IN THE NEWS: A couple weeks ago, a photo of blowing snow at
Bradford Area High School made the news on television in Richmond,
Va.
That’s the word from V-Anne Danielson who got the report from
her sister, Betsy Benning Grebb in Heartfield, Va.
Apparently, the photo had been pulled from the Bradford High
website on a day in early March where winter was wreaking havoc on
the region. The weatherman reportedly explained to his audience
that Bradford, Pa., is a little town up by Lake Erie.
SIMPLE TIMES: Don Hunt of Port Allegany writes, “I enjoyed RTS
on Feb. 28 when you talked of prices in 1937 – gas at 20 cents per
gallon.”
“As a young lad of 18, year 1963, and courting my now-wife of
almost 43 years, living in Stanley, N.Y. – she in Phelps, N.Y. I
used a lot of fuel. Gas was 25 and 9/10 cents per gallon. So, in a
27-year span, it went up 6 cents. The next 27 years to 1990 up
about 50 cents. The next 16 years to 2006, $2.
“I loved those simple times of the 1950s and ’60s. But how many
of us would give up what we have to go back to 30 cents per gallon
or a 2-cent newspaper?”
JUST A STORY: Pat Franco of Rew writes, “Some time ago, a man
wrote in to RTS about a brass cannon above Lewis Run on a
hill.”
“When we were kids in the 1940s and ’50s, we walked the hills a
lot because there was no TV. It was something to do.
“We never found the cannon, so we believe it was just somebody’s
story. Most of my buddies are gone that I used to walk with, but I
was always curious about that.
“There was a small path cut through the woods, and they said
Lafayette made it passing through to help Washington in the
Revolutionary War. Also claims that’s how Lafayette got its
name.”
STREETCARS: Charles Marion Hallock Jr. follows up on our
continuing comments on street cars in Bradford: “My father Charles
Sr. was a motorman/conductor on the street car.ðI was born in 1924
and remember my parents telling of taking me for rides on my dad’s
run. I remember many times in later years meeting folks from Lewis
Run, who would always call my dad ‘Mr. Conductor.'”
