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In 1945, the Grayhound bus station was in Hunker’s Drug Store. Hunker’s was at the corner of Railroad and Main Streets. The train, seems like it was always the B & O, ran up down Railroad Street and the passenger station was on the other side of the street to the south. The town was at its apex of development. On Main Street, there were a number of stores including Klein’s Dry Goods, Siegel’s shoe store, Frere’s Hardware, a newsstand, Sadler’s Five and Dime and of course, Barney Maple’s theatre and restaurant. The post office was close to the shoe store but it seems like there was something else between them. There were two beer gardens and one state liquor store. One beer garden was DeGardyn’s and I have forgotten the name of the other. I’ve also forgotten how to spell Degardine? The A & P was next to the five and dime. Of course there was a bowling alley. When I was in about the 5th or 6th grade, Boyer’s Ice Cream store came to town. Next to that was the location of Ross’s Grocery. Sometime the Carlier Bakery appeared, I’m not sure exactly when. A little shoe repair shop nestled next to Hunker’s Drug Store. Sprinkled about town, there were other stores. Cupelli’s grocery store was several blocks away and the Rhodes had a grocery on Railroad Street.
On the way out of town towards the Cheat river bridge, on one side of the street you would pass the Maple’s stately home, the Frank Bowers home, and John McClain home. On the either side next to the filling station is where Dr. Hunger lived. I’ve always wondered why they put a filling station next to his house and whether he protested or not. Dr. Buvinger lived on that side of the street too. And of course there were a lot of other houses, I just didn’t know who lived in them.
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The Greyhound station was in Hunker's, but it was at the corner of Railroad and Penn streets. Today it is used for storage for Clarmac's furniture store.
The shoe repair shop was Palermo's, I believe. I think the other bar was the Brass Rail on Main Street.
The service station next to Dr. Hunker's was my grandfather's, Gale Guseman. He later moved to Morris Cross Roads with the station, where they had their home.
My uncle, Chuck Emory, worked at the A&P for a while.(He married my aunt, Marjorie Guseman.) I was always embarrassed to go in there, as you had to ask for everything and someone would get it for you. Invariably, my mother would send me in for onions and bathroom tissue.
I remember going into Ross' store during WWII and using little red coins to buy things. We also had to use paper coupons for items like coffee, sugar, salt, etc.
Carol
Another bar on Penn St. was Augie Jordans. It was in what was formerly the old Devlin Hotel. Do you know that Point Marion once had three hotels. The Devlin Hotel on Penn St. The Colonial Hotel, originally called the Harvey House, on Main St. and the Quertermonts Hotel on corner of Broadway and Railroad St. Point Marion was a jumping town when it was selling whiskey to trains. Gordon
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