DECEMBER 1889
What was happening in Evans 120 years ago? The Evans Historical Society has the Angola Record over the years. These are some of the articles and ads from December 1889.
Dec. 12: The Nickel Plate will sell tickets at reduced rates between all stations commencing Monday, Dec. 23rd, 1889 to Wednesday, Jan. 1st, 1890.
Dec. 12: The damp, disagreeable weather did not prevent the people from being present at the service last Sabbath evening. It needs a brave heart to venture out and attempt to walk our dark streets in the evenings. O! City fathers have mercy upon us and give us street lamps before some accident occurs.
Dec. 19: Too much rain and mud prevented a large attendance at the fireman’s second dance on Tuesday evening. Good sleighing is hoped for before the next one, New Year’s Eve.
Dec. 19: Holiday goods at prices to suit the times. Cake stands from 15¢ to 25¢; child’s tea sets from 20¢ to 75¢; frying pans 10¢ to 15¢; coffee and tea pots 10¢ to 20¢.Dec. 26: The only "snow" we saw on Christmas was in G. Koehler’s show window.
Dec. 26: The Record is just the kind of a New Year’s present a distant relative or friend will appreciate. One dollar will send it one year to any part of the United States or Canada.
Happy Holidays to everyone from the Evans Historical Society and Cheryl Delano, Town Historian.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Present Display
Those who have been to the Historical Society School House Museum know that we have a display case on the first floor the contents of which regularly change. The display case itself was once the candy case at the Angola Variety Store run by Bertha Crowell.
The present display is a wooden train and a series of buildings. They were donated by Sandra Greninger of Hamburg. Both were made by Angola carpenter Albert Pfeiffer who live on Orchard Avenue. The train was made around 1930, and the houses circa 1940. The houses were displayed on the porch of his house at Christmas time. They were modeled after some Angola buildings and others that he had seen. They were lit from behind with electric lights.
The display can be seen the next times we are open. First on Monday night, December 20, when we hold our annual meeting and election of officers at 7:30 p.m. There will be a Christmas sing-a-long and refreshments. We ask that people bring a dozen Christmas cookies to share.
The second time will be our regular January Open House, Sunday, January 2, 2011, from 2-4 p.m.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Hamburg-Gowanda Expressway
Do you remember when the Eden Town Board,in 1958, had a public meeting to discuss having a Hamburg-Gowanda Expressway, which would run west of the railroad tracks? It was first advocated by Albert F.Hickman and the Eden Citizens Association. The proposal had been vetoed by the governor the previous year.
Courtesy of the Eden Town Historian Office.
An Old Timer Reminices
AN OLD-TIMER REMINISCES
This article was written in January 1977 by Merritt Landon, the son of Weston Landon, the editor of the Angola Record until the late 1930s. Do you have any childhood memories?
AN OLD-TIMER REMINISCES
I’ve been wondering how many of the old-timers are left in Angola and what they remember of the early days of this century?
The definition of an Angola old-timer, I would say, is one who remembers one or more of these incidents:
The year Main Street was paved with brick, eliminating the ruts and mudholes.
The year the B&LE trolleys reached the end of Commercial Street.
Swimming in Big Sister Creek in back of Clayton Hanson’s.
Skating between Bundy’s Mill and the LS&MS RR concrete bridge.
Special guards patrolling the RR bridges in World War I.
The day the B&LE freight car ripped the front off the Fire Hall.
The day the LS&MS tried to take a chunk of village property in front of Frawley’s Hotel, and the firemen driving the section crew off with water hoses.
Lemmler’s dog "Rex" who chased all the trains when they roared over the Main St. Crossing, finally getting killed by one of them.
Swimming in the water reservoir at the Lyth Tile Co. plant when the management was too busy to order the swimmers out.
Getting samples of fresh macaroni at the Lograsso factory as it came out of the press.
Envying Ray Frawley when he was the tester for the Emblem motorcycles. Getting a wild ride on a makeshift seat behind him, while he tore off at high speed over dirt roads.
Watching in terror as a runaway team dragged a farmer down Main Street through the ruts and mud.
Observing the establishment of the Emblem bicycle works in the building across from the macaroni factory, with John Glass as Mgr.
Following the career of "Pi" Schwert, Angola’s only big league baseball player, who was on one of the early NY Yankee teams.
Playing pool and billiards in Vic Blackney’s establishment.
Trying to help drag the hose cart up Pat Carrol’s hill in a snowstorm, long before the Fire Dept. became motorized.
Wondering how Halloween pranksters got a lumber wagon up on top of the Standpipe. Also when others answered a need for coal at the Congregational Church, by dumping a wagonload on the front steps. The coal dealer had made the mistake of loading the wagon and leaving it outside on Halloween night.
Dancing at Du Drop Inn and Pine Lodge at a nickel a dance.
Catching rides with Frank Ingersoll and Joe Wiatrowski who met the trolleys and taxied people to the Lake Erie vacation spots. Earlier The
Angola House and Sam Cutler operated team-powered buses that easily held a couple of dozen vacationers.
Watching high school basketball games in the auditorium of the old school on High Street. There were no gyms in those days.
