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Oh,for a return to such a self-respecting discipline which was to contrast the program which went on "over there".I don't pray for another depression...But our current admin may produce such a reinactment when frustrated,desperate,financially-strapped  powers again march against each other...

That store with the larger awning next to the Hogan-Martin store was Woolworths...I worked there as a school student and"floor walker"in the early fifties..My job was to report to the management anybody who was shoplifting..It was a shocking introduction to me as a kid about petty crime in DuBois...

The Quiet Woman featured,in a painting, a seated, HEADLESS woman.

Wardens of either jail may lose their position when inmates who have been released for charity work come back with drugs. Commissionors can't tolerate that.

Robert Frost always said, "Provide,provide or somebody else'll provide for ya".....

Get a plot with a perpetual care contract.This Rumbarger thing should show us that our neighbor or schoolkids or some disabled do-gooder and certainly some local municpality will never show up to tend your momma's grave...If you buy it it's your property and how it looks FOREVER depends on you...

All of the old rails to trails will need volunteers.......They're great ...Only a few will ever use or appreciate them..WE who understand can make some here..,,,,Own a bike..Get together with the planners,join a work group, and do some of the work...... maybe just by yourself.......I think the old Highland Street tunnel shown runs under that school property....

Our beloved"flat" flooded many years as flood control by the US. Corps of Engineers of Sandy Creek hadn't occured yet..The Acme was long gone when I was a kid so 1936,2 years before I was born, could be right............But the picture really gets me because of the TAVERN sign on the other side of the tracks...The building's gone but it became Carmella's Restaurant,a neat, popular place the whole town ate and drank in from the end of the 40's to the early 60's..The bar was on Long Avenue with the restaurant behind it. The door to the restaurant was along the tracks..In the early 50's the most popular meal was the spagetti dinner for .65 cents and the shrimp dinner for what looked wildly expensive at $1.25..I was 12 or 13 .And OMG,once a month,in the early 50's, they ran a special with 2 spagetti dinners for $1.00.If my folks went out of town they gave me a dollar and I ate BOTH dinners and then staggered up Long avenue.....

I wish I always got an absolute truth for every mystery on earth ..maybe later?

It's the time of  the Korean war..1951 to 1953..The car is a Packard...A State official died ?...Game over..

Checked..The hood ornament makes the car a Packard..

I'm 73..The car is a Hudson..(from Eastside Garage)... What gets it for me.Is the new parking meters(people hated them).(One appeared in front of our house) and the delibert disregard for them by the driver of the car..(DuBoisites hated them).... I think it's 1951(+/-) just after we declared war in Korea..The recruiting posters show the war was cranking up..Many DuBois reserves went after marching around in the Reserve Training Facility (now The Hitching Post) and bivouacing up where Coke Hill is now..I rode my bicycle up to watch them just before they went.....

You can make your plant bloom again....It will be a spiritual experience....My grandmother had a number of them which always amazed the family iwhen they showed up for the holidays.....She always claimed it was the sunlight,temperature and contolled humidity..But you'll need  to pick the right sunny window ...

I always heard that one of the Bundys in the original settlement had a servant named Buleah.quite a talkative type who got around alot ..When people met her and always knew she'd have something to say,they'd usually say,"What say Buleah?   ( SABULA).  

1950's:    Charley Snyder ,the old Camp Ranger(deceased),would have a bonfire during which he would tell "ghost stories". Then he'd say,"OK,who wants to "go up there"and see (where "somebody was killed",or where the "old guy  was found and is sometimes seen') and a bunch of the brave would set out with him up the "fawnskin" or the Fire Road. Eventually they'd all run back to camp when they "lost" Charley..Next day some would say they saw "it"....Or something in the story....Great stuff...I still think we can see just what we want to see.....

Anything that makes money..Ya know.............Penn State has permitted their name to be attached to PRS (Paranormal Research Service)...as seen on TV.....Watch it?.. It's just heat sensing devices,recorders..etc..(highly technical ..really?).... ABC is paying money for this stuff...Duke has had a department of Paranormal Research  since the 40's..

I would say that one of the more popular haunting stories surrounds the boy scout camp on camp mountain run road.  It may be a joke to scare the boy scouts......or is it?  

Boo !!!!Heh,Heh..Ya it's true there were always hauntings at the Scout Camp ..Because I worked there and participated in a bunch of them..What years are you talking about?

