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...here on the first day of the new year
Saturday observation and podcast #403-Highlight Episode 5 "38 Minutes"
Thank you for exceeding our 2021 goal by donating $5,441 to keep Historians Podcast going. Our most recent generous donation came from Paul Trembley. The 2021 fund drive is still accepting donations at https://www.gofundme.com/historians-podcast-2021 A check made out to Bob Cudmore also may be sent to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. The 2022 Go Fund Me campaign will be announced soon.
Historians January 2022
Jim Kaplan-Evacuation Day when British troops left New York City in 1783 (01-07)-Jerry Snyder-Amsterdam’s arts (01-14)-Bob Cudmore-horses and carpets, Laddie Sanford (01-21)-New York State Historian Devin Lander (01-28)
Soccer, ice cream and men’s clothing among 2021’s topics
By Bob Cudmore
Soccer players from the British navy competed in a 1941 exhibition game against the Bigelow-Sanford United’s, a soccer club sponsored by the Amsterdam carpet manufacturer.
The Recorder reported, “With pipers piping and a total of three bands contributing to a musical background, the Bigelow-Sanford team squeezed out a 3-2 victory over picked players from the Royal British Navy Saturday night at Mohawk Mills Park in the greatest soccer show of all time in Amsterdam.”
Ed McKnight scored twice for the locals and Howie Dynes scored once. It was the first local soccer game under the lights. Rain made the field slippery.
Great Britain was at war with Germany when the benefit was played to raise funds for British relief.
The Bigelow-Sanford soccer team formed in 1893. Gavin “Guy” Murdoch, who fought in World War I with the Canadian army, was anonymous editor of United’s PX, a monthly newsletter published during World War II
Guy Murdoch was a quality supervisor at Mohawk Carpet. His grandson Gavin Murdoch, retired Amsterdam high school principal, provided information for this story.
Tollner’s ice cream occupied a white building on Route 5 in Fort Johnson near the railroad tracks, west of the main gate of St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Willis Tollner, Sr., started the popular shop with his father, Fred Tollner, in 1935.
Willis Tollner, Sr., died in 1955 at 47. Also that year Willis’s father Fred and his wife moved to Yonkers, New York, where one of their daughters lived.
Willis Senior’s sons Willis Junior (Bill) and Ron operated the ice cream shop in its later years according to Fort Johnson native Shirley Kosinski.
Bill Tollner, married Fran, who had worked as a carhop. They relocated to western New York and have four children. Ron Tollner died young, leaving his wife Peggy Van Patten Tollner and one son.
Monday, January 3, 2022- Today’s Story Behind the Story podcast is an audio version of Saturday’s column on top history columns of 2021. Long and short of it Monday Story "6 Minutes"
Tollner’s closed and the building was torn down along with many other structures when Route 5 in Fort Johnson and Tribes Hill was rebuilt in the 1960s as a four lane highway.
Paul Guttenberg, who headed Mortan’s men’s store in Amsterdam until it closed in 1990, passed away in August 2021. Paul was born in New York City in 1927, the son of H. Morton and Pearl Rauch Guttenberg.
Mortan’s was named after Paul's father, who moved his clothing store from Schenectady to Amsterdam in 1933. Despite launching in the Depression, Mortan’s prospered at several East Main Street locations. Mortan’s last store was in the downtown mall.
In his memoir “Too Long Ago” about growing up in Amsterdam, historian David Pietrusza wrote, “Imagine Paul Newman operating a clothing store in Amsterdam, and, you have an approximation of Paul Guttenberg, whose skill in making a sale was prodigious.”
Guttenberg was a U.S. Marine veteran and graduate of Union College. After Mortan’s closed he pursued other interests including skiing and flying airplanes.
The Guttenbergs made their home in Broadalbin. In 2007 Paul and his wife Susanne, a health administrator, assumed ownership of Montgomery Meadows, a 120-bed nursing home on Amsterdam’s South Side. The facility was renamed River Ridge Living Center.
