[AT] OT:(now tv)

[Larry D. Goss]

Yep.  Ruth Schoenemann was the bus driver for the whole western portion
of the township.  The Schoenemann's were Charter members of Mt. Calvary
(Fred, Bill, Henry, and Phil and their families) along with the Zelt's
(Ernie's and Walter's families), and the Fahlsing's (Martin, Sr. and all
his kids).  During WWII the 4-H club band that my brothers were in along
with some of the Manes' kids, Harry Stapleton, Ruby Bush, one or two of
the Kumer kids, and a couple of assorted mothers used to entertain in
the basement of the church for their socials.  I was one of the featured
soloists.  :-)  Anyway, Ruth made sure that the Mt. Calvary kids got
transported to and from school.  Remember Rev. Bachs?  I dated Marceille
a few times.  She was in my class at Elmhurst, but I knew her from many
years earlier because she took music lessons from the same lady I did
and her lesson appointment was immediately after mine on Monday
afternoons.  Ruth made sure that the Zelt kids got the honor of being
safety patrol's on the bus.  It was her way of sticking up for the kids
from Mt. Calvary.

I don't remember the name of the diner.  I'm not sure it ever had an
official name, but the flashing red neon sign on its roof was a
well-known landmark.  It had block letters about six feet high and all
it said was, "EAT  EAT  EAT".  In the early days, the super market next
to the diner was a Kroger.  Wooden floors, and the north 1/3 of the
building stocked livestock feed, salt blocks, and other farm items in
much the same way as TSC and Rural King do today.  Gerald Somers had the
doctor's office immediately next to the church, and of course I knew the
Trainer's at the Shell station (Stu and David) and the Henchen brothers
who worked for them.  Rainey's owned the Standard station on the east
side of Highway 1.  

It often was a tossup on buying feed at Kroger vs going over to
Mohlering's Mill on south Fairfield.  The mill is long gone, and so is
the Kroger store.  This was all before the Ridenour twins built their
service station on the SE corner of the intersection and before the
Dutch Mill Restaurant got started and before Henry Metting moved his dry
goods store from the Elzey block to a new building across the street
from the church.  It's also from the time when the Umber Hardware store
was located on the SW corner of the intersection of Old Trail and Lower
Huntington before they built next to Metting's and became associated
with Ace.

Most of the people are gone, but the Noble clan still has a presence in
the neighborhood, Umber's is now owned and run by a grandson, and the
Elzey name is still on the funeral home.

My Dad bowled in a league at Smitty's for years, and many of my friends
and classmates were pinsetters there -- Dick Lesh, Robert Levy, Bill
Dalman.  Bill married one of the Schoenemann's and he and I served in
the Air Force in France together.

Dad worked in 6-6 for years and then moved down to Bldg 18-3 until he
retired from GE around 1958.  He started working in 19-5 in 1927 when
that was the world center for refrigeration design.  My Dad's college
roommate (who later became my uncle) came to work at GE at the same time
and he ran the Works Lab for years.  It was a small building right next
to building 19 -- on the side toward Broadway.

Larry

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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Rhodes
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 7:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] OT:(now tv)

O yes went to school there, at Mt Calarvy Luthren for 8 yrs..2 room
school,
1 -4 on one side of the drive and 5 - 8 on the other..what was the name
of
the little diner just west of there, had the best beef dinners, O how
small
this world is, thanks the lookback, bowled at Smithy's lanes, I did a
contract ( project mgr) at GE Broadway bldg 19 3rd floor, we had the
whole
floor,  we design motor mfgg and robout control systems, my company
built
all the control cabinets

Jerry NW Ohio
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