1084 South Broad Street, The Burg.
Once upon a time this was John F Engler Real Estate
in the 50s, then Lil's Cancellation Shoes in
the 60s according to my records:)
It was a Tattoo place in my Burg day:)
6 years ago
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Mr Engler, his wife and her sister Mrs. Miller live here when I was little. Miserable people, left out poisoned food, to kill animals that got into their yard. If you see the big yard to the left of the building...that's where my mom used to throw my shoes if I left them at the front door and didn't take them into my room. She threw them down from our 2nd floor apartment next door. Had to go down there many mornings in the cold to get them. Funny...she never threw my father's shoes down.
Your mom wasn't trying to tell you, something, was she? Wow. You should see the pile of shoes at our back door! It's mud season out here ;-)
You had a luncheonette next door wasn't there? And the medical center was across Division St., where we had to get TB X-rays if you didn't pass the patch test.
SJBill..Helen's Lunchonette was on the corner. Mack has a photo, as the MAB paint store. Opposite corner was the Chambersburg Professional Building, after being Chambersburg Hospital for many years.It's now Dr Kotsopey's Dental Practice. I had to take 2 TINE tests there, after Mike Stein at St Anthony's contracted TB. Had a false positive on the test from school. I broke my ankle in this building after sneaking in after they waxed the floors. Slid from one end to the other, couldn't stop...sailed down the hall, over the door saddle and rolled down the steps, heard it go "crack". Jack Valsak, the buildings maintenance man who lived in the apt in the basement carried me home, to catch hell for having to go to the hospital to have my leg set. Times are different now, it would be a law suit, even tho I shouldn't have been in there. My mom never TRIED to tell me anything...she told me once and if I didn't listen, I chased my shoes.
Best way to find it is to
go to the top of this site
where it says SEARCH and type in
the words PAINT and BROAD
Mack..I was talking to a friend the other day, and the Hurdy Gurdy men popped into my head. He thought I was nuts!! They were 2 blind brothers, that used to pull a large black Hurdy Gurdy, with the help of a sighed friend down Broad St, stopping in front of the bar next door. My husband remembers them on Lalor St also, stopping at the bars and playing for donations. Anybody remember them?
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