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onewhoknows · Joined: 29 Oct 2007 Posts: 62

Shirks downtown.
Pleasant View Dairy had the BEST eggnog anywhere! I have "tested" others and they don't even come close.
There was a store beside the old sears on Second street. It was where the parking lot is now. Anyone remember the name of the place?
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Maggie · Joined: 28 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

skillth · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

Eberly's drive-in on wayne rd (RR5)
Cherry Lane Dairy
The Tropical Treat on 11 S.
The Little Shop
Flotsam & Jetsam
Dick's Melody Lane
Martin's grocery on E linc Way
Barton's Cookie Jar
Glick Shoes
McCrory's
Woolworth's
Hatmaker's Bar (w/ go-go Dancers)
The Rainbow Restaurant.
Carl's Market on 11 S.
The National Hotel
Woolworth's
Lightfoot's (Main & Wash. st, now located on Broad St.)
Wenger's Bakery on Broad (where lightfoot's barber shop is now)
Stewart Kyle's Salon on Washington St.
The State store (only game in town) on Lincoln way across from the Hitching Post Inn (Washington house)
Nora's Ice Cream on Franklin st
Duffield house of music
The Orange Car
Tasty Freeze on Lincoln (near current popeye's)
and on and on and on...........

Montgomery Ward
Johnnie Laundry
Coder's Laundry
The Chambersburg Laundry
Rocket ( w/ rocket shaped sign) Cleaners
The Brandon Restaurant
The Corner confectionary (later the corner store sec. & Catherine)
Western auto on the square
The "Clique" on Cedar St.
Jaques Cafe On Water St.
Rideout's Barber Shop
Walter the Paperboy-Man (RIP)
Ghosty (and his mom) (RIP)

WAIT!! I'm getting off the track heh

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1798 Location: shippensburg

koozie · Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Posts: 122

I forgot about him too.....always ready for a rainy day.

me · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 119

The Implement Co, oh gawd I loved that place.

I can remember them saying "If we don't have it, you don't need it"

That place had everything, it was just so neat and old fashioned !!!!
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Ret-Fed · Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 6

How about the old feed mill behind the old H.L. Mills gas station (Greek's ice cream place today) on Hood Street between LWW and King. What year did it burn down '60 - '65 ? ? ? ?

SUAOJ06 · Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

I forgot to remember...George & Nick's Chicken, Triangle.

spike · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: chambersburg

VT Angle Sons Cadillac-Buick-Olds dealership where Taco Bell sits. Breon's Esso at the point where The Medicine Shop is. Johnson's Treat on Rt 11 S. The Esso station at the Fayetteville Flea Market. The Caledonia Drive-In. Fesca (sp) gas station on the Burger King site at Hess's. Rip Rossman's signs at Ponderosa. There was a Shell Station at Starbucks. My Aunt and Uncle sold Martin's their property for an eat-in bakery where Sunrise Electronics is. And who in the east end of town can forget Bud Faubel's famous "Honker" Super Stock Dodge(s) sitting in his driveway on Coldbrook Ave on Monday mornings after a weekend of drag racing, i understand he still lives in the same place.

ANON22 · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 81

I don't know of any of the places you all are talking about!!! Very Happy

spike · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: chambersburg

When we were younger and traveling RT30 east from Chambersburg to Fayetteville, the speed limit was 55 MPH and you could pass the whole way. About the only thing out that way at the time was WT Grants store. Nichol's Discount City was still a field. We used to say that someday - but NOT in our lifetime, that there would probably be red lights from C-Burg to F-Ville. We never even considered a traffic signal at RT30 and Black Gap Road or Caledonia State Park.

spike · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 6 Location: chambersburg

Does anyone remember the late John Dice's gold metalflake Corvette with the aquarium built into the grille cavity. I seen it at a show in the 60's? at the Nat'l Guard Armory on Radio Hill. He had real goldfish swimming around in it! It later was lost in a fire.

skillth · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

Capitol bakers
East point tavern
Dittman's grocery on Queen
Chambersburg produce on second
Eduardo's (formerly Bell's) on s main
Yohe's confectionary on king st. (5 cent 20oz. Double Colas)
The Large scale super fast model car track where solly's used to be beside the capitol theatre
Lutz Barber shop on main
The Pipe shop beside palmers on the square
Latzbbaugh's Meat Market on second acroos the N. point from Trinity Lutheran church
Henri on s main St.
Kendall, Funk & Bismarck manufacturing jewelers
The Apache Tear Hippie Head shop on King across from Mccleary oil
Barnhart's Art Supply on Main
Ciccerelli's Copier service on main & king
Shippen cleaners on main & Washington
The Original Molly Pitcher Waffle Shop
Frey's Farm Dairy
Dairy Queen ( "with the curl on top" ) S main.
The Inn across from Penn Hall
The Silver Dollar Confectionary at Grandpoint
Mickey's Inn (not the village.. The Inn)
The Graffenburg Inn (sp?) at caledonia park
The Fayetteville drive-in
The Kustard Kitchen
The char pit #?? restaurant at Linc Way Shopping Center

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1798 Location: shippensburg

all this waxing nostaglic is making me miss a lot of the 'old time' chambersburg things....

i'm hungry for red barn, george and nicks and martins and can't do anything about it! lol!

lynnosler · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Chambersburg, PA

WOW! This thread brings back MEMORIES! When I was a kid, my grandmother didn't drive... she lived over by the hospital, and I remember walking from there to the square to Newberry's. And just to downtown when it HAD life!

I also remember the FARM LAND! Now they call that "Progress"! Yeah whatever, I liked the farms and the fields that went on for miles without a sign of a house!

I also remember the CIRCUIT! I was a child of the 80s, and the life this town had after hours! Laughing