Eleanore Cramer Breier, widow of late Amsterdam mayor and industrialist Marcus Breier, died last May in Miami, Florida at 101. A graduate of Ithaca College, Eleanore was a physical education teacher at the former Theodore Roosevelt Junior High in Amsterdam.
Veteran radio broadcaster and Mohawk Valley Daily Gazette reporter Sam Zurlo, 90, died October 25 at his Tribes Hill home. In July a column had chronicled Zurlo’s early working years when he was in the U.S. Army, a disc jockey and newsman at Armed Forces Radio Service in Frankfurt, Germany.
Tomorrow, Sunday, January 2, 2022-From the Archives- March 8, 2019-Episode 256-Robin Oliveira discusses her book “Winter Sisters,” set in Albany, N.Y., in 1879. Oliveira grew up in the Albany area and is also author of a novel about a Civil War physician, “My Name is Mary Sutter.” Sutter is a major character in “Winter Sisters.”
Amsterdam and Mohawk Valley Weather, Saturday, January 1, 2022
New Year's Day
A chance of showers before 9am, then a chance of rain after 9am. Areas of dense fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 46. Light east wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain likely, mainly after midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 36. Northeast wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday
Rain likely before 1pm, then rain and snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 38. Northeast wind 5 to 9 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
January 1, 1808
The United States bans the importation of slaves.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines for Saturday, January 1, 2022
Daily Gazette
Area counties hit new highs on COVID; state doubles down on masks, tests, shots
ALBANY — While state government will kick up the current countermeasures, it currently has no plans for a lockdown as…
EDITORIAL: Thank you, readers, for sharing Your Voice
After the tumultuous presidential election year of 2020 and the outbreak of the first worldwide pandemic in 100 years, it…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
ConnectGen proposing second large-scale solar project in Glen
Looking back at local sports in 2021
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Area counties hit new highs on COVID; state doubles down on masks, tests, shots
by John Cropley
https://www.leaderherald.com/
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By Bob Cudmore...here on the first day of the new year
Saturday observation and podcast #403-Highlight Episode 5 "38 Minutes"
Thank you for exceeding our 2021 goal by donating $5,441 to keep Historians Podcast going. Our most recent generous donation came from Paul Trembley. The 2021 fund drive is still accepting donations at https://www.gofundme.com/historians-podcast-2021 A check made out to Bob Cudmore also may be sent to 125 Horstman Drive, Scotia, NY 12302. The 2022 Go Fund Me campaign will be announced soon.
Historians January 2022
Jim Kaplan-Evacuation Day when British troops left New York City in 1783 (01-07)-Jerry Snyder-Amsterdam’s arts (01-14)-Bob Cudmore-horses and carpets, Laddie Sanford (01-21)-New York State Historian Devin Lander (01-28)
Soccer, ice cream and men’s clothing among 2021’s topics
By Bob Cudmore
Soccer players from the British navy competed in a 1941 exhibition game against the Bigelow-Sanford United’s, a soccer club sponsored by the Amsterdam carpet manufacturer.
The Recorder reported, “With pipers piping and a total of three bands contributing to a musical background, the Bigelow-Sanford team squeezed out a 3-2 victory over picked players from the Royal British Navy Saturday night at Mohawk Mills Park in the greatest soccer show of all time in Amsterdam.”
Ed McKnight scored twice for the locals and Howie Dynes scored once. It was the first local soccer game under the lights. Rain made the field slippery.
Great Britain was at war with Germany when the benefit was played to raise funds for British relief.
The Bigelow-Sanford soccer team formed in 1893. Gavin “Guy” Murdoch, who fought in World War I with the Canadian army, was anonymous editor of United’s PX, a monthly newsletter published during World War II
Guy Murdoch was a quality supervisor at Mohawk Carpet. His grandson Gavin Murdoch, retired Amsterdam high school principal, provided information for this story.
Tollner’s ice cream occupied a white building on Route 5 in Fort Johnson near the railroad tracks, west of the main gate of St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Willis Tollner, Sr., started the popular shop with his father, Fred Tollner, in 1935.
