FLOOD STORY: Judi Robinson writes, “I don’t know if it was the
’42 flood, but I remember as a young girl sitting on the top step
that went down to the sidewalk at 333 E Main St. and putting my
feet in flood water. I know my mother got angry with me for doing
it, but what was a kid to do with all that water around?”

We also heard from Bob Hasard of Eldred about the Portville to
Olean dike: “The material for the south section of the Portville
dike was taken from land owned by my parents, I think in ’49 and
’50.”

“They had two shovels in the pit, one being, was said, the
second largest in the U.S. at that time, being unloaded from the
Pennsy RR in sections, at the end of Tannery Hill Road. They hauled
dirt for two years, down the road, to build the dike, starting by
the Pennsy RR bridge and heading north.

“I was a young child then and recall walking with my dad up back
every night and looking at the machinery.”

ICE AGE: Nancy Houser Kania writes us on a couple topics, “Just
read in Round the Square that a reader wrote that Coach Bob Pflug
went on to coach at Brown. Could it be that he went to coach at
Princeton? That is my remembrance, but as I get older, things DO
get mixed-up.”

“I DO, however, remember getting blocks of ice delivered to our
house at 183 Pleasant St. (no longer standing). We had a small
icebox in a pantry annex to the kitchen.

“The deliverer would come in carrying the ice suspended on large
tongs and place it in the top section of the ice box. That would
probably be in the early or mid 1940s.

“But, somehow, I connect the name Cherry Street with the ice
delivery. Any help on this one?”

OLYMPIC NOTE: Allison Rettger points out a couple local
connections to the Olympic games: “There was Amy Rudolph from Kane
who ran in a few Olympics (I think – I know at least one Olympics)
as well as Coach Daly who coached the Chicago Bulls and the ‘Dream
Team’ for several years. I don’t know exact dates and the distance
of Rudolph’s run, but I know both were competing in the
events.”