Foxfan

I'm sure your great-grandparents would be proud to know that you have no love for them.  They are the reason you're here, whether you knew them or not.   Volunteering to help the living is important but so is caring for the dead.  Sure, we can let the grass, trees, poison ivy and blackberry bushes grow.  It would make it a great home for assorted wildlife; skunks, groundhogs, raccoons and rats.  But what does that say about the community of DuBois.  It was a beautiful, mismanaged cemetery that can be maintained and improved with help.  Volunteerism is it's own reward.

You forgot snakes....You're making it sound like Disney's Wild Kingdom....If I devoted maybe 4 days a week, I could hit all the cemeteries in the area, where I have relatives buried. But, you're just trying to make me feel bad...Ain't workin....P.S. It was in about the same condition 60 years ago, so at least it isn't getting much worse..

Foxfan - I don't think it is about being noble or not. It is just shocking to hear that someone doesn't care about the condition of a loved one's grave site. Most people think differently about respecting the dead - no matter how far back in their ancestry.

I never met my great grandparents, so I can't really include them in my roster of 'loved ones'...and they never knew of my existence, since I hadn't arrived on the scene during their short alloted time on earth. Now let me go and cut the grass in my yard, so my living relatives don't think I moved to Tahiti to be a beach bum....

 

My great grandparents are there, but they haven't let me know, from the other side, if they are concerned about their graves...Some things just don't matter.   It does matter. The freaking cemetary sits right on MAIN ST and needs upkeep.   Laziness on the part of relatives that actually have kin there. I would be embarrassed to even admit I have relatives there. and sit by and do nothing about it.

 

Maybe hundred plus years old graves are important to YOU....That is why tombstones are made of granite....The aren't going away. I know where to find them, but I'm not going to use my energy for sentimental work to please you, or anyone else. I'll save my efforts for the living, and minimal efforts for the more recently departed. I have probably a hundred relatives buried around the area, most will have to rest in peace, on their own..That's the facts of life, or death if you prefer...So feel free to call me lazy, if that makes you feel so noble..Many of the posts on GoDubois, not only this one, it has to be realized, are made to feed the ego of the poster, and bear little reality to any real action.  If you have time and energy to clear brush at cemeteries, by all means, do so...

 

Well then, Foxfan, that's your prerogative to just lie there, on this side, & do nothing.

Yes it is. Thanks for pointing that out...

Maybe a volunteer secretary could call the last names on the headstones to see if their children or grand children want to help take care of their cemetery.

My great grandparents are there, but they haven't let me know, from the other side, if they are concerned about their graves...Some things just don't matter...

chef boy r dee  out of the box

Yes..Appian Way is also excellent.[kidding]. but back then, it was all we knew about...That was the first 'pizza pie' I ever tasted...To those youngsters here, there was a time in history that pizza was not a staple of our diet .....those were kits with dry flour for the crust , yeast, cheese, and little can of sauce, in a little box...It was definitely a do it yourself project...

Photo's taken the Summer of 2010 of the Maple Avenue Railroad Bridge and Railroad tracks over the Creek on Maple Avenue.

If we were being sensible, we would be lobbying to get this eyesore railroad bridge removed from the location over Maple Avenue. It is a major hazard, and has not had any maintenance for decades. Or are we going to wait until it or the decking crashes down onto the roadway below. I wonder if it is ever inspected for structural integrity and safety..It would be a major boost to the area to have it gone. To try and preserve this monstrosity so a handful of bicycle riders can ride over it is pie in the sky stuff...

Unlike the walkway, there is nothing "scenic" about that area. As I remember it from years ago, it is a pretty nasty place. It certainly is as remote as you can get. I wouldn't go there alone, especially in the old tunnel, and definately not a place you would want kids to go.

As long as it is from private funding I'm OK with it....as a state or a country we cannot spend monies on programs like this.

True.. A person can still spend their own money on anything they want..If this project is totally, privately, built and maintained, and insured, and endowed, ...go for it..

Seriously, why on earth do we "need" a bicycle tunnel from nowhere to nowhere?...Isn't Sandy Township and DuBois already connected? It sounds like another scheme to use up some money, from somewhere...What is the picture of? not the tunnel being discussed......Can you imagine the mischief magnet that would be?

