CORNER CHAT: Our columns about the businesses in and around the
intersection of East Main Street and Bolivar Drive have sparked
further response.
Chauncey Kan of Panama City Beach, Fla., writes: “I, too,
remember the Market Basket at that corner. We lived in a house,
I’m guessing 1969 or 1970, where the Perkin’s is now located. The
Mutos lived across the street and the Stivers a few houses
west.”
“My brothers, Casey and Scott, and sisters, Kelly and Toni,
would check the coin slots at the car wash behind the Market Basket
every day. Occasionally we would find a dime or two and immediately
head to the Tasty Freeze. I think the Tasty Freeze later became a
Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. East on Bolivar Drive was the
Model T restaurant. What ever happen to that car? Is it still
there?”
We also heard from Suzie Hartman Miller of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
who has written to us before about collecting information on the
former Lincoln School.
She writes, “While everyone is caught up in the wonderful
nostalgia of the Tastee Freeze, Market Basket and Evans’ Roller
Rink, let’s go a little further out East Main and send me some of
your memories of Lincoln School. I’m still getting some great
feedback, but I know there are many more of you out there that have
great stories. It doesn’t matter what year you attended or if you
were just the parent of a child who attended there.”
“I also need to have someone give me a good background/history
of the school from the time it was built and why, to the closing,
for a special page in the book. Any volunteer researchers out
there? This might be a good student (summer vacation) project. Or
maybe there are some retirees out there who would like to give me
some input by researching in at the library.”
Suzie will be in Bradford from July 22-26 for BAHS’s 40-year
reunion. “I can collect your written data then if you let me know
how to get in touch with you,” she writes. Her e-mail is smiller112251@yahoo.com.
Memories and photos can be sent to her at 480 25th Avenue North,
St. Petersburg, Fla., 33704.
“Thank you so much and I can’t wait to see Bradford again!” she
writes.
