TUNE IN: The race for McKean County Commissioner and mayor in
the City of Bradford will be highlighted during a “Primary Preview”
segment on WPSU radio this morning.
Previewing the races are Era City Editor Sandra Rhodes and
Associate Editor Mike Schreiber. The segments will air at 7:33 and
8:33 a.m., and will also be on WPSU’s Web site as a podcast.
WPSU can be heard at 90.1 FM in the Bradford area and at 100.1
in the Bradford “bowl.”
HANK GOODMAN: Barney Snyder writes, “I read with sadness the
passing of Hank Goodman. Joe Vinelli’s article told me a lot I
didn’t know. We lived next door to Hank and Mary and their four
daughters. What a soft-spoken, hard-working, gentle giant of a
man.”
In case you missed it, sports editor Joe Vinelli had a column on
Mr. Goodman last Saturday.
Barney went on, “Joe should have had the opportunity to go to
Hank’s house and chat with him.”
“It seems that throughout his life, those who knew Hank well
really liked him and enjoyed his company. Joe would have been
enraptured and probably wanted to write Hank’s biography.
“Hank was a sparring partner with Joe Louis, a heavyweight
champion.
“I did not realize Hank tried to have the field named after Bob
Pflug. I can only guess that some very narrow-minded people had to
be against that. I’m sure Rock Denning would have agreed.”
TROLLEY TIME: Geraldine Kennedy Demarkey of Anaheim, Calif.,
writes: “In 1920, our family moved to a house on Jackson where it
met with Seaward Avenue and Kendall Avenue. The end of the
streetcar line was across from our house with its open-sided
waiting station.
“The streetcars still operated in 1927 because I sometimes rode
on it to the junior high school on School Street at the head of
Mechanic Street. Our family had no other transportation to town
except by streetcar.
“The car barn was situated on Congress Street where later the
Caterpillar Tractor Co. was situated.
“The trolleys traveled down Main Street to East Main and Foster
Brook. It also went out Congress Street to Lewis Run. As I have
written before, it also went to Salamanca and Olean by way of
Seneca Junction and earlier to Olean by way of Rock City stopping,
of course, at Rock City Park where there was a dance pavilion and a
merry go ’round.”
