[Chat] Fwd: [northerncommunitycouncil] Help us continue to make history this weekend in Waverly

[Stephen J Gewirtz]

On 4/13/2010 10:51 AM, JOSEPH STEWART wrote:
>
> From an old Sunday Sun article about Waverly Remembered
> by Viola Mussetter Dammann:
>
> In those days before air conditioning, vaudeville and live theater
> houses closed in the summer. so early one summer Harry Kahn, the
> enterprising Waverly Theater manager, developed what might have been the
> forerunner of the drive-in movie.
>
> His open-air theater was a big closed-in lot behind the regular
> theater. We paid at the boxoffice, as usual, then walked through the
> theater, out the back door, and sat on wooden folding chairs there.
>
> The piana player was out there, too, with his accompanying music -
> "Hearts and Flowers" for the sad-sweet dialogue, the overture from
> "William Tell" for the hero riding at full gallop to the rescue.
>
> We felt our neighborhood had everything. Certainly one of its most
> pleasant spots was the Sweet Shop at the corner of 33rd street and
> University parkway. The place was operated by three sisters. They sold
> ice cream and homemade pasteries.
>
> Their huge, delicious cupcakes cost a nickel, an exorbitant price
> then. Even so, unless you ordered in advance, you stood a good chance of
> walking out empty handed.
>
> These genteel sisters fairly radiated courtesy as they tended
> customers, which gave their establishment an added aura of elegance.
> Such gentility - so painfully rare these days - was contagious.
>
> Without being told, children automatically assumed their best
> behavior whdn they entered the shop.
>
> I left the neighborhood in the mid-1930's. The course of my life
> has taken me into other pleasant communities, but when I think of home,
> I still think of Waverly.
>
> *BE PART OF WAVERLY HISTORY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 17 *
>
> Join 14th District City Councilperson Mary Pat Clarke, City
> Council President Jack Young, Police Commssioner Bealefeld, Fire Chief
> Clack,
> community residents, merchants and shoppers outside Darker Than Blue,
> 3033 Greenmount Ave. at 2:00 pm this Saturday, Apr. 17th.
>
> We will promote this historic convenient commercial corridor
> showing neighborhood and city support for its safety and vitality
> by walking up one end of Greenmount Avenue and down the other between
> 35th & 29th, ending at 31st outside old Waverly Town Hall.
>
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