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Subject: Re: [PAFAYETT-L] coke ovens
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:36:20 EST


I was born in Uniontown in 1942 and lived for a time just off Route 51, north
of the Coke-Cola bottling plant. The plant had a window in front where an
employee would inspect the clean bottles before they were filed with pop. My
dad Henry, his brother John & brother in law Joe Swaty had a roadside market
on Route 51 near the Coke-Cola plant. It was called Swaty's Market. After it
burned in 1955 we moved back to Cleveland.
I remember coke ovens that you could see at night in the area off Route 51 by
what is now a freeway.

Henry Stoken, Cleveland

Family names- Grandparents Emery Stoken & Frances Galinac Stoken in Uniontown
& Anton & Mary Spehar Papesh in Smock's eastend area, near St.Hedwig's
cemetery.

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