Ruth McEvoy Collection 24 - Genesee County

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RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 62 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Skating Rink (cont) The Mancuso lot on Evans Street considered for a rink. 2-5-1976 The Council okays the purchase of Mancuso land for a skating rink and fire station. The City mailed an application for $750,000 of federal funds for the rink on 5-11-1976 Evans Street. 10-18-1976 The rink at the Fairgrounds is open to the public. See also: Batavia Ice Arena. 1-15-1977 The Council ponders the split of federal funds between the skating rink and library. 6-21-1977 The Council okays a contract for the rink - to cost $1.1 million. 11-1-1977 Winegar on the rinks around town that he remembers. 12-15-1977 Rink on Route 98 has its grand opening. 6-30-1978 Rink nearing completion - picture. 6-30-1978 Ronald Setzer to become Recreation Director - head of the rink. 9-12-1978 Elizabeth Blake of Williamsville - skating instructor (for the YW.) 11-1-1978 Skating rink opened yesterday - Sunday. 11-13-1978 7,800 used the rink in November and December - income high. 2-16-1979 Setzer urges $30,000 acoustical improvements. 9-11-1979 Keith Nolk, new rink director. Rink 85' x 200' - they told me. Spring 1979 Lindsay Out. here to play with Batavia youngsters. 12-8-1980 Rink short $30,000 for 1980. 2-9-1981 The City to convert heat in the rink and fire house to gas - now electric. 8-10-1981 The Rink is losing money beyond subsidy by the City. 2-14-1983 The Rink is short double in 1982 - the Council chides rink officials. Setzer to charge everyone at the rink - kids can no longer just hang around and 2-15-1983 not pay. 2-18-1983 Opening delayed by a leak in the pipes. 9-16-1985 Winegar on skating in the City. 11-1-1985 Structural problems for the Rink - walls leak gas, skaters troubled. 7-15-1986 The City asks for new bids at lower costs. 6-7-1988 The Mancuso family supported the Skating Rink in the late 1989s and 1990s. no date The Nobles family offered to run the rink as Royal Rink Recreation Center. 10-16-1993 Managers outline plans. 12-1-1993 Ad: Learn to skate at the Rink. See also: Royal Rink. New agreement with the City charges the rink for utility costs, separate from 12-29-1993 the fire hall. 2-10-1998 or 1988 Nobles add a Laser Tag game in May, becoming popular with skaters. Speakers ask the Council to put $100,000 in the budget to pay for new boards 7-17-1999 and glass. 3-6-2001 Skehan, John Dead at 84. Worked for Michael Dailey, then the Dailey family for years. Embalmer - worked with Richard Delaney. 9-5-1944 Skelley, Andrew W. Skelley & Russell bought the store at 34 Main from Michael Maloney. 7-30-1894 To erect a 3 story building with an iron front at 34 Main. 8-25-1894 Skelley & Russell to dissolve - Skelley to retire. 3-4-1902 Skelley retires, Skelley & Russell to become Russell & Sons. 3-29-1902 Skelley buys half interest with Russell in the coal business of A. Ferris. 7-31-1911 Ferris & Skelley buy Mylcrane business, to enlarge. 10-31-1911 Obit. Mrs. Skelley closes the home at 44 Ellicott Avenue to make an extended visit 12-8-1928 to New York. 12-16-1931 Obit - Mrs. A. W. Skelley of 44 Ellicott Avenue. 1-11-1943 Skelley and Russell Have bought a lot on East Main Street, 30' front, extending back on Cemetery St. To build a brick building for the grocery. Bought from John Henty of Alexander. Henty to build next door on the rest of the lot. (Afterwards, Selesky.) 4-<strong>24</strong>-1884 Buy 34 Main from the estate of Michael Moloney. 7-30-1894
RUTH McEVOY COLLECTION 63 SUBJECT TEXT DATE Skelley and Russell (cont) Tearing down the Moloney store at 34 Main. Will erect a handsome 3 story brick with and iron front. First floor store, above offices and apartments. 8-25-1894 Homelius to put the iron front on 34 Main and to do woodwork. 9-9-1894 Galvanized iron front of is very attractive, gives interest to monotonous store fronts. 10-18-1894 Russell & Sons succeeding Skelley and Russell. Andrew W. Skelley and Russell started 22 years ago (1880). Purchased the grocery business of Clarence W. Higgins on the east corner of State and Main Streets - now the Enterprise Store. Four years later moved to its permanent location at 58 Main - directly opposite. 3-29-1902 Skelley and Russell dividing the property - Russell deeds his interest in Mayer's Hotel - among others. 5-2-1902 Skelton, Mary McCabe Makes ornaments of beeswax, exhausting the beeswax supply - picture. 6-19-1995 Skelton's home-based business in beeswax increases three fold. 1-28-1999 Batavia Sketch Club To meet with Miss Lena Kingsley of Ellicott Avenue. 2-27-1901 To meet with Miss Hamilton. 3-6-1901 To meet with May Fix. 3-13-1901 To meet with Miss Douglas. Hires Mildred Green, artist with Buffalo Express, gave first lesson today - meet 4-10-1901 every Thursday morning. 4-18-1901 Ski Hut Strobel's Ski Hut open - picture. 9-7-1978 Skill, Philip A. To become general manager of the Batavia Drummer, following Thomas Turnbull who goes to the Daily News. Skill was an announcer at WBTA until March 1986 when he went to the drummer. 1-12-1993 Skinner, Ivan Dorothy Porter on - butcher for A & P. 5-25-1968 Obit, 89 - in Florida. 8-27-1992 Skip Day 100 at BHS observe. 5-25-1972 Skotedis, Victor In a new building, Victor's Grill. Safe belonging to Skotedis of Victor's Grill with $3,500 stolen from his Alexander 2-14-1948 home. 10-16-1959 Safe found in a ditch, empty. 4-14-1960 Asks for a sewer connection for Victor's Restaurant. 9-<strong>24</strong>-1963 Skupien, Rev. Joseph F. Welcomed to Sacred Heart. 2-4-1969 Father Skupein honored on the 25th Anniversary of his ordination. 6-19-1972 Elevated to Monsignor - picture. 1-28-1989 Retiring tomorrow - Sunday. Here 27 years. 4-20-1996 Sky Harbor Sales Co. Rich Fancher, manager, opens a mobil homes sales place, next to Babcock Mobil Park. 5-27-1987 Sky Room See: Airport Restaurant. Airport restaurant open under new management and new name - Fred Scoins of the Onion Patche in Elba. 12-21-1976 Slade, W. H. Of Belmont, to open a drug store in the Gam Brothers Building, 72 Main Street. 8-16-1912 Slaughter Houses John Ditzel and Brothers on New Buffalo Road. 1883 Quirk & Haniz on Bank Street burned. The slaughter house on Oak Street plus five acres bought from the bankrupt 7-13-1886 Uebele by Joseph Luplow for $350. 7-31-1900
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