LOOK UP: If you haven’t been looking skyward, you’re probably
missing a lot of new arrivals and fly-bys.
Here’s our bird report from this week: On Thursday, we heard
from Skip Riekofsky who had seen two flocks of geese going over
Kushequa at 10:10 a.m.
Shirley Boser phoned to report 30-40 robins hanging around for a
couple days at the Case Cutlery plant on Owens Way.
On Wednesday, Ruth Zamberlan phoned to report seeing four robins
outside her window in Westline.
Trudy Victory reports that on Tuesday morning, she had seven
red-winged blackbirds at her feeder. “I was so surprised as I have
never seen that many before at one time. They were really something
to see.”
We also heard from John Fedak of Bradford on Thursday about that
photo we carried of the common mergansers flying over Tuna Creek.
He reports these birds also breed in this area and are quite common
all year long. And so, he says, they may not be going to Canada at
all but hanging out in Bradford for the time being.
STORE STORIES: Kay Ordiway writes us from Sun City Center, Fla.,
about those parking garages we had mentioned in “the olden
days”:
“Actually there were 3 – McAmbley’s on East Corydon Street also
housed cars. Remember, the oil and lumber people at the time mostly
lived in the large homes on Congress Street and did not have
garages. What a luxury to have a clean car delivered to and from
your home.
“My dad John Roth was also recruited to the General Garage from
Youngstown, Ohio, to do the pin-striping on the cars. It was a
hand-done operation with a steady hand being a talent.
“My dad was also the owner of the old Recreation Bowling Alleys
on East Main Street that was eventually sold to Mike Bagnato and
then known and moved to Seaward Avenue as the Byllye Lanes. The
Recreation Alleys were unique in that the lower floor was used for
duck pin bowling at one time.
“As a child I do remember the lower floor had a large ramp and I
am wondering if the original building had been a garage facility
prior to bowling alleys? Yes, they were known as alleys in those
days, not lanes as they are now,” she writes.
