Ignatius

Lucky Foodland! Foodland was a large, regional chain. Lucky Foodland was our local incarnation (or take/use) of the name.

If I remember correctly the market that was located where Hoss's is, was named "Lucky Foodland".

Bring on more photos! Love 'em!

Would the third photo be the club that was located back of The FloorShow, going towards where Swack's Fertilizer was?

Did the name "Carmella's" ever change? When I remember the name "George's", in thinking about it, it was because it was run by a guy name George (maybe George Hart or something similar?). The location is easy to remember (particularly if you ever went in the State Store). I remember the Chinese Laundry and one of the neatest shops around (same area) Clear Rock Archery. They were a mini-mini-Cabella's.

Fancy kraut 3 for $.17! This has to be pre WWII. The other building across the tracks, was a restaurant through the 60's I believe. George's, or something like that? Building burned down, in what, 1975?? Come on you DuBois natives! I'm from Sykesville (DuBois now), enlighten us out of towners!

Not to worry, so do I (and I feel it)!

How about you long term DuBois residents getting another "what year is it photo up"? One that you know the answer to! Also, how about some of the older DuBois fireman on the forum, post some pictures of some of the devastating downtown fires that occurred in the 50's, 60's & 70's? Maybe Dub has something from the Courier archives?

I agree for best thread of the week! How about some more "guess the date pictures"? On a sidenote, for those who like this thread, do yourself a favor and take a walk through the downtown area in the evening (no neon glow) to get a feeling of what this town was (and also what it can be again!). Even with many of the old buildings gone, there remains many architecturally interesting sites.

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

Thanks for the link! Very interesting!

When the brewery closed for good in 1972, a friend & I were working for the 2 local gentlemen who purchased it for the real estate and scrap value. We went into a place that, for all practical purposes, had just closed the doors and turned out the lights. The pub, in the basement of the office building still had beer on tap and since the electric was still on, the refrigeration still worked, keeping the beer cold. Naturally, being good, upstanding Penn State boys, we ate our lunches in the tap room and did our best to empty the kegs. We worked that summer scrapping tanks, pipes, machinery. This went on for several years, and we worked weekends while we were back in class, as well as Christmas vacation. We knocked the holes in the side of the brew house so that the large brew tanks could be removed. I remember how we moved those things to the holes, hitched them to a crane provided by H. Shakespeare, and then lowered them to the ground. After rigging the first tank or two, we got brave enough to ride the tanks down. There are a lot more stories to be told, but, to protect the guys we worked for, I dare not tell them on a public forum! Talking like this, about something that's now some 38 years ago, makes me feel like an old geezer! As a post script, I looked at the brewery site in 2005 as a possible relocation site for my business. My interest was converting the remaining buildings into an industrial use once again, and restoring/maintaining the old office building. The city was able and willing to deal, but the ceramic business that owned part of the property was not. End result was once again some DuBois historical properties ended up demolished.

The blight in our area was caused by plants purchased at a large, local home center. The plants came from a Maryland grower and were first thought to have only been distributed in the New England States and part of upstate NY. I've been harvesting cherry tomatoes for several weeks, and my "big boys" are green and growing. I've done a lot of pruning on growths near the base and end of stalks to keep both species somewhat more contained than I usually have them (read: I'm usually a lazy gardener!). If in the next several weeks I lose any plants to the blight, next year I will simply plant an entire garden in flowers (and maybe for the next several years).

So far so good for my garden. Last year I lost all my tomato plants and in reading up on the blight, it was suggested that if you were not careful in pulling out all damaged plants, that the blight would carry over to this year. I pulled my plant in mid August last year and covered the vacant part of the garden with black plastic to kill everything remaining and it seems to have done the job. I also heard you can also kill the blighted parts with formaldehyde, however I did not try it. Some damn groundhog got all my brussel sprout plants trimmed to nothing, although he hasn't returned since his last feast on which I sprinkled a liberal amount of Sevin powder(probably still has a belly ache if he is still pushing air!).

Thanks all! Asparagus party at my house in two years!

Mine are tall and spindly - should I put some stakes or support them so the stalks don't fall or break? Also, should I cut them back this fall? Thanks! T.

I planted asparagus sets sometime ago, and I've got spindly plants about 16" high. Should these be staked? Should I cut these back? Help!!!! I need guidance!!!!!!!

For enjoyable "walk into the past", some evening, when the weather is a bit cooler, just after twilight and before fully dark, take a walk through various parts of town. You'll see the "ghosts" of what neighborhoods were meant to look like decades ago. One particularly interesting neighborhood is going up Long Ave. past the old Rec Center, towards the Hahne house, then loop around Highland, going down Washington back to Brady. There were some gorgeous homes in this town! Much of the downtown area has been "remodeled" beyond the original intentions.

You taught at Oklahoma? My wife taught there (she was also at Sykesville) a number of years ago also (she's at the middle school now). Our ten year old daughter will be in fifth at Oklahoma this coming school year. This past year, her class had a "generalized" overview of American history.

Does anyone in the area sell Rhubarb sets? How about asparagus sets?

This sounds most interesting! Should we wear nametags with our "GoDuBois" screen names?

What you have mentioned are the items I've noticed. Where and when is the meeting? If some of us from GoDuBois attend, can we keep our presence at the meetings away from a public forum?

In beginning this thread, I did not mean to disparage the recent efforts to clean up the cemetery. The cemetery is now at the state of showing more complicated work that needs done! Who is the group?

Just wait until the day you get a chipmunk inside your house. We had one a few years ago. He was an elusive critter, with us seeing him a few times and him driving Molly, our beagle, crazy. One day I was taking a snooze in my easy chair and something woke me and there was Mr. Chipmunk sitting on my shoulder. I don't know who jumped the highest. We saw him run under one of the tall radiators we have in our main living room. Got my air rifle and it was like a carnival shooting tent with me trying to hit him (didn't). Finally I got a sticky rat pad at Lowes, put it out with a dab a peanut butter and ole Mr. Chipmunk stuck himself to it. This happened while I was at work, with my wife telephoning me, asking what to do. I told her to put gloves on and take the sticky pad and chipmunk outside, which she did, and that I would deal with him later. Came home a bit later and went out to again meet Mr. Chipmunk. Nothing left on the pad, except a portion of his paw and some fur. Felt real bad.

OK - how do we get started?