Wanted
Hello, first and foremost I want to thank everyone who has already contributed photographs to Ellwood City Memories. I am not looking to keep your pictures, but rather would prefer a copy or scanned digital version of your pictures. We are always looking for more pictures of Ellwood City and will always gladly take any pictures you may offer, however there are some specific pictures we are looking for that you may have in your attic. Currently we are looking for…
- Any Ellwood City Sports Team picture including the Koppel Mud Divers & the West End Canaries (mush ball)
- Parade pictures - background is what we are looking for
- Drive up on Ellwood-Zelienople Road called Easy’s Twin Kiss
- Nick’s Snack Bar
- Red Hot’s at the end of 5th St bridge (was Ionelies, was Ted’s Hamburgers, was Mayflower Lunch)
- Either of the old Fire Stations
- *** Information on the Kingsmen Car Club. ***
- Wilson’s Bar (had the boxing ring in the basement)
- “Old Brick School House” on Glen Ave
- Nye School
- Frisco Bridge
You can email us at info@ellwoodcitymemories.com
If you do not have the means to email us your picture, please contact us and we can bring a small scanner to you and the picture never has to leave your sight. We are always looking for pictures to add to our website and are very gracious for the ones we have already received.
Hi I have a few pictures that you might be interested in. Just click on the links below or copy and paste.
Farm League Baseball…Beatrices
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Lincoln High School Cross Country
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Ellwood City Packers
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I remember the circus coming to town. For a number of years it would be on the farm of Ben Parker on Wampum road. A lot of us kids would go and help the circus set up the big tent and the other tents and we would get a pass to see the show.It was a lot of hard work but we enjoyed doing it and being around the circus people seeing the animals it was like being back stage. I remember one year the truck that hauled the cook tent it left to go to the next town to setup for the next day. The truck went thru Ellwood and down Frisco hill across the bridge
and wrecked in to a house I don`t remember if there was anyone hurt there were rumors that alcohol was involved but I do not know
I so remember the Boltbuster’s football team as my brother, Harry Hughes, played. He was #53 and in the picture you can see him in the front row. My mom went to his games, but she could never pick him out of the crowd of players. So, he told her he would wear one of his jersey sleeves rolled up to his elbow and leave the other at his wrist, that way she could know it was him. It worked!
back in the 30s, a local drum & bugle corp band performed in parades etc. in full dress. I believe it was called the “firemans band”. they practiced in the p&le parking lot. was an impressive sight, can’t recall when it disappeared. comments please.
I am only 22 years old but i grew up in Park Gate and know i have family with pictures of the old train Tracks as well as the old Park Gate School& church please let me know where to remit anything to.
the picture http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7269/scan0003fd.jpg is not a Cross Country picture, but it is a Track and Field Photo
Twin Kiss: Easy (Isman) Mariotti was my grandfather, I believe I have some good photos from the 60′s and 70′s. I’ll find them and get them to you. I should also have some sports photos of the Frisco Little Teams from the early 70′s. The Frisco kids won the Little, Pony and Colt title five years running.
This is a great web-site, you’ve done a wonderful job with it.
Paul MacMurdo – The Fombell Area Historical Society would love to have copies of pics of Easy’s as well. Please let me know if you are able to get any photos. Thanks!
What is the difference between ‘old phone books’ & ‘old city directories’ ? I may have a couple.
Tracie I don’t know the difference, but if the #’s start with PL or 1 letter and 4 didgets they would be interesting to see. The latter would be from the 50′s or earlier. Ellwood used Plaza/PL, Beaver Falls used Tilton/TI and New Castle used Oliver/OL. Good find or a good keep Tracie. Please tell Skip I said Hi.
Hi Ernie, I will tell Skip you said hello! Sorry I didnt get back to you sooner, but our dad, Lloyd E. Haswell Sr. passed away on April 28th, two months shy of turning 92.
So, the books I have are old, they belonged to my aunt & uncle, Ernie & Verna Hartman. They include where people worked. I will have to look, but I am pretty sure the numbers started with PL …I also have some things from when Ernie was police chief & the shootout he had with the bank robbers.
