Saturday, December 17, 2011

You Might Be From Rochester If...

With a nod to Jeff Foxworthy, here's a list of things you might remember if you grew up in Rochester.  Feel free to add your own in the comments!

You might be from Rochester if...
  • you know where Bare A-- Beach was
  • you remember when going to McDonald's meant a trip all the way to Pontiac
  • you partied at the Haven
  • you got your milk from Joe Case's dairy truck
  • you liked shopping in the D&C because the floors were squeaky
  • you distributed show bills for the Hills Theatre
  • you remember when the town bowling alley was in the basement of a building on Main Street
  • you got all of your pairs of “school shoes” from Jack Burr at B-Z Bootery
  • you remember the Slaughterhouse Five controversy
  • you wore lederhosen - or a dirndl - to dance in the Maifest
  • you made an inner-tube raft for the Floatable Boatable
  • you got kicked off the ice at the municipal pond for playing crack-the-whip
  • you were scared of the River Gang
  • you were in the River Gang
  • you ate at the Big Boy drive-in on North Main next to the Dairy Queen
  • you bought penny candy at Rochester Junction
  • you know where the Sinclair station was
  • you painted “The Rock” at least once
  • you know what business Frank St. Onge was in
  • you played the pinball machine at Cunningham's – for a dime
  • you remember when part of the South Hill bridge collapsed
  • you know why it was fun to drive really fast over the old Elizabeth St. bridge

5 comments:

  1. I used to grind pennys down on the side wall of Cunningham's so they would work as dimes in the pinball machine.

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  2. Baseball in the summer, and sledding in the winter at the field at the end of North Hill shopping center.

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  3. I wouldn't have considered it "partying" (as I wasn't really into that until I got to college); rather, I would consider it to have "investigated" the Haven on numerous occassions!

    Duckworthy

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  4. The old wooden bridge on Second Street, east of Main...any photos???

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  5. Too many "yes" answers.... Adams High, '69 - '73. Grew up there, parents moved there in '50.

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