See reply twelve: My father ,like the rest of the local kids, never failed to visit the Avenue Theatre on Long avenue in the 1930's when the Tom Mix Circus appeared in the Driving Park in DuBois and Tom himself strolled through the downtown and would sit in the theatre next to his mother.They always showed his movies free that week to hype Tom's circus . What my dad always told me was that ,in the fight scenes, Tom's mother would stand up and scream,........"Git'um Tom.... I have no doubt that that car in the picture was provided by Tom who loved cars.and died in a Cord on a backroad, I think, in Arizona. ..My dad said that ,except for a very few, the valley locals were dirt poor..

FEDUP: I just saw the date on the picture of the rig and got swept into my recollection of the Driftwood gas rush.....I remember riding down there when a well was scheduled to "come in"  .......I'm an old guy..I was in school at the time.I could be off by a few years.. Sorry you missed out on your "millions''....But,.it was all a very memorable local event...And when the Beverly Hillbillies came out all the locals who had watched the "Driftwood Rush" smiled...A phone call to any of "them old boys" down there would tell us when they drilled and "hit it" .....

In the 1950's some Texans arrived in the Driftwood,Benezette and Mix Run area on reports that natural gas could be found there......It was....Then a myriad of residents of that area signed just about any piece of paper put in front of them approving drilling on their property and thereby became "millionaires".I say"millionaires" because most of them managed to quickly blow their "millions",if the well came in, in a very short time on stuff like jewelry,children who took what they could steal,fancy cars, homes in Florida etc. DuBoisites,especially people who were owed money for debts of the newly prosperous ,and the local banks who were asked to form estates for some of the few careful guys and then all manner of rip-off artists who would turn up at your place tomorrow if you were suddenly aclaimed "rich",created a real "gold rush"atmosphere which was a real entertainment for our whole region...When I see that drilling rig in the picture I'm reminded about what money can do. I'll never forget the story of the Driftwood gas rush (I watched it) and how a whole bunch of money came to that area and then disappeared in a year or two....

For you landscape aficionados:Penn State (UP) is currently building an immense arboretum out on Park Avenue opposite East Halls and the new Dickinson Law School (in front of the president's residence)..PSU does two things well:They play football and grow trees.....

There are pictures of the old DuBois Mansion at the DuBois Historical Society on Long Avenue opposite the Dollar Store.

I am now unsure of just which hotel the barber shop in the picture was in.It may however have been in the Hotel DuBois, that hotel which is shown above.The person taking the picture knew that the person looking at him was much more prosperous than he was. No one I knew would have ventured into such a place because we simply couldn't have afforded a two dollar haircut. My father,who worked in one of the banks was accoustomed to paying, at most ,fifty cents and kids usually payed .35.This was even up to the 40's.  During the 30's depression you got your haircuts at home.. The hotels were for travelers and business men who came to town on the train.The highways were rough,slow and very dangerous especially in the winter. It was not easy to get to DuBois from Buffalo or Pittsburgh otherwise.

I think this barber shop was on the first floor of the Logan Hotel which stood where the parking lot now is behind the Park Ave Sheetz. Although not the finest hotel in town ,the Logan featured a good dining room and very reasonable sercice. The Logan stood, though largely in disrepair,up until the nineteen sixties when a vagrant ,who had gotten into one of the old rooms, smoked in bed thereby starting a fire  which destroyed most of the old building which was then razed.

The absence of both the Lakeside Church ,the Country Club and any cars in the Tannery Dam photo would ,I think, date the shot to 1910 or thereabouts..Also:I'm 70 and remember that old grocery store interior then known as Krogers which occupied part of the space where Joe's Tux shop is now .You had to go up one step and pull open a screen door to get in. Anyway it looked just like that......It's fun to imagine that we could have (and sometimes in winter) gotten as far as Big Run or Falls Creek on that open-sided DuBois Traction Company trolley which is shown stopped next to the Commercial Hotel (later renamed the Pershing after the visit of General Pershing to DuBois). If you caught a cold on the trolley(actually needed antibiotics,etc.)  you lay at home and usually died.Kids and old people commonly died in winter and a black carriage from the funeral carrier came to your parents house after your home funeral ,picked up your body and took it directly to Rumbarger or Mormingside to avoid common contagion like the flu or typhoid ,etc.. Our hospitals were for those with treatable problems  (there were't many of those) and were very crude in comparison to today.