spent this morning in the Town Formerly known as Uniontown

jeff of pa · Jul 22, 2012

with DJM & Bruce

the Carnival was setting up outside the park, so we had to stay north of the fence

my gas rebate
37 Cents

unknown familar looking junque

Trache

Thimble

1939 wheat that looks hardly used

and a 1902 Barber that looks like it was used for 110 years :laughing7:

leprechaun · Jul 22, 2012

Jeff that place looks like a gold mine. :occasion14:

ticm · Jul 22, 2012

Looks like staying south of the fence paid off. Is that thimble silver? Still a nice find either way.

jeff of pa · Jul 22, 2012

ticm said:
Looks like staying south of the fence paid off. Is that thimble silver? Still a nice find either way.

no it's definitely an aluminum thimble

texjim · Jul 22, 2012

A Barber in any shape is a good day... nice job

nov2101 · Jul 22, 2012

on barber Wow......

Gunrunner61 · Jul 22, 2012

Pound it Jeff!! No telling what's going to come outta there! ..........HH.... :icon_thumleft:

TommNJ · Jul 22, 2012

texjim said:
A Barber in any shape is a good day... nice job

I agree, nice wheat back and thimble too, congrats!

TommNJ

Cool Hand Fluke · Jul 22, 2012

Looks like a really neat place to hunt. Way to go on the barber dime! :thumbsup:

jeff of pa · Jul 22, 2012

Thanks All !

DaleGM · Jul 22, 2012

site looks like you stepped back in time to the good ol days :sunny:

nice hit on the old silver Jeff

GaRebel1861 · Jul 22, 2012

The dime alone would have made my day!

DKinPA · Jul 22, 2012

Congrats on the silver!!

Dave

stewielouie · Jul 22, 2012

Great silver!

jeff of pa · Jul 22, 2012

DaleGM said:
site looks like you stepped back in time to the good ol days
nice hit on the old silver Jeff

I really like this birds eye View

This Park is actually the 3rd Park
in town.

there were Older parks. the first one that dates back to the mid 1800's
is under corn right now

also this painting created from a photo shows the Meeting House, also under corn at the moment

This one also created from a photo, from the description, has me excited as I Believe this was next
to My Great aunts house. she unfortunately died at the age of 102 this year.

Once back in about 1938 as we were playing "ball"in the Rothermels School yard,
someone made a good hit and sent the ball flying along the third- baseline into
the left field.　 Our "ball diamond", though was skewed and left field extended
into the Hebe-to-Klingerstown public road.　 It so happened that just as the ball
hit the berm of the road and bounced, Allen Rothermel came driving by with his
old International farm truck, with the side curtains rolled up.　 As was his habit,
he was going along at only about 15 mph hunched over the steering wheel steering
with his forearms, and not paying much attention to us playing in the schoolyard.
　
　　　 The ball bounced into the truck, then made a few more bounces, but it stayed in
the truck and was carried away.　 Several children immediately started running
after the truck shouting, "Stop! Stop!"Finally as the truck was passsing
Andy Schwalm's barn, Millard Boyer who was also riding in the truck, heard
the shouting and asked Allen to stop.　 Millard then got the ball and threw it back.
Then the children got into an argument about about how that "home run"should be
scored.　 I don't remember how it ended.Written by Dr. John A. Romberger