LOOK UP: At 11:20 a.m. June 3, J. Elliott of Coudersport
witnessed a scene overhead: a very large airplane surrounded by
four jet fighter planes flying around the Coudersport area.

“The group flew like this for a couple of minutes then the jet
fighters broke away and the large airplane flew off toward the
east. Does anyone know what this was about?” we’re asked.

From what we’ve been told in the past, this region’s airspace is
used for military training exercises. While we have no specific
information about this fly-over, we’d bet that’s what it was. It’s
always very cool to see jet planes in these formations.

RIGHT DATE: A perceptive reader phoned Thursday to question a
date we’d used in our columns on the terminology used in the oil
industry.

Quoting Bob Slike, we had noted that a rig builder named Red
Seagren had cut oil, built and supervised the building of the first
wood standard rig in 1971 at Custer City. The first wooden standard
rig in 1971? our caller queried. Perhaps it was 1871? Nope, that
didn’t fit either.

A little investigation solved our mystery. The rig was one built
for the oil museum in Custer City.

ONE MORE: Raymond Tingley of Limestone, N.Y., adds another to
our ever growing list of businesses operating in the vicinity of
Bolivar Drive and East Main Street. Kentucky Fried Chicken had an
outlet where E-Z TV is now situated, he reports. It was there only
a short time, though.

BOOKS NEEDED: Do you have too many books? Don’t know what to do
with them?

Our Newspapers In Education coordinator Jane Larson would be
happy to have them.

She is having a used book sale on July 17 and 18 with proceeds
from the sale supporting the NIE program here at The Bradford Era.
There is a classified ad running daily in our paper that tells what
type of books are acceptable.

You can drop them off at our office or contact Jane for pick up
by calling 966-3880.

GLASS BAR: And before it was the Roman Villa, it was the Glass
Bar. A reader phoned to give us a little history on that restaurant
we had mentioned in a recent RTS. It was situated on Dorothy Lane
until about 15 years ago when it was torn down.