Very,very nice....

 

When I was a kid Merritt Edner's was right across the street from where Frank's is. The building they were in is right beside the road that goes along the tracks back to now, Giant Eagle. I remember going there with my Dad to get his tax return done.

Yes, they were there, too. I think that was their second location.

 

Sorry that was the A & P that was up Franklin St.

The A & P was on Washington  Ave, half way between Brady and Jared Street. The only place it ever was, that I know of, till it built the building where the auto parts store is, going into Martin's. It lasted there only a short time. I remember going to the A & P with my mother. We had rationing tokens and coupons during the war. Some items were not available, and some were restricted, as how many you could buy.

Did the state store move to the present location directly from that site, or was there a place in between?   I think the original Merritt Edner's justice of the peace office was along the tracks. People went there for all kinds of domestic disputes, licenses, etc...I remember Mr. Edner as a real authority figure in town, to me anyway..

That picture was earlier than 1953. The Acme was in the post office building on Scribner and N.Brady, the earliest i can remember, I think in  the mid 40's, before moving to the new store on Liberty Blvd. The building pictured, was the State Liquor store before moving to the present location. Was there a location between then? The building across the track, was Carmella's restaurant, prior to burning down, around...1975 or 1980??    Anyone remember?..I can't remember the flood, at that time frame. That low area has flooded many times. There was a hand Chinese Laundry on Franklin St. a couple buildings from Carmella's , owned by a Chinese man, named Sam Shing.

Sorry! No prize!

I do NOT know the year the picture was taken. My dad had this picture from his parents in a box. I thought it'd be neat to see some guesses from DuBois people and some older folks.

I had guessed the car to be a late 40s Desoto but this is way before my time!

I really don't see how you got 48 stars? I have a much higher resolution scan of this picture and I don't even see 10 stars. But maybe you found something I didn't see?

 

I will agree that the picture is from the early 50s but THERE IS NO DEFINITE ANSWER since the person(s) who could have taken the picture are no longer with us.

 

It's still fun guessing right?

 

I'll see what else I can find and do this again.

OLDER FOLKS?......I resemble that remark!.......

fun to play

You're the winner so far.

Finish this sentence.....A contest with no answer is _____     ____    _____      { no, there is no prize}

Car parked illegally!  Can make out the US Route 219 sign clearly.  Can also make out the recruiting sign of the three branches of the military.  Don't appear to be leaves on the shrubbery.  With flags at half mast, I would put the date at sometime after JFK's funeral.  If I remember correctly the day of the funeral was bright, sunny, but cold (a Monday).  The previous day was overcast and rainy (Sunday, Sykesville).  I remember sitting in front of the fireplace in my parents home, Sunday lunch, but eating a bowl of home made chicken noodle soup, watch everything on TV.  All of a sudden right in front of the world, Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered.

 

1963

.....I remember that day, too.....

The car is parked too close to the intersection, I wonder if they got a ticket. Not at a meter, either.....I will  say 1957.... Who important died around then?..What's the prize?

That looks like a Hudson, maybe early 1950's?

Theres also an old Indian burial out on #8 road just outside of Punxsy thats suppose to be haunted, ive never found it but my brother did.

 

Ive also heard of a house that is called "The round house", not sure where it is but if you use a Ouiji board there, then take it home, it is suppose to disappear and if you go back to the round house, it will be there.

I remember something about the 'round house' which would have been the railroad yard, being haunted. A round house is where the locomotive of the train is put on a revolving 'turntable' to make it turn around to go a different direction. I don't remember any more, other than the round house being haunted...Maybe phantom trains or something..

Celebrate Cody's long happy life Snellma......

From the Courier-Express, Friday, May 28, 2010:

"Area veterans organizations will honor the first DuBois soldier killed in World War I (James Patterson) and all other veterans buried in Rumbarger Cemetery in a ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 5."

Thats the first time I have heard this historical fact. Interesting....

 

Is this the stone house near to the school bus bldg.?  How far back of the stone house would the WigWam be?

No, I don't know who built the stone house, I know who lived there, but I will not invade their privacy. The Wigwam is at the top of the hill, to the right of Lincoln Drive. It is privately owned, so I will not reveal that either...