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Nick’s at Fonda Avenue and Chestnut, once Bob & Dan’s, closed shortly before The Neptune.

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Duke’s Diner on Oneida Street represented the diner tradition on the city’s West End.

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Tammy Christman, Oneonta, shows off a fun, flirty bridal gown at the 2013 Foothills Wedding Expo.

By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA

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e’ll always have the diner,” says Daniel Stern in Barry Levinson’s 1982’s film “Diner.” Not so, it turns out. In Manning’s Oneonta Directory for 1949, a halfdozen diners were listed. Today, the city, arguably, has none, with the closing of The Neptune at midnight, Dec. 28, and the “for sale” sign at Nick’s Laskaris’, now the History Cen- on Chestnut Street, (workter, 183 Main, had chrome ers from the stools and a D&H yards counter, diner would walk up features. Fonda Avenue to lunch there). Though many restaurants, lunch counters and grills lay claim to the diner moniker, the modern definition of a “true” diner, as defined by Randy Garbin, publisher of Roadside Online, is a pre-fabricated building, Please See DINERS, B5

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Linda Burgher, above, is proprietor of Soda Jerks on outer Chestnut Street, a tribute to the diner tradition. At right, Lily Karabinis converted the former Corfu Diner, Main and Chestnut, into Simply Thai, but preserved some of the chrome accoutrements.

New Tradition: Christmas Tree Bonfire At Ommegang By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

igger isn’t always better. “This year, we got a 22-foot Christmas tree,” said John Tuchowski, Brewery Ommegang event coordinator. “It did not work. It took us four hours to put up, and we had it up at our St. Nikolas event, within 15 minutes, it had tipped over. We figured we could spend another hour getting it back up, or we could put it in the fire and have Christmas next year.” Thus, a tradition was born,

and Ommegang invited people to bring their own trees to create a post-Christmas bonfire Saturday, Jan. 4. “We’ll burn some trees, drink some beer, exchange some gifts,” said assistant event coordinator Steve Hamilton, Oneonta. “It’s a nice way to say goodbye to 2013, ring in 2014.” Those who brought trees were given an Ommegang gift – a piece of soon-to-be-retired glassware, good for a free beer at the bar. Jan and Mike Stevens, Rome, weren’t ready to take down their own tree, so they brought their neighbor’s instead. “It was out on the curb, so we stole it!” Please See BONFIRE, B5

PIZZA & POTTERY: Make and glaze bowls for the CANO Chili Bowl. BYOB optional, snacks and pizza provided. 6-9 p.m., Friday, Jan. 10, Carriage House, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 435-8718, www.canoneonta.com FREE FILM: Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift star in “A Place in the Sun” (NR), a prelude to Glimmerglass Festival’s production of “An American Tragedy.” Part of the Cabin Fever Film Series. 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 10, Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (888) 547-1400. PIANO MAN: Roger Peltzman plays solo piano as part of the Cooperstown Concert Series. 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11, The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, tickets, (607) 5471812. START YOUR GARDEN: It may be chilly out now, but it’s not too early to start planning your spring garden with the “Design For Your Home Garden” workshop taught by Otsego County Master Gardeners. $5, register by Jan. 9. 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, registration, (607) 547-2536, ext. 0.

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Tom Brieten, Fly Creek, hoists his family’s Christmas tree onto the Ommegang bonfire.

BEER DINNER: Chef Evan Brown presents his first five-course “Great Beer Deserves Great Food” dinner of endive soup, beet salad, potato salad, and a bacon mousse-stuffed rabbit loin. Tickets, $75. 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11, Brewery Ommegang, 656 County Highway 33, Cooperstown. Info, tickets, John Tuchowski, 544 1800, ext. 813.

