SUNY at Oswego - Ontarian Yearbook (Oswego, NY)

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againg ' l'1Opc. irough ie His- mpton e back n Vk'l'1Cn vm the s then ind we me. lt 7, Whg St two ' ev. over at iw, and st night the bar hadn't ld have on your is red, I s down afeteria ou were vu went f chang- l passed Herby's. lt's closed now. The white paint has crackled and warped, the windows are dusty and broken, the air is one of forlorn lone- liness. Not so ten years ago, was it? The place was always jumping, we'd sit there half the evening over coffee and hamburgers, watching kids come and leave, throwing wisecracks back and forth across the boothtops, and occasionally making a trip to the back room where a large new section I l l l l make a scene of myself on that two by four dance Hoor, waddling like a duck. I don't know, Di, whether our as- sociationsn benefitted me or not . . . you kept me moving all the time, window shopping in the five and ten, or nursing hot chocolate in Whelan's Drug, hauling your week's food sup- ply from the A 81 P out to the hill or bowling down at the Capitol Alleys . . . remember the day that brat ran 11 of tables and chairs were built to ac- commodate the increased patronage. l don't know how Herby kept him- self in cigars on the nickels and dimes he made from us . . . The dinner brought back recol- lections of those swell spaghetti sup- pers at Conzone's and Diment's. lVla's meat balls always tasted like more. Those evenings were fine too, until yould make me get out and

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