Traci and Ernie, The old Ellwood numbers starting with a Pl, the Pl stood for Plaza. My old number growing up was Plazas 3123. Don
Wow, I’m not the only that remembers my old phone number from EC, it was Pl8-8482. I also remember Beaver Falls Tilden, as I had relatives that lived there. My Dad’s barber shop had the same phone number, so when somone called for him, I would get the broom and pound on the floor (we lived above the barber shop) and he would pick up the phone in the shop. Fun memories I have an EC phone book from the 60′s.
I am feeling very old. I not only remember our old Plaza 8 phone number, but also our number before that, #113R. The older number was before we had a dial on the phone and an operator asked for the number you were calling.
Remembering back to the time of a telephone operator, My cousin, Gary Keisling was in Kindergarten and for some reason he was sent home early he must have had a key because he found himself home alone and picked up a phone and asked the Op. for his lemonade Grandma. This must have been 1952. The operator seeing the last name found my grandparents phone and soon someone was with him. Would this happen today??????
Carole, Okay that goes back farther. If my memory serves me correctly, ours was 1032-R. Could have one too many numbers in there. That was a party line; there were also private numbers. I also remember to call Beaver Falls it cost 10cents either a minute or unlimited time. Remember there used to be station-to-station and Person-to-Person?
Now everyone is texting. NOT ME
I am impressed by all of you who remember your old EC phone number. I remember “Plaza” but not our number.
When my parents got married in 1937 my mother was a telephone operator and my dad worked for Western Electric, Bell’s equipment manufacturer, since 1935. My dad was Ma Bell’s only “installer” in Ellwood City during World War II.
My dad did something in the new Ellwood City office that earned him a $25 dollar award for helping bring about automatic dialing for long distance.
I remember “Person-to-Person” long distance. Also calling “collect” so your parents would pay on the other end when you were calling home from college.
I remember we had a party line in the 1950′s; if you were on the phone and heard someone “pick up” on another phone just say “working” and they should hang up. Nice protocol. My sister would just tell me to “hang up.”
As to the question as to the name of the newstand at the end of the 5th street bridge. I have a 1951 phone book that lists it as Mallary Newstand. This is a fantastic site and I have passed it on to many of my friends. Keep up the good work…
For the baby boomers: There were 3 and 4 digit numbers, private lines and some with an R as in Ring. Ring once, twice or three times for a 3 party line (cheaper). So, a person could get Ring-Ring-Ring for their call if they were 123-R3. After Pl-8 and Pl-2 the dial was added and area code was added, as in (long distance) 1-412-758-5396. Capiche?
I always thought Plaza (PL) was used at first because seven numbers were getting too long to remember. We had no idea!
We had a phone with the speaker on a stand about a foot tall and a wire to the earpiece. There was a Y shaped lever on the side to hang the earpiece. You would answer the phone by “picking up” the earpiece or disconnect by “hanging up”.
Mickey, good to see you.
I will testify, Mickey did not live in an igloo!
boy, have we ever come a long long way,i swear i don’t feel that old//i just found the site and i love it///
Welcome aboard Cathi..!!
Hi All
Wampum was Kellog. Anyone remember that. Linda, You hit the floor once for your Dad, twice if it was for Joe Delisio and three times if it was for Joe Ionta! I remember the codes well! Our before dial number at my grandfathers was 68 and at his funeral home 98.
Bob,
I love your memory story of the stomping signals. Just another look back at a simpler time, as we all travel the memory lane here on “Ellwood Memories”.
Ernie,
Skip wants to know if you’re on Facebook?!
Bob, You are tooooooo much. How in the heck do you remember the number of times we would hit the floor with a broom for each barber. You are so correct!!!! I didn’t remember that until now. It gave me a WONDERFUL laugh and great memories. I know I will keep laughing about this all day. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Joe Delisio and Joe Ionta were such nice men.
Ben, Thank you again for this wonderful web site. I enjoy it so much.
