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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1777 Location: shippensburg

also....remember the mexican hideaway restaurant (across from where taco bell is now)....i LOVED that place. SO MUCH....sooooo....goooooooood.....

Bratwurst · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 29

OLD Stoner's with the walk-up stand, picnic tables and swings.
Okies (SP?) Restaurant (Indonesian I think?!)

Not sure if this was answered:
The dairybar on Scotland Avenue was Dairimaid. It was bought out by Harrisburg Dairy and eventually closed.
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2251 Location: Chambersburg

An Indonesian restaurnant? That sounds like Chambersburg ca. 2027

ILOVEMYCAT · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 11

Okies was a great downtown restaurant operated by a resident originally from Indonesia. I think she did most of the cooking and the food was fantastic. We would sometimes sneak off to eat lunch there, but everyone in the office knew where we had been when we returned because our clothes smelled of satay and garlic and food cooked with sesame oil. Thanks for the memories! I had forgotten about this place.

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

Bratwurst · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 29

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2723 Location: Chambersburg

fordman · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:57 am Post subject:

No one mentioned the old Gale-Diehl sporting goods just west of the square?..and I believe there was another at the current 30 west family rest.site..correct? ...an old shoe store south of Newberry's with the "bargain basement",Masons was it?...Franks Pizza on Derbyshire street? best pizza and hoagies around!!!...The washington house on 2nd street..The coke building,Byers farm equipment south of Johnnie's rest. and supply...I think part of the sign is still standing!!..When the olde red barn was still a "barn",I stacked hay in there a "few" years ago!!!..also a barn stood in front of the Nitterhouse plant on 11.

koozie · Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Posts: 122

The shoe store with the bargain basement was Endicott Johnsons and another gem was the Lincoln Meat Market right down the way from Gale Diehls. Oh and this is a long time ago, but does anyone remember the little candy store that sat on the corner of LWW and Federal Street that was run by Mr Nestles and his wife. We use to go in there practically everyday after school to buy penny candy. Yes, I said penny candy. And I have to agree with you on Franks Pizza, Fordman, They had the best, 30 cents a slice pizza around. Probably the only 30 cents a slice pizza around.

skillth · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

Newton's Pharmacy
Henry's Restaurant on King
Elser's Market on E. King across from P.O.
East End Shoe Repair on Washington Street
Grove's bicycle shop
The Hotel Reeder, (burned down)
The Hotel LaMar
Lincoln Diner
Rosedale Theatre,
Maria's Hoagie Shop,
Kissinger's Grocey,
Haines The Shoe Wizard,
Kolb's Tavern,
The News Agency on Linc. across from old Courthouse Annex,
Solly's Billiards beside the Capitol
The Quick Lunch
House of Gabler
Eyster's
Lawyer's Confectionary
Uppie's Barber Shop
Corner Bar and Grill
Bob Wise Clothiers
The Ford Garage on Main st.
Big D Discount on Second st.
Acme Market on Second near King (later Solly's newer location)
Diffy's Bicycle Shop on king
Sherk's downtown
Corner Pizza Shop across from Central High
Palmer's on the square
Gold Star Memorials on King st.

Ret-Fed · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 6

For Koozie and other West Enders:

How about Ol' Man Rearig's (sp?) Bicycle Shop across from the current McCleary Oil Company on West King. That old guy always wore a white shirt and tie while fixing bikes, and cursed like a sailor. Got my first Schwinn bicycle there !

Don't forget DairyMaid on Scotland Avenue...best ice cream !

koozie · Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Posts: 122

I remember the bike shop, never went there though. Got my first Schwinn at Joe the Motorist Friend. I remember taking a "test drive" inside the store on the old hardwood floors, up and down the aisles. Pink flowered banana seat with a pink frame and actual hand brakes. I thought I was the coolest girl on the block Smile

Maggie · Joined: 28 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

Skillth, that is some list, you've added a lot that I'd forgotten about! Was Sherks on the corner of Main and Queen and had the big pokcet knife on the exterior side wall?

The Big D was in the Sears parking lot (an early Dollar Store.) Going to ACME on 2nd Street and then down to A&P was a Saturday morning tradition, on the way home we'd hit Scotland Road Market for meat.

The Ice and Cold Storage on Siloam Road sold dry ice we used to make ice cream in the summer and we'd always go home by turning left and driving by the Siloam Dam where people actually drove INTO the water and washed their cars! They'd play their radios and it was a scene right out of the early 60's.

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1777 Location: shippensburg

house of gems too

i wish okies (sp?) was still around. *sigh*

Bratwurst · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 29

Sherks was on Main Street where the bead place is.

Some More (Hopefully no repeats!):
The Implement Company
The ice cream place on Wayne Road (Mack's??)
The dairy where Norland Pub is (Koontz?)
Charles Chips

Does ANYBODY remember a grocery store beside Nichols Dept Store?
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