Re: Your home town than and now!!!! chime in all

Posted by jimg.allentown on April 23, 2016 at 08:08:12 from (108.2.196.109):

In Reply to: Your home town than and now!!!! chime in all posted by jocco on April 22, 2016 at 15:56:47:

The little place that I grew up in has not changed a lot. There was a New York Central train track running through the center of it, with an old post office, a freight platform, a little "mom and pop" type store, and a feed mill. Add to that a milk processing plant and an old hotel. That was it. Maybe 25 to 30 houses, all along a "main" street and a couple of side streets. There was no such thing as "blocks." We had no idea what the city folks were talking about when they referred to blocks.
The feed mill was called "the beanery" and there was only occasional activity there. The freight platform was long abandoned. The post office was closed in the 1980s, and in the building is now some sort of railroad club. The milk processing plant was known as the creamery. They made cheese and butter. The little store was run by a brother and sister. They were older folks, and the store was closed around 1980. All of the rest stayed pretty much the same except for some new developments on the "outskirts" so to speak and the occupants of the houses have changed. Some generationally, some by attrition.
This little place - too small to be a town, village, or even hamlet - was situated about 5 miles north of Skaneateles Lake and about 4 miles from the village of Elbridge, New York.
As I recall as a child, the winters were harsh, summers were humid, and farming was the main surrounding activity. I worked for several of the local farmers when the season and occasion warranted it. Pitching bales, shoveling manure, pulling weeds, mowing, and whatever else I could do to get a little bit of spending money.
Today, there is not much that I miss from New York state. Politicians are crooked, taxes are high, weather is lousy, etc.
The things that I DO miss are Heid's Hotdogs in Liverpool, New Hope Mills from Moravia, Hoffman's hot dogs made by Syracuse Sausage Company, and Doug's Fish Fry in Skaneateles. All within a reasonable drive back in the old days. So much for nostalgia. I have no burning desire to go back there. My life and home are HERE now. All of my friends, contacts, and resources are where I now live - in a city of all places. BUT... I enjoy not having to drive 5 miles or more to the nearest grocery store or hardware store. I also enjoy having municipal water, sewer, and trash pickup services.

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