As I continue the march around local businesses, I feel the need to range a bit farther past the square and out Market Street. Around the corner from the library was a travel agency. I never ventured in, but I was perennially amused by their window display that featured a mustached man about three feetContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (5)”
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York, PA Businesses (4)
On the corner of George and South streets, diagonally from Babe’s newsstand, sat Spangler’s Drug Store. Owned by a husband and wife, they were the local version of what would become chains such as Walgreen’s and CVS. I would occasionally buy film for my cameras there but have no real recollections of the place, unlessContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (4)”
York, PA Businesses (3)
Fischer’s Meat Market was one of those local places you could walk to for all of your groceries, preventing that area of York, PA from being a food desert—a term that wouldn’t surface for years and something we needn’t have worried about in the prosperous 1960s. The market had canned foods, veggies, and of courseContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (3)”
York, PA Businesses (2)
My reminiscences of businesses in the immediate area where I grew up in York, PA continues. There were two very close newsstands: Babe’s (at the corner of George and South Streets) and Carl’s (a few blocks away on George Street). Babe’s had a huge selection of comic books around and past the pinball machine. ThisContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (2)”
York, PA Businesses (1)
Recently, when passing on the way to Greensburg, PA, what used to be an office supply store, then a medical equipment company, and now an abandoned business, I thought of a stationery store in my hometown of York, PA. From there I began to muse on the other businesses in the immediate environment where IContinue reading “York, PA Businesses (1)”
Day Two: Stratford, Et Al
There’s a reason I describe my podcast Audio Chimera partly with the phrase, “the fragility of memory.” I’m looking at the description of the Britain and Ireland Highlights trip itinerary and I’m thinking, “What? Where?” I seem to have forgotten a detail already. The first destination of the day was one I was greatly lookingContinue reading “Day Two: Stratford, Et Al”
Bother Me? Not Tonight!
What was the last live performance you saw? The last live musical performance I saw was The Atlanta Rhythm Section (ARS). I really wanted to see them for two reasons. One, I like their songs, and back when I was an AM DJ, I played their songs frequently in rotation (because they were hits andContinue reading “Bother Me? Not Tonight!”
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