| | |
|
|
|
|
Maple Avenue Looking West. From a postcard sent to Lockport NY on 21 April 1913. Published by C.A. Spear of Oakfield. The gingerbread Victorian at right is 16 Maple Avenue. When you turn onto Maple Avenue from Main, it is just past the old Firehouse on the right side.
Viewed: 267 times.
|
| Looking south at the intersection of South Main with South Pearl St. From a postcard sent to Buffalo NY on July 20 1911. Published by C.A. Spear of Oakfield. Note the unpaved streets, and the two types of utility lines.
Viewed: 246 times.
|
| Main Street looking South, from a postcard circa 1950. Published by Art-Glo Post Card Co., Manorville PA.
Viewed: 252 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
The US Gypsum Emery Mill Plant, from a postcard mailed May 16 1911 to Buffalo. Published by Farley Porter, Jr. of Elba, made in Germany. I believe the Emery Mill was on the South Pearl St. railroad tracks. The US Gypsum Judge Road facility was built in 1912.
Viewed: 283 times.
|
| The Oakfield House, located on the Pearl St. railroad tracks. From an unused postcard published by E.R. Scott sometime prior to 1907.
Viewed: 256 times.
|
| The Wilson Hotel. From an unused postcard. Published sometime in the 1920's.
Viewed: 271 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
Cary Seminary as seen through Triangle Park. From an unused postcard. The classroom building and girls' lodging is on the left and principal's family and boys' lodging is on the right (St. Michael's Hall). The water fountain in the foreground is dated from the 1920s, and the large stone in the middle of the Park may be a World War I memorial. The classroom building was torn down in 1926 and the Pearl St. School built in its place. St. Michael's hall was recently torn down.
Viewed: 252 times.
|
| St. Michael's Hall, from a postcard mailed September 24 1937 to Attica. The Hall was used as lodging for the principal's family and boys attending the Cary Seminary.
Viewed: 242 times.
|
| The Warren Memorial Home, at the intersection of Drake St. with Frazier Road. From an unused postcard from the 1920's. Also known as the Warren Sunshine Home, it was used as a summer rest home for women. It later became the home of Dr. Warn, and is now a private residence.
Viewed: 256 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
The Oakfield Fire Hall, from an unused postcard circa 1950. Published by Art-Glo Post Card Co., Manorville PA. Note the two large bells flanking the driveway.
Viewed: 239 times.
|
| West Side of North Main St. From a postcard sent to Buffalo NY on July 18 1912. Published by C.A. Spear of Oakfield. The light yellow Victorian in the center of the picture is 79 N. Main St., where the Chases lived when I was a kid. It is across the street from the Presbyterian church.
Viewed: 257 times.
|
| Main Street looking North, from a postcard sent to Gypsum OH on 23 March 1912. At the time, the first floor of the Odd Fellows building at the right housed Searls grocery store and a barber shop.
Viewed: 246 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
Oakfield of the Future, from a postcard circa 1910.
Viewed: 313 times.
|
| The Kind We Raise in Oakfield NY. From a postcard sent to Cleveland OH on 19 July 1911.
Viewed: 255 times.
|
| Fishing exaggeration, from an unused postcard circa 1911. Published by C.A. Spear of Oakfield and printed by Frank W. Swallow Post Card Company of Exeter, NH.
Viewed: 224 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
A 1959 Calendar distributed gratis by the Oakfield Farms Dairy. Note the "fish on Fridays" symbol. My Mom would often serve us Mrs. Paul's fish sticks and tater tots for Friday dinner, with lots of Heinz ketchup. We were Heinz, not Hunts people. For you youngsters scratching your heads, if you were Catholic in the fifties, you could not eat meat on Fridays.
Viewed: 236 times.
|
| A Niagara Gypsum sign from the 19-teens. Niagara Gypsum was acquired by the US Gypsum Company in the 1920s.
Viewed: 245 times.
|
| This is the fellow Drake St. is named for. His farm was east of the village on the right side of the road. From the Everts Atlas of 1876.
Viewed: 256 times.
|
|
| | |
| | |
|
|
|
|
The NW corner of Main and Maple, from the Everts Atlas of 1876. When I was a kid in the 1950s, the Woodruff-Rathbone building had become an IGA grocery store managed by Mr. Thompson, and the Hackley store was a meat market. The building burned to the ground in the 1980s, and there is a vacant lot there now.
Viewed: 253 times.
|
| Page 13 from the Cary Seminary catalogue for the 1878-1879 academic year. The Seminary, which stood at the corner of Pearl St. and Drake, operated from 1843-1905. The classroom building was torn down before the Pearl St. School opened in 1926. The Pearl St. school building is now used for senior and handicap housing.
Viewed: 256 times.
|
| A postally cancelled envelope from 7 June 1958, with the local boy scout lodge's insignia. Note the stamp commemorating the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
Viewed: 254 times.
|
|
| | |
Log in
Register
Support This Site
Contact Us
Help
Album: 