Comments for Holyoke, Mass

Comment on Holyoke Catholic Basketball by Laurel

Laurel — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:15:52 +0000

Thanks Lora, I was distracted and forgot to add names.

Comment on Holyoke Catholic Basketball by Lora Barrett

Lora Barrett — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:51:22 +0000

Does anyone have the names?

Comment on Unsafe by Mark Zanger

Mark Zanger — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:49:01 +0000

I think I remember the music store, which was owned by a highlands neighbor, George something. The location I remember for the Polep Candy and Tobacco company (a wholesale enterprise) was an old railroad station farther into the flats. My father, who wholesaled newspapers, magazines, and (all too briefly, toys) at Holyoke News Company (at one point on the other end of Main Street, later by the canal and the Chicopee bridge, ultimately almost to West Springfield) was a second-generation colleage of the Mort Polep, the second generation of his enterprise. They may well have been on Main Street before the station. What else I remember toward that end of main street in the 50s was the Kotok wholesale fruit and vegetable company, another family business that were friends of ours. At some point Main street must have been main street, with retail stores, and later these became wholesale businesses?

Comment on Unsafe by Norm Barsalou

Norm Barsalou — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:35:22 +0000

Thanks for the update. I just don’t remember theMusic store.

Comment on Unsafe by Laurel

Laurel — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:35:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Norm. You are very close — I applaud your memory! I looked up O’Donnell’s in my 1952 Holyoke Phone Book and it is listed as being 417 Main Street. When I Googled 417 Main St., Holyoke it maps it as the building to the left of the one with the largest white roof with the red arrow on it — in the image above — and has it as a working music studio / percussion supply store called Holyoke Harp & Drum. I need to get this phone book in a database so I can do some reverse lookups.

Comment on Unsafe by Norm Barsalou

Norm Barsalou — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:01:43 +0000

O’Donnel’s Package Store, maybe, and next door a distributor of gum, candy and cigs, Polyps, or something close to that?

Comment on First Wedding in the Church by Norm Barsalou

Norm Barsalou — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:25:08 +0000

While distributing the Holyoke Transcript in the ’50s, Grace Church was a drop-off point. The drop-off use to be The Boys Club on Race St.

Comment on Modern Adaptation of Colorful English Country House by Laurel

Laurel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:44:57 +0000

Thanks for the nice comments about the site and post, Guy!

I love this post too, only wish I could have been there for the open house! I’ve been trying to find builders in the area also — not too much of a problem for the commercial and judging industrial-based builds but more so for the residential. Needs more research on my part, will definitely see what I can dig up!

Comment on Modern Adaptation of Colorful English Country House by Guy Berfield

Guy Berfield — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:35:13 +0000

Very interested in knowing of builders in the area during the 20’s
Wonderful Post !!
Wonderful site !!!
Thanks
Guy Berfield
East Hampton, New York

Comment on They Want to Abolish the Fishway by Laurel

Laurel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:22:23 +0000

Correction: above link to Reasonable Use is a preview …