by Old Mentz | Jan 20, 2013 | 1925, downtown, Miller's Store, Port Byron, Rochester Street, winter storm
There are a series of photographs taken of the big 1925 winter storm when about three feet of snow fell on Port Byron and the region. Here is one that is seldom seen.Miller’s Store was in the second building from the corner. It is also listed as a grocery,...
by Old Mentz | Dec 22, 2012 | Cayuga County, Erie Canal, Lock 52, Mentz, Port Byron
Here is a view of Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 52, which was taken on a winters day when the canal. Compare this to the other photo of Lock 52.The wooden platform that the people are standing on was a strainer to keep floating debris out of the turbine / overflow culvert...
by Old Mentz | Dec 17, 2012 | Erie Canal, Lock 52, Port Byron
Enlarged Lock 52 replaced the older Clinton’s Ditch Lock 60, which was located just to the left of this photo. Here we are standing on the bank that separated Tanner’s Drydock from the canal. Just behind would be the entrance to the drydock works.Across...
by Old Mentz | Dec 9, 2012 | Don Gallagher, Erie Canal, Lock 52, Port Byron
The Lock 52 Historical Society takes its name from Lock 52 on the Erie Canal. I think Lock 52 is the only old canal lock you can see from the NYS Thruway, and many people see it, albeit very quickly, as they zoom by on the highway.The top photo was taken around 1935,...
by Old Mentz | Dec 7, 2012 | downtown, James M Hearn Grocery, Mentz, Park Hotel, Port Byron, Vaughan's Pharmacy
Here is the second part of our downtown walk about. Vaughan’s Pharmacy is seen to the left of the photo, then James M Hearn’s Grocery, Bert Schotz’s clothing store. If you need wallpaper, Vaughan’s is the place for you.
by Old Mentz | Dec 3, 2012 | Cayuga County, Crane's Department Store, downtown, Interurban railroad, Port Byron, trolley
(Click on the picture to see it in a larger size. This works with all the pictures on this blog.)Well, it is somewhere between June 1908 and 1931 in the downtown shopping area. We know this because of the trolley heading toward Auburn on the Auburn and Northern line....
by Old Mentz | Nov 26, 2012 | Don Gallagher
I never knew the man, but he deserves many thanks for preserving many of the photos I have been using here on this blog. Plus Don added descriptions to them, which is such a help many years after the fact. So Don, for all your work, here is to you.
by Old Mentz | Nov 26, 2012 | Cayuga County, Don Gallagher, Owasco Outlet, Port Byron, Rochester Street, St. John's Church
A view of St John’s that I have never seen before. Don Gallagher wrote;”Rochester Street in foreground. Left to right- Episcopal Church, St John’s R. Catholic Church, then Wellington (Bill) Bush home. Owasco Outlet on right side of picture. The...
by Old Mentz | Nov 23, 2012 | downtown, Mentz, Port Byron, shopping
Taken from a December 1922 Port Byron Chronicle.
by Old Mentz | Nov 23, 2012 | downtown, Port Byron
If you are cold after shoveling all that snow, stop in at the Trolley Restaurant for a warm pick me up.Year of this photo is unknown, but the John’s were running this ad in the 1920’s.
