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From: john kirwan <>
Subject: Re: [OHMAHONI-L] Nostalgia time again.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 17:50:35 -0500


Ed:

Bakeries? I lived within a block of Bixler's Bakery, West Ave. at Marshall
St. Could smell the bread baking there day and night.

Wonder Bakery? Later I used to go on my SCOOTER --I mean one foot on the
floorboard and the other pushiking on the sidewalk down to Wonder Bakery
for "day-old bread and cup-cakes"--the bakery being on Mahoning towards
town frm Steel St. --and I lived up Mahoning about two miles. Can't
believe it today.

We had Ward's bakery out our way also. The big Isaily at Mahoning and
Glenwood.

Anent "the movies" --while the State was always my favorite, I didn't hear
anyone mentioning the Dome, or the Hippodrome, or the Strand, or Keith's,
---God forbid "The Princess" --but The Mahoning deserves mention. I
remember when the "new Warner's" opened, and as I recall the Paramount was
the first to be "Air Cooled".

I saw Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer' at the Dome and (either the Dome or
the Hippodrome) "The Big Parade' --a WW I movie. I loved the vaudville at
Keith's. Don't see that much no more.

And my father ran a "three table" pool room on Steel St. --just about 4
doors off Mahoning. Pool out front ---poker in the back room. Cigars and
Kay-woodie pipes sold. No women allowed.

john kirwan

At 09:22 PM 8/17/98 , wrote:
>Since this list is getting awfully quiet, I decided to post a little
>nostalgia message. Hope this provokes some response. (Besides telling me
>where to shove my nostalgia).
>
>While looking at the East Side, actually Hazelton, on the 1920 Mahoning
>county census, I was struck by the familiarity of a name. Morris Schwebel
>lived at 20 Hazeltine Avenue. He was a Baker in a Bake Shop. Now, does
>anybody remember Schwebel bread? Does it still exist? This must have been
>the founder of the bakery or the father of the founder. Anybody know the
>story?
>
>Another memory was of Renner Beer. I went to school with a Renner of the
>family that produced that beer. I know it no longer exists. Did anybody
>save any bottles? Wasn't there a dairy that fought the blue laws in
>Youngstown and Warren? I think it was something like LaBatt, help me
>somebody!
>
>Of course, one of the most famous start-ups in Youngstown was Arby's.
>Originally the Raffel Brothers starting from one store, they put together
>their headquarters on the end of Colonial Drive in Trumbull Co. just off
>Belmont Avenue. After going bankrupt, they recovered although I think the
>original brothers were bought off. RB's, get it?
>
>Don't forget to look at the Youngstown page that Cathie Timlin-Hebb has put
>together for memories.
>The URL is: http://members.aol.com/WVOH/index.htm
>
>Ed Hagan.
>

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