Entered a very optimistic order with Bill Campbell for his pottery today despite the fact that we saw only two customers. (Thanks Charles F. and Jack B.) There will be quite a collection of vases this time around . . . TheBurg reports that the former Ron Brown Charter School buildings along Third Street at Boas have been repurchased by a for-profit education firm which could signal another attempt at a center city charter school. It was hoped that the properties might become storefronts and offices to compliment the growing business district in that area . . . I've been thinking about Sunday's post concerning the closing of dairy stores in Wales and realized that the same thing has already happened here. Remember the soda shoppes and ice cream parlors we once had? In the Bedford-Johnstown area in the '50s they were Dairy Dell with sit-down service and lots of ice cream treats. Dairy Queen and Twin Kiss were springing up to serve the drive-in crowd. When I came to Harrisburg in the early '60s we walked up Sixth Street to Maclay a few evenings a week to partake of sweets at Dairy Maid. They (and other places across the country) served a gigantic banana split in a trough-shaped container; if you ate it all you got a button to wear: I was a pig at -----. We still have BBBs and Dairy Queen of course, but nothing to compare with those other-era venues with vinyl booths and a jukebox . . . Some home decor for the Thanksgiving get-together. The pilgrims are $16.50 the set (we have two sets), the turkey is $20 (also two) and the embroidered dish towel is $5.25 (only a couple left) . . .
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