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From: lbolende <>
Subject: [OHCLER] Re: OHCLERMO-D Digest V02 #253
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:01:19 -0400
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Hermon below is some of my early experience:


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> Subject: Re: [OHCLER] history question?
> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 02:21:32 -0400
> From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
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> When I was little,I rode with Dad to Cincinnati's Farmer's Market to sell
> apples.
> It was then located on A PARKING LOT that once was the old "Hospital" lot
> just east of still exsisting
> Cincinnati Music Hall. That part of Cincinnat north of the canal is still
> called "Over the Rhine" from all the German immigrants living there.
> Certainly in the Rev War,support of soldiers wives was a [Clermont]county
> problem.
> My great grandfather,John F.M.Ely was a New Richmond merchant 1862-72.
> Hitch,Ely and Ely. Capt Will Fagaly was onle officer who spoke German.
> And the poor.Likely New Richmond,and the nearby Ohio River hillsides
> had hundred's of German's in 1860.
> Some NEW RICHMOND German' Christened their babies on the Campbell
> Co,Ky side 8 miles downriver.
>
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Farmer's Market

I remember going with my dad in the truck to "farmer's market" in Cincinnati. At first, I was very young, probably before I started school. The early season location was on Pearl Street, between Second and Third St. Later in the season when there were many more farmers and the location was what was referred to as Twelth Street Market. The lot was large and a row of trucks went all the way around, then across the middle straight rows in parallel until it, many times, seemed full. As a small child I went along for the ride as I always wanted to go with Dad when ever he went anywhere. These were wholesale markets and most produce had to be by the bushel or a minimum quanty of large melons, such as watermelons.

The sounds of the street I will never forget, the old trucks were sounds you don't hear today. Those old trucks were very old even back then (prewar) years. Some probably were from before the twenties. Trucks with chain drive rear wheels on solid rubber tires, open cabs. The structure of the truck was wood frames, open and side curtains to be rolled down. The names of the business were painted on. The Model TT Ford trucks had a horn that sounded like a calf bawling, I liked that.

Twelth Street was across from the "Cat and Fiddle" night club, and the
songs went on all night. Nearby was the original Lindner's Ice Cream store, 3 dips for a dime. Sometimes Dad let me go there to get a cone.
Now days I hate to think of such a thing as letting a small child go by himself across the street near or after dark, past the night club.

Leon Bolender
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