Museum InteriorHallett PlaqueOver 100 hundred people - including officials of the town and other historical societies - crowded onto the sunny sidewalk in front of the Lodi Museum to witness its grand opening on June 30.

Antique cars owned by Lewis Rosbaugh, Bob Covert and John Mulford were parked at the curb.

Following a welcome by president Carolyn Zogg, an original song, "Lodi," was sung by Marj Wilson Clark of Interlaken, who also performed "Bless This House."

LODI HAD EVERYTHING YOU NEEDED

By Paulette Likoudis

She's one of the newest lifetime members of the Lodi Historical Society, and she's a prime example of why its membership includes folks living from coast to coast.

Main StWhen Lynnette Trippiedi of Henderson, Nevada, signed the guest book at the Lodi Museum during a recent visit here, she wasn't seeing the quiet, bolted

storefronts along Main Street for the first time. She had walked through many of those doorways. When she sent her membership check, she wrote to say she had seen the new museum and was "impressed with its beginning."

Caywood Trackside Bldgs

Ninety-year-old Clayton Smith Porter of Florida responded to the spring issue's mystery photo of "Porter's Hired Helpers," taken at one of the trackside buildings near the Caywood Station on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. He and his wife, Warda, recently celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary.

 

"I remember this building being built for packing fruit. From there, the fruit was loaded into "refrigerated" cars on the railroad. An ice house was in the north end of the packing house to ice the cars. The ice was cut from the Porter and Campbell dam in the winter and was hauled down in bob sleighs."

Lodi Union School c.1914

HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED...

The six-member 1932 class of the Lodi High School held its commencement exercises at the Lodi Methodist Church (now the Lodi Historical Building) at 8:15 p.m. on June 28, 1932.

After music by an unnamed "orchestra," the Rev. F.E. Hewitt offered an invocation. Each senior delivered a presentation. The salutatory address, "Sportsmanship in Life," was given by E. Marie Withiam and the valedictory was "Development of the Radio," by Jason E. Newman.

Eagle Hotel

By Ruth Myer

Lodi was attractive to me, as a young teenager, because summer dances were held in the old Masonic Hall - now used as the town hall.

There was always a live band and round dancing, sometimes square dancing. This was in the days before I met my husband, LeConte. Sometimes I got a ride with friends, or once in a while, had a date.

I remember one summer night when there was to be a dance in Lodi and I greatly longed to go. We lived on Bassett Road at the time. Possibly, it was the summer after I graduated.

2007 Cover‘TIS THE SEASON FOR PARADES - In this undated photo of a fireman's parade in Seneca Falls, William Dohrer (with cigar) rides along with his son William Dohrer, Jr. (at far right). The couple with hats switched are unknown, and the other men are believed to be Henry Dohrer (in vest) and Bill Putnam. Bill Dohrer ran the Eagle Hotel from the mid-1920s to the 1940s. Prior to that, the Seneca Falls native operated the Ovid Hotel, now Community Bank.

HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED...

While times were certainly different hundreds of years ago, they were still very different only 55 years ago. The following items were taken from “Your Household Guide,” a 1951 booklet of helpful tips sponsored by the North Hector No. 318 Grange chapter at Valois, NY. It was clearly designed for the woman of the house, with some directions for children’s manners included. Display ads for a number of Lodi businesses also appeared. (courtesy of Bill Gates)

            – “When men’s shirts wear out across the shoulders, cut out the whole back and sew in bottom side up.”

 

MODEL SHEEP – These larger-than-life Cotswold Sheep are a colored illustration featured in “The Illustrated Stock Doctor & Live Stock Encyclopaedia,” by J.R. Manning, M.D., V.S., circa 1880.                                                                                                                                

A Feature Interview with Kari Lusk

HOOKED ON SHEEP, HISTORY & LODI

By Paulette Likoudis

Visiting the secluded Traphagen Road log cabin that is, for now, the home of Bill and Kari Lusk was, in some ways, like taking a step back to Lodi’s pioneer days. There is no passing traffic, and it is very quiet there. The remnants of stone foundations in nearby woods are evidence of what was once a neighborhood with its own post office on Lodi Center Road.

Winter had arrived late, delivering its first blanket of snow to the Lusks’ Sheepish Grin Farm in mid-January. Fifteen sheep wearing heavy fleeces were cozy and warm on a thick bed of grass hay in the barn. Although it looked like winter, spring lambs were due.

1893 SPRING FASHION FOR BOYS – These sailor suits for boys were among spring and summer clothing for men, women and children, offered by the John Wanamaker Company on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. The suits were priced from 2.75 to 4.50 in the 1893 mail order catalogue, which also pictured bone corsets, real tortoise shell hair combs, hearing aids, lace, trunks, glass, china, silverware, rattan furniture, scissors, baskets, refrigerators, dog collars and horse harness, toys, sporting goods and clothing patterns.