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From: "Vee L. Housman" <>
Subject: Re: [FOLKS] Re: NYNIAGAR-FOLKS-D Digest V03 #105
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 02:59:59 -0400
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Oh Lordy, Bob,

You have no idea how much your message meant to me at this VERY late hour!
Regarding the "main drag" under the railroad viaduct, from Maple Avenue and
the Deveaux section of the town, that started out as being Lewiston Road and
after it dipped down under the viaduct, it became Main St. BTW, I have a
special memory of the viaduct (which for you younger whippersnappers was a
bit of a concrete tunnel under the railroad tracks overhead). I remember oh
so clearly May 8, 1945 which was VE Day (Victory in Europe). I picked up a
piece of rock or stone and carved or wrote my name plus the date on the wall
of the viaduct to commemorate the occasion. Such was the form of graffiti
in those days!

Oh my goodness, what a tragedy when we would see those blue stars in the
windows turn to gold!! Even at my young age, I knew what that meant. We
had lost another one of "our boys."

I guess I better go to bed now before I cry my eyes out in remembering.
vee

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Subject: [FOLKS] Re: NYNIAGAR-FOLKS-D Digest V03 #105


> Vee et al
> I too remember the market in Niagara falls named Loblaws but the
location
> escapes me.
> We lived at 1310 Maple Avenue and we had to go south on whatever was the
> main drag and under the railroad, viaduct, and as I recall it was a street
or
> two south from the railroad and then to the left or east, During the war I
was
> at the tender age of 9 and more and was in charge of the ration stamps.
Since
> there were 5 or more of us we had plenty. But the folks across the street,
Ross
> I think was the name, had 5 sons in the service. As the war passed on the
5
> blue stars all turned to gold. We used to give our extra ration stamps to
them
> since the allowance for two adults was not good.
> We left the Falls in Aug 1944 and moved to Tucson for family health. I
have
> been here ever since. Mom and Dad have gone and some have moved so there
is
> just my Sister and I now. Another brother is moving back to AZ this year.
> Vee I will take you up on the lookup offer someday.
> Thanks for the memories.
> Bob AZ
>
>


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