
Bill Seiter lived right across the street from me, when I lived on
Oneida. He played with all the Oneida Street gang. I, especially,
remember his firecrackers on the Fourth of July!! He liked them to be
powerful and loud!!! Bill came to visit me when we lived in Garnett,
Ks. That would have been in the years between '66 and '70. That was
the last time I saw him.
Ernestein Seiter lived next to Bill and his family for a short while,
before they moved to South Street.
Also, does anyone remember Billy Galloday? He lived right across the
street from Sonny (Oetting) in what was to become the Lefman house. His
Father operated the Mainstreet Theater. Billy's mother and my mother
traded babysitting. When it was his Mother's turn, she would send us to
the show. I thought it was great! I think my Mother thought she was
cheated. Billy was quite a handful. Another family lived there
between the Gallodays and the Lefmans. The name escapes me.
Any news on
Bill? Or Billy? Or the other family?
Shirley Briggle Miller remembers:
Delightful memories you relay to us from our TLC "members!"
For one . . . Howard Johnson's recollection of our absolutely ingenious
murder-mystery
play in Miss Margaret's 6th grade at Arnold School. Our
rehearsal was almost as much fun as the real thing. We thought we were so
clever, brilliant! Whatever. I (the victim and therefore dead) laughed so
hard with the rest of the class that my stomach quivered up and down, as did the
sheet (over the "dead"), to the continued delight of our classmates.
Even Miss Margaret, believe it or not, laughed along with us all.
And now...the
information you've all been waiting for...water meter
covers!!!
Bob Ball continues his
quest, and even has a website on the subject!!!! You MUST visit it. As Bob says
"What's the point of having an obsession if one can't bore others with
it???
For those of
you who are burning for information on Tonettes, I promise it will be dealt with
the next issue!!!
And for those who are eager
for my vacation photos...maybe I'll have to get a
website!
Your devoted
scribe,
Susan
P.S. While in Lexington, Gov. Holden visited the Senior Citizens Center and
studied the plans for our 4 for Life complex. More on that next time too. The
photo comes separately.