Ruth McEvoy Collection 24 - Genesee County

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RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 6 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Scott & Bean To become a department store at 63-65-67 Main Street, to merge with Peters & Scott & Bean, Inc. (cont) Cotter - Worthington & Wood - J. E. Gubb Shoes. 2-7-1905 Plans changed - maybe later. 2-28-1905 Buys Peters & Cotter, 107 Main - S & B at 65 Main. 6-8-1905 Full page ad: Scott & Bean sale. 6-14-1905 Sale of Peters & Cotter stock so brisk the doors had to be closed. With C. C. Bradley, buy Holden stock. S & B now leaves the Peter & Cotter store 6-16-1905 at 65 Main. 7-10-1905 Tremendous sale of Holden Co. stock. 8-22-1905 Opened at 85 Main today. 9-15-1905 Take the third floor of the Dodge Building. 3-6-1907 To show furs. 11-11-1908 John Glade & Son to put a new front on. 7-19-1910 C. C. Bradley improving S & B. 7-21-1910 Has a handsome new delivery wagon. 2-24-1913 Now occupy part of the Curtis Building. Now occupies whole three story building on Main built by R. O. Holden, pioneer dry goods merchant as well as the third floor of the Curtis Building built by C. C. Bradley. The first floor of the Curtis Building has other concerns. Can pass from the third floor of Holden to the third floor of Curtis. May buy two 3-3-1917 building for $125,000. 7-6-1927 Sale completed. 7-8-1927 Plans alterations to the 2nd floor. 10-28-1930 New showcases, furniture installed. Edward Gorton and William MacLean both join S & B - both long associates. 11-22-1930 (History back to R. O. Holden.) 2-28-1935 Prepares for the "sale of the century." 3-5-1935 To remodel. 9-23-1935 Formal reopening after alterations. 10-31-1935 Picture. Plans $200,000 remodeling - to start April 19 with a new front - sketch - new fixtures, new showcases, new stairwell. To excavate the basement for 8-21-1939 household items. The third floor to be done later. Louis Viele, contractor. 4-9-1954 Opening after seven months of alterations - ads. Pictures of the interior, portraits. 11-10-1954 Proposes rebuilding. 6-24-1967 To rebuild 85 Main. To rehabilitate the present plant to UR. Plans submitted to UR. (Rehabilitation 8-22-1967 of 85 Main planned.) 10-10-1967 Decide to build in a new location. 12-19-1967 Stymied on the purchase of a site in the Court Street area. 2-6-1968 Way cleared for S & B to buy a site in the Urban Renewal area. 3-29-1968 Buy the General Travel Bureau from Schultz. 5-25-1968 Checked in a building in Court Street area to stay in business. 11-16-1968 Purchases the Bern Building, 86 Main Street. 1-25-1969 Report on demolition. Court rules UR must pay $89,000 for the S & B building - the balance between 10-25-1969 that and $46,000 paid. 1-3-1970 UR buys the S & B building for $89,000 - price asked October 2, 1969. 1-5-1970 To build in the Mall. 1-6-1973 Moves to the Mall. Now open - picture ca 1920. History of Back to R. O. Holden and G. A. Lay in 1886. John L. Thorn bought out Lay in 1847. Hinman Holden joined his father 10-14-1976 in 1880 and it became R. O. Holden & Son. Sold in 1905 to Scott & Bean Co. 11-10-1976 Has divided space in the Mall - advertises the south half for renting. February 1986 To celebrate its 150th Anniversary - oldest continuing business concern. In the Mall. Started with 5,000sqft, now has 3,500sqft. James Gorton says his father started working in the store at age 9. His grandmother was a 4-21-1986
RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 7 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Scott & Bean seamstress for the store. His grandfather died about then and the whole Scott & Bean, Inc. (cont) family had to work. Dates back to 1902. 3-9-1988 Kay Houseknecht says S & B will close. Says it started in 1836 - R. O. Holden. 5-17-1993 Picture of 85 Main Street. 9-18-1999 Scott Mill Was built 5 miles north of the village on Bank Street Road - originally a distillery, then a grist mill. Had a deer park around it. Burned 20 years ago. Willis Sanford has a picture in his funeral parlor, a sketch by George H. Edwards,, painted in oil later by William Wood, the brother of John and Frank. Sanford learned milling in the old mill. Past & Present column. 1-11-1913 Scott's Corners On Bank Street Road in 1892. Scotty's Char-Broil Donald Bausch of LeRoy opening this week. 4-21-1981 Official opening - ribbon cut by Mr. Bausch's son Scott. 7-6-1981 Scotty says good-bye - closing March 28. 3-23-1987 Cecil & Pauline Kisiel buy. 5-27-1987 Puts in a carhop on roller skates - picture. 7-8-1987 Cecil Kisiel owns, all help in costume for Halloween Week. In the summer of 1989 the eatery became the Town & Country Restaurant run by Town & Country of Rochester, NY. 10-29-1987 Scoville, Lewis M. Passes the bar exams. 6-15-1973 Opening an office at 97 Main, over Sleght's - was with Richard H. Schults. 4-3-1974 Winegar on Scoville and Walk-a-thon. 8-9-1985 Joining Harry L. Brown in a law office in Warsaw - Brown & Scoville. 3-28-1987 Obit - aged 44, was working on a car in a closed garage. 12-9-1988 Scoville, Wayne Requested a permit to build a Kart track on Lehigh Avenue, Town of Batavia. Requests a permit to install a storage tank for liquid petroleum on Lehigh Avenue. no date The Town Board puts the request off for further study. 9-26-1995 Scoville, William Mayor of Elba. 3-11-1970 Scrap Dealers See also: Junk Dealers. Scrap Dealers Association of Genesee County organized, Jacob Barsuk heads. 2-2-1943 Scrap Drives Several barrels of glass and tin collected for the war effort. 10-21-1914 Ten more wagon loads of glass and tin collected. 10-24-1914 Old tires gathered in the war effort. 9-12-1918 Scrap to the value of $600 collected. 9-23-1918 Collection of aluminum at 10 Jackson Street. 7-23-1941 Scouts to take charge of aluminum collection. 7-24-1941 Picture of the collection. 7-25-1941 Picture of trucks loaded with metal. 4-14-1942 Enough metal collected for two medium tanks. 4-21-1942 Five day metal drive brings in 141 tons of metal. 4-27-1942 Goal for the County is 620 tons of scrap. 5-12-1942 Rubber called for - ask for five pounds for each citizen. 6-24-1942 Picture of the rubber collection. 6-26-1942 The County collects almost 300 tons of scrap rubber. 7-9-1942 "Treasure Hunt" held for scrap. 9-29-1942 Proposed to put trolley rails in scrap. 10-2-1942 Cannon balls to go into the drive. 10-3-1942 Revealed trolley tracks never given to the city - cannot put them into the drive. 10-5-1942 Some delays in removing the trolley rails. 10-5 to 11-7-1942 Air spotters to guard the scrap pile. 10-15-1942
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