November 12, 2003
Cazenovia: 1947
Bob Pangborn, a frequent contributor to the Cazenovia Discussion Forum, has provided that group with many photos and descriptions of life in Cazenovia in the mid-1940's. He took the photos himself with a Kodak Bantam camera. Be sure to click the photos to see the larger versions.
Part 1
April 17, 02
Jim
I don't know if you can put these photos on your message site or not but I thought Pat Costello would find them interesting.
They were photos, at Lakeland, of what I would call the old boathouse but how the Bandstand.
One photo shows kids jumping off the porch rail into the Lagoon. The water was dirty with old leaves and willow branches. If there was a lifeguard around, they would be over on the pier. The more daring kids would get on the roof to jump, using the willow tree right next to the porch.
The second photo shows what the building looked like to us growing up in Caz years ago. Tom Callahan's boat rental area was in the lower left downstairs area (see the arrow). You could smell Tom's cigar before you got to the door.
Photos were taken probably summer of 1946, by me, using a little "Kodak Bantam".
I have had good luck making photo copies at our CVS pharmacy Kodak 5 minute picture maker. It does a great job.
Best wishes,
Bob Pangborn
Endicott NY
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Part 2
June 23, 2002I thought I'd send up a few more photos of local interest. Once again, I had my photos copied on a 5 min. photo machine in a CVS pharmacy. All photos were taken around 1947.
A youngster jumping off a tree at Lakeland. Near the Bandstand. Can you swim there now?
Lakeland again. Looks like he will make a big splash.
Looking up towards the college. Note the steeple on the Methodist Church. I'm not sure what year it was removed.
How many remember The Cazenovia House? It used to be where Smith's store is/was located. Several Caz people made their homes there. Not too bad a location for sitting on the porch and dropping in the bar for a cool one. (The bar in the Cazenovia House. Albert's was started up sometime during the demolition of The Cazenovia House). The car looks like mine before I painted it bright red with yellow trim.
I took this photo after taking off from a grass strip located up Albany St./Route 20. The field may have been across from Bruce's apple orchard. You probably wouldn't realize there was a landing strip there because the field wasn't flat. That didn't bother the pilots, some of whom were known as the Flying Farmers, Dean Coe for example. My pilot was Bob Ward, a classmate, who went on to fly for Eastern Airlines.
I hope these photos might get some response from the message board viewers.
There are more tales to go with these photos.
The boy in the first photo is probably Merwin Marshall. Maybe someone could print the photo and bring it to Marshalls and ask Mer if he remembers those jumps.
The fellow diving into the lake was Charlie Stanton from Syracuse. He stayed at Caz during the summer. Charlie was one of the first hearing and speech impaired people we ever knew. We had a lot of laughs with him in spite of his handicaps. His father owned Stanton Foundries in Syracuse, if i'm not mistaken.
In the aerial photo, you can see Buyeas quonset building/store at the lower right. Can you see where the RR tracks were? To the left of Buyeas, across Albany St., there is a small square building near the tracks. That was a frozen food locker where people used to rent space for storing their meat and Vegs etc. That was before home freezers were popular. Actually, a lot of of us only had ice boxes until after WW2. Anybody remember Mr. Gardner or Howard Stafford, our ice men? The last buildings on the lower left include Luke Gages bowling alley and Stanley Bittners feed mill. (Atwells Mill?)
Does any of this bring up any questions? If so, let me know and i'll reply.
Sincerely,
Bob Pangborn