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...first, Bob is on the virtual road this month "Sunday chatter 38 Minutes"
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.”
Soccer, ice cream and men’s clothing among 2021’s topics
By Bob Cudmore
Tomorrow, 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"
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.
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.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Sunday, January 2, 2022
Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet likely before 11am, then rain and snow likely between 11am and 4pm, then a chance of snow after 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of snow, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 17. Northwest wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 27. Northwest wind around 8 mph.
Little know History
Early 1920
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to arrest suspected socialists, mostly Italian immigrants and Eastern European immigrants and especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Sunday, January 2, 2021
Daily Gazette
‘A dream of mine’: Couple gains speed in second season owning Royal Mountain
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ALBANY — While state government will kick up the current countermeasures, it currently has no...
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Leader Herald
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By Bob Cudmore...first, Bob is on the virtual road this month "Sunday chatter 38 Minutes"
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.”
Soccer, ice cream and men’s clothing among 2021’s topics
By Bob Cudmore
Tomorrow, 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"
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.
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.
Mohawk Valley Weather, Sunday, January 2, 2022
Rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet likely before 11am, then rain and snow likely between 11am and 4pm, then a chance of snow after 4pm. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Light and variable wind becoming west 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than one inch possible.
Tonight
A chance of snow, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly clear, with a low around 17. Northwest wind 8 to 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Monday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 27. Northwest wind around 8 mph.
Little know History
Early 1920
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to arrest suspected socialists, mostly Italian immigrants and Eastern European immigrants and especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Sunday, January 2, 2021
Daily Gazette
‘A dream of mine’: Couple gains speed in second season owning Royal Mountain
For Jake Tennis this is the second year of living his dream. Tennis, who is 35, has been working at…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
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...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Looking back at local sports in 2021
https://www.leaderherald.com/