Those kind of places and stories area a lot of fun to listen too and or in your case visit. At the bottom of the lane here, my neighbor 2 houses to the north-east, had a small shop, used to sell paint, maytag appliances, later years lawnmowers, there is a shot of him in the history book on the back of his delivery/service truck, early 50's. He was a connoisseur of old things. He was a great neighbor and friend. He had turn of the century gas engines, one of them was used to power a draw bridge, well raise the center deck, over the nearby Hudson, G.E. Schenectady, along with the generator, on static display, meticulously restored/maintained + several others and you would see him every year at the fair with a hit/miss engine powering a corn sheller if I recall. He had more old things in there, an old coal furnace which looked like a 50's robot. He passed in '90. His wife in '98, it was all auctioned off, I went and took photos of it all, the person involved with the estate saw it fit to secretly give me something from his shop that christmas, a giant nut, no threads, but bigger than my hand and several pounds. I remember it as a kid and was telling the story, while attending the auction, at how I marveled at the size of this, who would have a wrench to fit that, being a kid, bicycles, small engines, tractors and or equipment around the farm, it was one of the things I remembered from his shop, and she decided because of the story I told about being in and around this little shop I should have it. He used it to keep a door open or something, and it has his signature on it, it has a brass flat link chain attached, a piece of lead wrapped around that 3/4 the way up and a hook on the end, not an ordinary one, but one made of a common nail, he was one those guys who could fix or make anything, as he often did. He worked at Behr-Manning and or later it was Bendix. Your story reminded me of old Lou, his shop and such, I should dig out those photos, he had a nice collection in that shop, I can hear still hear him using that cleaning tip off the air hose, daily, that and the liberty bell sized old Meneely bell. Every day at noon time he would ring it, and I could look across the 2 back yards between us and the barns, Lou would be out there pulling that rope, with his shop apron on and his favorite hat on too, that bell was huge, and you could hear it all over, can still hear it now. Firehouse sirens still go off at noon, so I guess thats why he did it ? I'll never really know, but where have these guys all gone, you'd just love to sit one afternoon over a beer or two and talk about things like this. The local senator bought the bell at auction for like 8K and it was donated, placed down near an urban environment where I am sure the locals probably defaced it by now. Maybe not, I have not seen it since.
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