Tracie, Yes I am.
Hi, I saw that Leonard Chapman had posted that he used to go to the circus on Ben Parker’s farm. I think I have a picture of Ben and his wife Maude (Wood) Parker. I was wondering if any one remembers what they look like.Also the Clark farm that was mentioned. Does any one know who they were. I am researching Ashton,Pinkerton,Clark and Wood families. Thank you,Nora
Nora….I remember Ben and Maude Parker I lived across the road(the house isn’t there anymore) from them. I lived there until I was 5 years old. I don’t remember what they looked like tho. I also remember the circus being there.
RE: The truck went thru Ellwood and down Frisco hill across the bridge
and wrecked in to a house.
I remember that wreck. Vaguely remember it was a circus truck. My family lived on the edge of the country club at the time. If you were standing in the country club parking lot today, and looked at the fairway to the right of the club house, we lived on the first house along the golf course. Even today it is not that built up out there, so a truck wreck at the bridge was a big deal at the time.
I think it was 1951 at the earliest.
Dave I remeber that truck I was there with my Dad that stuck in my mind for a long time auctiondj@yahoo.com
Sharon,thank you for your reply.Maude was the sister of my son’s g-grandfather.I was given a box of pictures and I have been trying to find out who people are. I did have some luck on Ancestry.com and sent a lady pictures of her mother. She was so happy because her mother(Maude’s sister) had died a few years after she was born and she didn’t have any pictures of her mother.
the truck lost its brakes, went through the front of the house and as I was told, the cab ended up in the baasement.
Yes, a big deal. As you can imagine, a run-away truck going straight ahead when the road turned to the right. It went across the porch, through the wall into the house and then into the basement or at least through the floor. I saw it a day or two later after the truck was removed. There were rumors that an elephant was in the truck but I think it was a kitchen truck for the performers.
My husband said he wasn’t sure on the year but he had just been at Art Miller’s gas station and had walked down River Rd when he heard a loud crash, had been a few minutes later walking across the road he could have been run over by the truck. He also said the driver was killed.
Sharon, yes he was killed. Tell Fred I said hey! Don
Don, Fred says hey back and for you to have a nice day.
I just want to report 2 things. Last weekend my wife Linda and me were lucky to have been given tickets to a Pirate Game and it was a Fireworks Night. Zambelli’s did the shoot and it was grand. It was 20 minutes of nonstop beauty and a great finale. Fireworks was a subject a couple months back and I wrote about how good they were at the games. They were and still are very good.
Secondly for all you transplants a local tavern that was a good place to enjoy a drink and good lamb in Ellwood back in the day has been torn down. The New Deal is no more.
Sorry there is a third thing. It’s really nice to see the names of people who donate to help Ben keep this site up and running for us all. I noticed recent donors are Linda Turner and Ralph Newton. I’m sure there are others too. Know that this reader thanks you very much for your donations.
Just found this site, and it is terrific. When I master my new iPad, I,ll have more to say! Hi to all the 1964 grads!
Glad you found this site, Diane. Drop me a line sometime: jjoxsen@frontiernet.net Would love hearing from my old school friend.
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET A COPY OR EVEN A MICRO-FILM OF ELLWOOD CITY LEDGER jANUARY 3 1928. mY DAD WROTE A ARTICLE ON PAGE 2 i AM VERY INTERESTED IN.
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED
KATIE
I remember our old phone number. Plaza 8-5149
Hey, Cousin Marilyn,
Email me, rwoods@bayou.com
Bob
Hi Cousin – I did email you, in case you’ve not checked your emails today!
Hey Can anybody help me find year books for 1963 and 1964 from Lincoln I have a 1963 from Riverside Hey let me know have been several years since I lost my year books thanks
Danny,
Yearbooks fore Lincoln High can be purchased at http://www.classmates.com. Not cheap thou.
Would the EC Historical Society have Riverside yearbooks?
This may have been mentioned before, but the Ellwood Library has yearbooks to view. I have never seen any of them myself, just what I have been told.