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Post by jon hynes on Mar 29, 2009 14:19:34 GMT -5
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Post by jon hynes on Mar 29, 2009 14:21:26 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Mar 30, 2009 16:33:15 GMT -5
Gee Dave. I still fish with a favorite spinning rod from Horrocks and Ibbotson. It is a 6 1/2 foot fibreglass rod, and I purchased it in the 60's from the Gravesville Store, in Gravesville, NY. Gravesville Store is a small general store with everything from hardware to fresh meats and is still there.
I also have a bamboo three piece fly rod that was my father's many years ago. He says his dad bought it for him in the early 40's. It is also Horrocks and Ibbotson. That is stored in the original cloth bag and I have never fished with it. I am sure it is brittle by now.
The fibreglass spinning rod rivals all of my newer graphite rods, costing $60 and $70 a piece, when it comes to "feeling the bite" and sensitivity. I think I paid $9 for it back in the 60's, LOL.
Horrocks and Ibbotson is another mill building that was very distinct and could be seen when coming over the old Baggs Square bridge. It had a tall tower like structure that was built to hang fly lines to dry during the manufacturing process.
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Post by WestmoGuy on Mar 30, 2009 18:53:00 GMT -5
Clipper, would you believe before they tore the Globe/Ibbotson building down, there was still Horrocks Ibbotson stuff in there??
My brother somehow owned it for a while. It was so cool seeing all the old stuff in there, and there were a lot of barrels of stuff that I think got buried when they tore that and the old Center Hotel down.
The Center Hotel was sure a grand place once, but when I used to go in there working for Kunkle it smelled of booze and pee.
;D
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Post by Clipper on Mar 30, 2009 19:42:37 GMT -5
I agree with you about the old Central Hotel, Westmoguy. I have to say though, that it did give a lot of poverty stricken and destitute people a place to live besides under the Bagg Square Bridge. We used to get calls there when I worked on the ambulance also, and yes, it definitely DID smell of pee, booze, and other "not so enticing aromas" LOL. Joe took care of those old guys, and made sure that they ate something, and were sheltered from the elements, even though it was not the Radisson. Had the people that we took out of their on a stretcher not been living there, they most likely would have died in the hobo camps along the north side of the tracks, along the road to the sewer plant, or under the bridges and in abandoned buildings.
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 30, 2009 22:05:34 GMT -5
Westmo, my mother's second job out of high school in the 1920's was as a rod winder at HI. She woulnd the line guides on the rods. I still have a minature rod (2 feet) some guy assembled for her when he
was trying to get her attention!
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 30, 2009 22:06:55 GMT -5
Clip, yes I remember the building. Pretty old structure.
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Post by WestmoGuy on Mar 31, 2009 10:26:38 GMT -5
Sad there's only a few pictures I can find of the old Globe Building.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 31, 2009 11:26:19 GMT -5
Your mom had a very tedious and intricate job. She must have had great vision. I rewind my own rods and replace my own line guides, with a jig that I built to hold the rod blank, and a tensioner to hold tension on the thread as I turn the rod to wind the guides. A man named Frank Gohringer from Rome taught me to wind them, many years ago when I was just an apprenticed firefighter at Griffiss. He did beautiful work, and even made the jig for me to rest the rod blanks on while winding them.
Gee, I DID have to add a magnifier and light to the mix a few years ago, LOL.
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Post by dgriffin on Mar 31, 2009 12:57:58 GMT -5
Clip, yes I never knew how intricate it was until a fellow in Trout Unlimited showed me. He devised his own "numbers" for blanks, had them cast, and built rods for sale. Very tedious, and he did a beautiful job. Sounds like you learned from one of the best.
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Post by Clipper on Mar 31, 2009 13:54:46 GMT -5
It is tedious and intricate work. I taught a neighbor here in Bristol how to do it, and gave him the original equipment that Frank G. had made for me. I had since made another. When I used to fish bass tournaments on a regular basis, line guides wore out quickly. All that casting, 10 or 15 casts a minute sometimes, for 6 or 8 hours straight, would leave grooves in the eyes of the guides. Ceramic and other materials have made that less of a problem, and I seldom fish enough to "wear out" any rods any more, LOL. I think at last count I had something like 30 serviceable rods, ranging from ultra lite spinning to deep sea casting and spinning. I built an eight foot long rod rack, on wheels, so it can be moved about, and it holds about 40 or so rods. It also has a place for several large Plano boxes, and my canvas lure totes. I have many reels from many manufacturers, but I also have numerous Mitchell 300's and 301's, and they are still some of my favorite reels to fish with. I still buy them for parts, whenever I encounter one at a garage sale or flea market, and it is priced reasonably.
I would guess that we have wandered a long way from the Opera House at this point, but HI was a top of the line tackle and supply house for fisherman for a long time. Their quality and durability was like nothing you will buy today.
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 3, 2009 19:58:37 GMT -5
MAJESTIC UNDER
NEW MANAGEMENT
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Theater Opens Next Monday, November 6, With Progressive Vaudeville and Feature Pictures
Progressive vaudeville and feature pictures will be the policy of the Majestic theater under the new management of J. S. Burnham of Courtland, who had acquired the theater buy lease from the Majestic Amusement Company. Mr. Burnham now controls the following theaters: Temple Courtland; Temple Gouverneur; Carroll, Rome and Majestic Theater, Utica. The theater will reopen next Monday, November 6, with the new policy of five acts, and a feature picture, three shows a week. The Majestic is closed for the week to get everything in readiness for the grand opening.
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Post by jon hynes on Apr 3, 2009 20:00:07 GMT -5
The management of the theater will for the present be under the control of B. L. Burtt of Rome as Mr. Burnham's general representative. Mr, Burtt's experience in the theater business has been varied and extensive and he has promised to make the Majestic one of the up-to-date vaudeville theaters of Central New York. To outline some of his activities it would be necessary to include the management of Minor's Bronx theater, New York City, the Fifth Avenue theater New York City general supervision of four theaters in Watertown and his connection with the Progressive Burlesque Wheel. When Mr. Burtt took charge of the Carol Theater, Rome, the house has been closed and was dark because it had been a financial failure. To-day that same theater is one of the most successful theaters that Rome ever had.
The new policy of progressive vaudeville and feature pictures is the same successful policy that is being operated in all of the Burnham Theaters. To a representative of this paper Mr. Burtt said this morning: "It is our aim to give the public the best entertainment possible in vaudeville at the lowest prices, For example our opening bill includes Dr. Frederick Cook, the discoverer of the North Pole and Little Caruso, an opera company of six people from the Grand Opera House, New York City. Utican's will like our shows after they see them, and our prices are most reasonable. In the evening the prices range from 5c to 25c and in the afternoon from 5c to 15c, nothing higher. The ladies will be especially welcomed at the matinée and ladies matinées every day will be priced 10c for any seat. The shows will change twice weekly. For the first half of the week there will be a Fox feature and for the last half of the week a Metro feature. The first Fox feature will be "Under Two Flags," starring Theda Bara."
[1916]
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 3, 2009 22:27:51 GMT -5
I would guess your post is a good example of how Vaudeville switched over to films ... gradually, with theatres running both until Vaudeville died out. Great article!
I wonder where the term Vaudeville comes from?
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