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...a Thank You and then the British Navy sailed into town
Hidden History cover picture-Movie:Life Begins for Andy Hardy, released August 15, 1941
IMDB review https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033832/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
There's some bite in this eleventh installment of the Hardy series. Unfortunately, there's also a forced retreat from any kind of controversial follow-through. In the end, the tried and true verities of small town America are once again affirmed, but then that is exactly what audiences expected from this pre-war version of Ozzie and Harriet.
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. Monday story "7 Minutes"
The Historians with Bob Cudmore and the Stories about people you know
Tuesday, January 4, 2022- From the Archives of Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-The fire at the Sanford Stud Farm
A tragic event in Amsterdam’s history was the January 9, 1939 fire that killed 25 thoroughbred horses and did $200,000 damage
Wednesday, January 5, 2022- From the Archives- Episode 58, April 26, 2015 David Fiske, Ballston Spa historian, on the chocolate factory in that village and the latest on Solomon Northrup, 12 years a slave.
Thursday, January 6, 2022- From the Archives of Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-Guadalcanal diary
Frequent contributor Richard Ellers has memories of Joseph A. Bucci, an Amsterdam man who fought heroically in World War II.
Friday, January 7, 2022-Episode 404-Evacuation Day was November 25, 1783, the day the British left New York City finally ending the American Revolution. Attorney and historian Jim Kaplan discusses the significance of Evacuation Day and how the day has been commemorated through the years.
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.
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, Monday, January 3, 2022
Much colder weather is expected today with a partly to
mostly cloudy sky. After a mostly clear and cold night tonight, dry
weather will continue on Tuesday with temperatures moderating closer
to normal. Temperatures will return above normal for Wednesday with
a few passing showers, but will return back close to normal for
Thursday. Some snow is possible for Friday.
Coming soon on Historians Podcast-January 14, 2022-Episode 405-Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League has stories from the booklet on Amsterdam’s arts
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Monday, January 3, 2022
Daily Gazette
COVID continues to surge as schools prepare to reopen
CAPITAL REGION — The number of reported coronavirus cases continued to climb across the state this past weekend, with Albany…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Rebranding of dairy princess to ambassador program to nix sash and crown for a nametag
CAPITAL REGION — Young farmers have long served as the face of the local dairy industry, often...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Johnstown’s water plant operator will stay on the job
by Andrew Waite
https://www.leaderherald.com/
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...a Thank You and then the British Navy sailed into town
Hidden History cover picture-Movie:Life Begins for Andy Hardy, released August 15, 1941
IMDB review https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033832/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
There's some bite in this eleventh installment of the Hardy series. Unfortunately, there's also a forced retreat from any kind of controversial follow-through. In the end, the tried and true verities of small town America are once again affirmed, but then that is exactly what audiences expected from this pre-war version of Ozzie and Harriet.
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. Monday story "7 Minutes"
The Historians with Bob Cudmore and the Stories about people you know
Tuesday, January 4, 2022- From the Archives of Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-The fire at the Sanford Stud Farm
A tragic event in Amsterdam’s history was the January 9, 1939 fire that killed 25 thoroughbred horses and did $200,000 damage
Wednesday, January 5, 2022- From the Archives- Episode 58, April 26, 2015 David Fiske, Ballston Spa historian, on the chocolate factory in that village and the latest on Solomon Northrup, 12 years a slave.
Thursday, January 6, 2022- From the Archives of Focus on History in the Daily Gazette-Guadalcanal diary
Frequent contributor Richard Ellers has memories of Joseph A. Bucci, an Amsterdam man who fought heroically in World War II.
Friday, January 7, 2022-Episode 404-Evacuation Day was November 25, 1783, the day the British left New York City finally ending the American Revolution. Attorney and historian Jim Kaplan discusses the significance of Evacuation Day and how the day has been commemorated through the years.
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.
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, Monday, January 3, 2022
Much colder weather is expected today with a partly to
mostly cloudy sky. After a mostly clear and cold night tonight, dry
weather will continue on Tuesday with temperatures moderating closer
to normal. Temperatures will return above normal for Wednesday with
a few passing showers, but will return back close to normal for
Thursday. Some snow is possible for Friday.
Coming soon on Historians Podcast-January 14, 2022-Episode 405-Jerry Snyder of Historic Amsterdam League has stories from the booklet on Amsterdam’s arts
Mohawk Valley News Headlines, Monday, January 3, 2022
Daily Gazette
COVID continues to surge as schools prepare to reopen
CAPITAL REGION — The number of reported coronavirus cases continued to climb across the state this past weekend, with Albany…
https://dailygazette.com/
Amsterdam Recorder
Rebranding of dairy princess to ambassador program to nix sash and crown for a nametag
CAPITAL REGION — Young farmers have long served as the face of the local dairy industry, often...
https://www.recordernews.com/
Leader Herald
Johnstown’s water plant operator will stay on the job
by Andrew Waite
https://www.leaderherald.com/