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Any of you older gents remeber any gun shops up in Meadville, Pa. ?
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We even have our own mini Grand Canyon:
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And the best collection of hunting camps in the entire U.S.A.
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Any of you older gents remeber any gun shops up in Meadville, Pa. ? Selly Almon Sporting Goods (not quite sure about the spelling) was one I vaguely remember. I think Leupold used it in one of their ads when there was a really rainy first day of buck season, about 1966, I think. I think that particular store got a huge number of fogged scopes in for repair but not one Leupold.
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Any of you older gents remeber any gun shops up in Meadville, Pa. ? Selly Almon Sporting Goods (not quite sure about the spelling) was one I vaguely remember. I think Leupold used it in one of their ads when there was a really rainy first day of buck season, about 1966, I think. I think that particular store got a huge number of fogged scopes in for repair but not one Leupold. There was a gunshop in Meadville called Robbies Gunshop (late 40's early 50's).......my dad was related to the owner.....heaerrd some stories about it.
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Robbies was open until the late 90's when a Taco Bell took it's place.
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There is a gunshop in Sugarcreek, PA that I try to visit when up in PA. That guy has some pretty cool old rifles. Cant think of the name of it though, he has an automotive shop in the same building.
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Any of you south western Pa. guys remember Buck Trews Gun Shop in Bentlyville?
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Any of you south western Pa. guys remember Buck Trews Gun Shop in Bentlyville? I grew up a couple blocks away. Spent many days gawking at all the mounts. Probably purchased my first half dozen hunting licenses at Trew's. There just aren't many places like that around anymore. I'm pretty sure the building isn't even there anymore.
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You ever get up to Cooks forest. Drive on up to the Farmers Inn in Sigel,Pa. http://thefarmersinn.com/ Great place to eat. dave
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The gunshop in Sugarcreek, PA that I mentioned is called T&L Guns.
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I pass by Siegel on the way North. Will give it a look. Of course will also have to stop in the Siegel Hotel just for old times sake.
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In our neck of the woods- Herndon/Dornsife/Dalmatia- the older generations were truly bilingual. Pennsylvania Dutch was heard as much as English. In fact my grandparents spoke more "Dutch" than they did English, especially between themselves. (Don'tcha know?) The summer of '71, I was a laborer for Dean Carl of Carl's Masonry out of Herndon. They'd drive up to South Williamsport every day. We were putting up a three story apartment building. The older guys usually spoke Dutch to each other because it was more natural than English. Hard work and fun times. The one day, Dean hollered over to his cousin, Donny: "Hey, Donny. I chust saved yer life!" "How's that, Dean?" "I chust killed a [bleep]-eatin' fly!"
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If you are from PA well at least the central part you know Chicken pot pie is not a pie.
Its amazing the range of vocab in PA, my moms family is extremely dutchy(another term only PA people know). At my one great uncle's funeral more people spoke PA dutch then english. My Dads family was from Osceolo area and quite a bit of that vocab has made it into me as well.
My wifes from Philly and still shakes her head at a lot of it, or when we were dating she would look at me with this what did he say look on her face.
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If you are from PA well at least the central part you know Chicken pot pie is not a pie.
Its amazing the range of vocab in PA, my moms family is extremely dutchy(another term only PA people know). At my one great uncle's funeral more people spoke PA dutch then english. My Dads family was from Osceolo area and quite a bit of that vocab has made it into me as well.
My wifes from Philly and still shakes her head at a lot of it, or when we were dating she would look at me with this what did he say look on her face. Ask your wife why people from Philly pronounce water as "wooter".
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Any of you south western Pa. guys remember Buck Trews Gun Shop in Bentlyville? I grew up a couple blocks away. Spent many days gawking at all the mounts. Probably purchased my first half dozen hunting licenses at Trew's. There just aren't many places like that around anymore. I'm pretty sure the building isn't even there anymore. Same here, it was an awesome gun shop. Dad bought me a used Rifle there, it was a 760 in 06 with a 4x Weaver for 90 bucks. Wish I still had it, it got stolen out of our house when the wife and I moved to town so she could go to school.
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We even have our own mini Grand Canyon: Oh I've spent many a week there. Hiking and hunting all the fire roads and trails. We used to take 422 all the "back home" from NE Ohio. Long before I80 was completed. It was an all day journey, back to Shamokin. My uncle worked at the Glen Burn too. But got the lung very early and had to remain above ground. I took the tour once.. maybe in the 70's? It is an old hole. Large enough to be a civil defense shelter for the entire town. 4-5000? My grandparents never did speak english much. My father was bi-lingual. ( one of the reasons the Army sent him to the Aluteians! ) And then to Europe in time to cross the Rhine with Patton ) He was one of thirteen children, all gone now. With too many cousins and grand cousins to count. Now, we're all scattered hither and yon.
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I took the tour once.. maybe in the 70's? It is an old hole. Large enough to be a civil defense shelter for the entire town. 4-5000?
Yeah, that mine was one very deep hole- maybe a mile deep as I recall? It's been a long time. It sure scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, and still gives me the willies when I think about it. Everybody heated with coal, and it didn't take long for pristine fresh-fallen snow to take on a gray sheen from the perpetual smog that hung over the small towns. One of my daily chores as a little kid was to shovel coal from the coal bin into the hopper on the furnace, and help the old man dig the clinkers out of the grate. I can still see the steam locomotives (in use 'til the late 50's) pulling long trains of coal cars on the lines that hugged both sides of the Susquehanna River, and the poor people who couldn't afford coal delivery walking along those tracks with burlap bags- looking for chunks of coal that had fallen off of those trains. Anthracite truly was the blessing, and the curse, for that region.
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I took the tour once.. maybe in the 70's? It is an old hole. Large enough to be a civil defense shelter for the entire town. 4-5000?
Yeah, that mine was one very deep hole- maybe a mile deep as I recall? It's been a long time. It sure scared the bejesus out of me as a kid, and still gives me the willies when I think about it. Everybody heated with coal, and it didn't take long for pristine fresh-fallen snow to take on a gray sheen from the perpetual smog that hung over the small towns. One of my daily chores as a little kid was to shovel coal from the coal bin into the hopper on the furnace, and help the old man dig the clinkers out of the grate. I can still see the steam locomotives (in use 'til the late 50's) pulling long trains of coal cars on the lines that hugged both sides of the Susquehanna River, and the poor people who couldn't afford coal delivery walking along those tracks with burlap bags- looking for chunks of coal that had fallen off of those trains. Anthracite truly was the blessing, and the curse, for that region. I love the smell of an anthracite fire; it is a childhood memory that I shall never forget.
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