In the interest of truth I must comment on the editorial in today’s Globe Gazette. It references the empty corner at Second and North Federal which has stood empty for several years.
These are the facts; It was never the site of the Green Mill resturant. That resturant was located South of the corner; the corner was occupied for close to forty years by the Singer Sewing Machine Company until they closed their doors. There was a dry cleaner in the building immediately South of the sewing machine store which the Green mill eventually consumed into their resturant. Further South of the Green Mill stood Boomhower’s Hardware.
I leased the sewing machine store in the middle sixties and moved my gallery into it. The gallery was called, European Fine Arts. A short while later I bought the property from its long time owner, Mr. Roy Harris. Mr. Harris was close to 98 or 99 years old at the time and told me he was born upstairs. His father was a pharmacist and lived over the store. When I sold my business to John Beck and Dave Nelson, they bought the building from me as well.
Peter Children
You are correct about the location of the Green Mill and the other businesses located in that block. My wife and I rented one of the apartments there when we were first married in 1962. A much simpler time with a great resturant. We used to have a lot of resurants around that were very good. Yes-most of them were owned by the Greeks but they were mostly good people. I grew up with a lot of them and then worked for some of them when I was a teenager and also later in life. I have some good mempries of the old Town House resturant.
Kemble’s flowers was right South of the Green Mill, then the hardware store, then Damon’s.
I remember that intersting art gallery. A shame there aren’t any like that left.
In the interest of truth I must comment on…
Isn’t that your justification for every bit of poo you fling on the walls around here? 😀