Bound Volumes, Hometown History
January 18, 2024
90 YEARS AGO
Prices at Terpening’s Grocery & Market—Phone 1250—Free Deliveries: Fresh killed chickens, 23 cents lb.; 2 lbs. liver, 25 cents; Homemade veal loaf, 25 cents lb.; Beef roast, 10 cents and 18 cents lb.; Veal chops, 15 cents lb.; Breast of veal, 8 cents lb.; 2 cans peas or succotash, 29 cents; 2 pounds confectionary sugar, 15 cents; 4 cans baked beans, 25 cents; Fresh coffee, 21 cents lb.; 3 bottles olives, 29 cents; 2 large cans peaches, 29 cents; 2 cans raspberries, 35 cents, 2 dozen juicy oranges, 49 cents; 1 dozen grapefruit, 49 cents; 10 lbs. apples, 49 cents; 7 lbs. turnips, 25 cents; 2 pounds butter, 47 cents.
January 1934
70 YEARS AGO
Oneonta’s new police photographic laboratory made its debut in City Court yesterday as Judge John L. Van Woert fined Earl Bockus $100 when Bockus changed his plea to guilty to a charge of third degree assault. Bockus had been accused of grievous injury to his wife Helen on New Year’s Eve at 10 Birch Street. Judge Van Woert scanned photographs of the injuries—the first photos used in court since the photo lab was instituted. Bockus was also sentenced to a year in the Otsego County Jail but Judge Van Woert suspended that part of the sentence.
January 1954
50 YEARS AGO
Members of the Oneonta High School boys’ gymnastics team are: Mark Wilcox, Bob Rowley, Bruce Reynolds, Tim Hawkins, Dave Cannistra, Fred Ploutz, Pat Hart, Dave Kelsey, Tim Clapp, Bob Clapp, Len Stimpson, Mark Friery, Bob Speranzi, Roy Sandt, Doug Marr, Tim Kearney, Mark Sandt, Larry Fink, Pat Couden, Dennis Kearney, Andy Eddins, Steve Johnson, and Bill Renwick. The coach is Jerry Kaiser; student managers are Eric Rude and Leroy House.
January 1974
40 YEARS AGO
The parent aide program of the Otsego County Council on Child Abuse and Neglect provides caring, dependable, non-judgmental friends to parents who either have or are in danger of abusing their children. Their purpose is to keep the family unit together as an alternative to placing children in foster care. The parent aides work in coordination with the Child Protective Services Unit of the Department of Social Services. “No one wants to abuse or neglect their children,” said Diana Hulbert, parent aide coordinator for the last three years. “We all let life overwhelm us, sometimes. Some of us have a support system—family or friends—to whom we can go. Some people have no one to whom they can turn. That is where a parent aide can help.”
January 1984
20 YEARS AGO
“Rubber Soul” will appear at the Country Rock Café on State Highway 23 starting tonight. The group was organized last with the intent of becoming a Beatles cover band. However, after being asked several times to expand its repertoire and to play some summer parties, the group decided to venture into other musical genres. Rubber Soul’s song list includes covers from oldies, classic rock, current rock, blues, soul, country and the Beatles. The four singing core members of the group are Marc Spaziani of Oneonta on bass, John Ellis of Albany on lead guitar, Harry Bedford of Walton on drums and Ed Gates of Oneonta on keyboards.
The Snark and Bandersnatch Players will open the 2004 season with George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” over the weekend on Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Telecenter building on Main Street. The cast of this anti-heroic comedy about war includes Sandee Fleisher, David Hutchison, Norma Hutman, Stephen Markuson, L. Jean Palmer Moloney and Gary E. Stevens.
January 2004