Watching Charlie Paul ply his trade as tinsmith in the rear of the A. F. Schultz Hardware Store.
Joining practically everybody in town at the first movie theater that opened in the Fire Hall.
Watching Percy Hoover assemble bicycles in the new Emblem factory, and getting a look at the new Pierce-Arrow chassis when his brother would drive out to visit him, testing cars on the road before permitting a prospective buyer to take possession.
Observing the opening of the Evans National Bank in a one-room hole-in-the-wall in the Fire Dept. Bldg. under the able direction of George L. Peck.
Sliding down Lake Street hill from High Street to Main Street, dodging the horse-drawn sleighs and cutters at the intersection.
Celebrating with other Legionnaires at the opening of the first home for Newcomb-Long Post, in Schwert’s shed at the rear of the grocery store.
Trying to ride a bicycle on some of the plank sidewalks that had rotted during the winter. Remembering some of the walks in front of the stores were made of sandstone blocks four to six feet wide.
This article was written in January 1977 by Merritt Landon, the son of Weston Landon, the editor of the Angola Record until the late 1930s. Do you have any childhood memories?
AN OLD-TIMER REMINISCES
I’ve been wondering how many of the old-timers are left in Angola and what they remember of the early days of this century?
The definition of an Angola old-timer, I would say, is one who remembers one or more of these incidents:
The year Main Street was paved with brick, eliminating the ruts and mudholes.
The year the B&LE trolleys reached the end of Commercial Street.
Swimming in Big Sister Creek in back of Clayton Hanson’s.
Skating between Bundy’s Mill and the LS&MS RR concrete bridge.
Special guards patrolling the RR bridges in World War I.
The day the B&LE freight car ripped the front off the Fire Hall.
The day the LS&MS tried to take a chunk of village property in front of Frawley’s Hotel, and the firemen driving the section crew off with water hoses.
Lemmler’s dog "Rex" who chased all the trains when they roared over the Main St. Crossing, finally getting killed by one of them.
Swimming in the water reservoir at the Lyth Tile Co. plant when the management was too busy to order the swimmers out.
Getting samples of fresh macaroni at the Lograsso factory as it came out of the press.
Envying Ray Frawley when he was the tester for the Emblem motorcycles. Getting a wild ride on a makeshift seat behind him, while he tore off at high speed over dirt roads.
Watching in terror as a runaway team dragged a farmer down Main Street through the ruts and mud.
Observing the establishment of the Emblem bicycle works in the building across from the macaroni factory, with John Glass as Mgr.
Following the career of "Pi" Schwert, Angola’s only big league baseball player, who was on one of the early NY Yankee teams.
Playing pool and billiards in Vic Blackney’s establishment.
Trying to help drag the hose cart up Pat Carrol’s hill in a snowstorm, long before the Fire Dept. became motorized.
Wondering how Halloween pranksters got a lumber wagon up on top of the Standpipe. Also when others answered a need for coal at the Congregational Church, by dumping a wagonload on the front steps. The coal dealer had made the mistake of loading the wagon and leaving it outside on Halloween night.
Dancing at Du Drop Inn and Pine Lodge at a nickel a dance.
Catching rides with Frank Ingersoll and Joe Wiatrowski who met the trolleys and taxied people to the Lake Erie vacation spots. Earlier The
Angola House and Sam Cutler operated team-powered buses that easily held a couple of dozen vacationers.
Watching high school basketball games in the auditorium of the old school on High Street. There were no gyms in those days.
Watching Charlie Paul ply his trade as tinsmith in the rear of the A. F. Schultz Hardware Store.
Joining practically everybody in town at the first movie theater that opened in the Fire Hall.
Watching Percy Hoover assemble bicycles in the new Emblem factory, and getting a look at the new Pierce-Arrow chassis when his brother would drive out to visit him, testing cars on the road before permitting a prospective buyer to take possession.
Observing the opening of the Evans National Bank in a one-room hole-in-the-wall in the Fire Dept. Bldg. under the able direction of George L. Peck.
Sliding down Lake Street hill from High Street to Main Street, dodging the horse-drawn sleighs and cutters at the intersection.
Celebrating with other Legionnaires at the opening of the first home for Newcomb-Long Post, in Schwert’s shed at the rear of the grocery store.
Trying to ride a bicycle on some of the plank sidewalks that had rotted during the winter. Remembering some of the walks in front of the stores were made of sandstone blocks four to six feet wide.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Catalano Motors
Most of us are familiar with Catalano Motors located on Route 5 and North Main Street. If the number of cars in town that say Catalano Motors on the back is any indication, a lot of us do business with them.
But, did you know that the business was originally located on Route 20 at Cain Road? One of the oldest dealerships in Western New York, the picture above shows the original family-owned and operated business which began with an Oldsmobile franchise in 1948.
In 1993 they expanded to Chevrolet, and Pontiac was added in 1985. They moved to their current location in Evans Center in 1963.
Changes in the automobile industry have brought about the dissolution of both Oldsmobile and Pontiac, but the dealership continues, and if recent stock offerings are any indication, it’s stronger than ever.
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