Willis Tollner, Sr., died in 1955 at 47. Also that year Willis’s father Fred and his wife moved to Yonkers, New York, where one of their daughters lived.
Willis Senior’s sons Willis Junior (Bill) and Ron operated the ice cream shop in its later years according to Fort Johnson native Shirley Kosinski.
Bill Tollner, married Fran, who had worked as a carhop. They relocated to western New York and have four children. Ron Tollner died young, leaving his wife Peggy Van Patten Tollner and one son.
Monday, January 3, 2022- Today’s Story Behind the Story podcast is an audio version of Saturday’s column on top history columns of 2021. Long and short of it Monday Story "6 Minutes"
Tollner’s closed and the building was torn down along with many other structures when Route 5 in Fort Johnson and Tribes Hill was rebuilt in the 1960s as a four lane highway.
Paul Guttenberg, who headed Mortan’s men’s store in Amsterdam until it closed in 1990, passed away in August 2021. Paul was born in New York City in 1927, the son of H. Morton and Pearl Rauch Guttenberg.
Mortan’s was named after Paul's father, who moved his clothing store from Schenectady to Amsterdam in 1933. Despite launching in the Depression, Mortan’s prospered at several East Main Street locations. Mortan’s last store was in the downtown mall.
In his memoir “Too Long Ago” about growing up in Amsterdam, historian David Pietrusza wrote, “Imagine Paul Newman operating a clothing store in Amsterdam, and, you have an approximation of Paul Guttenberg, whose skill in making a sale was prodigious.”
Guttenberg was a U.S. Marine veteran and graduate of Union College. After Mortan’s closed he pursued other interests including skiing and flying airplanes.
The Guttenbergs made their home in Broadalbin. In 2007 Paul and his wife Susanne, a health administrator, assumed ownership of Montgomery Meadows, a 120-bed nursing home on Amsterdam’s South Side. The facility was renamed River Ridge Living Center.
Eleanore Cramer Breier, widow of late Amsterdam mayor and industrialist Marcus Breier, died last May in Miami, Florida at 101. A graduate of Ithaca College, Eleanore was a physical education teacher at the former Theodore Roosevelt Junior High in Amsterdam.
Veteran radio broadcaster and Mohawk Valley Daily Gazette reporter Sam Zurlo, 90, died October 25 at his Tribes Hill home. In July a column had chronicled Zurlo’s early working years when he was in the U.S. Army, a disc jockey and newsman at Armed Forces Radio Service in Frankfurt, Germany.
Tomorrow, Sunday, January 2, 2022-From the Archives- March 8, 2019-Episode 256-Robin Oliveira discusses her book “Winter Sisters,” set in Albany, N.Y., in 1879. Oliveira grew up in the Albany area and is also author of a novel about a Civil War physician, “My Name is Mary Sutter.” Sutter is a major character in “Winter Sisters.”
Amsterdam and Mohawk Valley Weather, Saturday, January 1, 2022
New Year's Day
A chance of showers before 9am, then a chance of rain after 9am. Areas of dense fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 46. Light east wind. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight
Rain likely, mainly after midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 36. Northeast wind 3 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Sunday
Rain likely before 1pm, then rain and snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 38. Northeast wind 5 to 9 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
January 1, 1808
The United States bans the importation of slaves.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines for Saturday, January 1, 2022
Daily Gazette
Area counties hit new highs on COVID; state doubles down on masks, tests, shots
ALBANY — While state government will kick up the current countermeasures, it currently has no plans for a lockdown as…
EDITORIAL: Thank you, readers, for sharing Your Voice
After the tumultuous presidential election year of 2020 and the outbreak of the first worldwide pandemic in 100 years, it…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
ConnectGen proposing second large-scale solar project in Glen
Looking back at local sports in 2021
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Area counties hit new highs on COVID; state doubles down on masks, tests, shots
by John Cropley
https://www.leaderherald.com/