HI AGAIN: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? If so, we
hope you missed us yesterday. To give our entire staff a day off,
we take holidays only two days a year – Christmas and the Fourth of
July. We sincerely hope you didn’t walk all the way to the mailbox
yesterday only to be disappointed. Oh, well, no worry. We’ll be
with you now until July.

MAIN STREET: Tom Ewell of Montgomery, N.Y., hopes to jog our
readers’ memory.

He writes, “With all the news of store closings on Main Street,
how about a little quiz to see if people remember some of the other
stores that used to be downtown. Here are the names, you try and
guess where they were:

“Beezer’s Appliances and Sporting Goods

Taylor Photo Shop

Yampolski’s Store

Where was the Downbeat before it moved to its present
location?

Sherwin Williams Paint Store

Western Union Office

Gray’s Drug Store

J.J. Newberry Five and Dime

J.C. Penney’s Store

Brown’s Boot Shop

The Firestore Auto Center was in two locations before it moved
to the Mall.

Mayer Brauser’s was in another location before they moved to
where they are now.

Park Drug Store

Ott & McHenry had two stores. Where was the second one?
Bonus Point if you can name the always charming lady that worked in
the second location and always had a smile on no matter how crappy
the customer was.

Where was the State Store before its present location?

Grey’s Auto Store (No connection with Gray’s Drug Store).

DeSalle’s Candy Shop

Johnson’s Restaurant

Bradford Sub Shop

McCrory’s Five and Dime

S.K. Tate Furs

Bradford National Bank

Davis Cake Shop and Cafeteria

Emery Hardware

Men’s Store at the head of Chestnut Street. on the Kennedy St.
side.

Barnsdall’s Office Supplies

I realize there are many more that have come and gone, so maybe
some other readers can add to this list. Only four months till we
can dig leeks again – think spring!”

Before you call or write to ask where these stores are, be
forewarned that we are familiar with some of the locations – but
not all. In fact, we hope you will be the ones to tell us!

TODAY’S QUOTE: “Journalism has the ability to consume your
life,” said Tarun Tejpal, Indian journalist, author, 2005. Today’s
quote is from our Freedom Forum calendar.