LOCAL ANGLE: Frances Evans of Marietta, Ga., was recently
watching a movie, “Spartan,” made in 2004.

“A man looking for another man finds him and the man who is
found, says, ‘How did you find me?’ To which he replies, ‘You left
this behind.’ It was a metal chain with a clip on it which read,
Mike’s Feed & Seed, Bradford, Pa. Was I surprised.

“Is there, or, was there ever such a place or was it made up for
the movie? I’m thinking, did someone in Bradford have something to
do with the movie? Love to know if someone else saw it beside me
and my husband.”

There is a Hollywood screenwriter who has a connection to
Bradford. His wife has an aunt who lives here, maybe? It crops up
every now and then in a movie or TV show and often generates
exactly this question from Frances. And, for some reason, we can
never remember the exact details of this local connection.

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MORE STORES: Valerie Yerdon writes us from Bradford: “My
grandmother Leona Warner (also known as the Barbie Doll Lady for
her handmade Barbie Doll clothes) had The Leona Shop located on
Kennedy Street located in one of the sections where Jensen’s paint
store was located.”

“She had to close her store because the original Broaster moved
in next to her and her insurance company would not insure her due
to the hot grease issue in those old wooden buildings.

“My husband’s father owned the Kalamozoo Store on West
Washington Street next to Ruben’s and Bove’s. There was also a
little luncheonette and Studley’s music store in the same vicinity.
On the other side of the street Rollie Singer had the Singer Sewing
Machine Store.”

Marlene Ash Dixon of Glen Burnie, Md., writes a few personal
recollections about a couple stores in the 1960s: “Davis Bakery on
Mechanic Street is one. On Saturday mornings, my dad would bring us
home fresh-baked hard crescent rolls. They had seeds on them. They
would still be warm and our family would eat them immediately. The
other store is DeSales candy shop. I loved the molasses sponge
candy and have never seen anything close to it. If I remember
correctly they could not make it in the summer in case the weather
turned too warm as the square candy would collapse.”