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Oneonta, One-Time Diner Town, Bereft NO DINER, From B1 often designed like a railroad dining car, with counter service and chrome aplenty. “The diner concept is at its most popular,” he said. “But the architectural form is going away.” Under that definition, The Neptune was Oneonta’s last “true” diner, built in 1996 by Kullman Building Corp., which also designed many of the chrome-style diners that New Jersey is known for. Kullman went out of business in 2011, another domino in the fall of the American diner. But that doesn’t mean that the diner heart has gone out of restaurants forever. “There’s a cultural appreciation for nostalgia that diners have,” said Daniel Zulka, director and founder of the now-defunct American Diner Museum. “They represent comfort zones for people.” The historians may have their definition, but ask any veteran of city life which eateries were diners, and you’ll get a lively conversation going. Going over the list in the 1949 directory, Tony Mongillo, who will turn 90 on the 26th, applied the term to Bill’s on Broad Street, George’s Lunch on Main, Nick’s, and the Oneonta Diner and West End Diner. Alex Shields, raised in Oneonta in the ’40s, added Al’s Lunch, 28 Chestnut, Bob’s, 279 Chestnut, Buster’s Lunch, 42 Main, and Duke’s, 48 Chestnut, to that list. He also remembers Ronnie’s Diner on River Street. Mike Halpin, who attended Oneonta High on Academy Street in the 1960s, recalls that today’s Boudreaux & Thibodeau and Chop Choice, side by side on Main Street, were two parts of The Diana. The Boudreaux side was a full-service restaurant, complete with bar; the Chop Choice side was a diner. “The diner was where we all hung out,” Halpin recalled. “When the high school was on Academy Street, the athletes went from 6 a.m. to noon, then we had to wait around until 3 p.m. for practice, so we’d walk over to the diners, eat hamburgers and drink sodas.” For Linda Burgher, owner

New Tradition: Send Christmas Trees On Way BONFIRE/From B1 In all, 10 trees were burned in the pit, along with some garland and pallets to keep the fire going. “I love the smell of pine,” said Hamilton. “I think it’s got a good scent.” But not all the gifts were as good as an Ommegang glass. The event also featured a “Worst Gift Exchange,” where bad gifts could be exchanged for other people’s bad gifts. “Inevitably, you get something that’s well intentioned, but useless,” said Hamilton. “I got a three-pack of really poorly scented candles, and I’m just not a scented candle guy.” Among the treasures were a “Where’s Waldo” calendar, a two-pack of grill lighters, a Justin Bieber alarm clock, bunny slippers and a pink puffball hat. Ommegang employees even shared their own worst gift stories. “I opened up my stocking and my dad had gotten me plus-sized underwear,” said Alexa Mason, Oneonta, a waitress in the café. “It was so embarrassing.” “I got five hot chocolate sets this year,” said Jason Lopez, Mt. Vision, who works in the gift shop. “Now I have way too many mugs.” A “worst gift” prize – a four pack of Adoration Winter Ale – was given for the most classic of tacky Christmas gifts, a store-bought fruitcake. “The beer will help them through fruitcake withdrawl,” joked Tuchowski. But don’t take those tacky gifts to Salvation Army just yet – Hamilton says they plan to host the event again next year.

of Soda Jerks at Action Lube on outer Chestnut, opening her ‘50s-style restaurant in July 2012 was an homage to Oneonta’s diner culture. “My parents, Mickey and Jo Cyzeski, owned the West End Diner,” she said. “My dad made the best chili, and Hartwick used to send people down with their crock pots to take it back up to their employees.” Mom Jo still comes down to help with the baking, and Soda Jerks still serves oldfashioned, homemade food. “We grind our own hamburger,” said Burgher. “We make our own sodas. That’s the way a diner should be.” In the 1949 city directory, there were listings for the

Oneonta and the West End Diners, as well as the Duke, which opened in 1945 and closed in 2005, The Corfu, on the corner of Main and Chestnut, closed in 2010 and reopened as Simply Thai. Nick’s diner, known in the 1920s as Bob & Dan’s Restaurant, was most recently owned by Florentino Sarno, who put the diner up for sale a month ago, citing declining health. “Nick’s was open really late,” said Kathy Meeker, Oneonta. “There was no McDonald’s, so we went downtown after watching ‘Saturday Night Live’ and after we went downtown, we’d go to Nick’s for a hamburger at 2 a.m.”

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But even if the food wasn’t very good, the diner was still where you went. “I remember my friend getting a hamburger that had been sitting out so long, it had white puddles of grease on it,” said Halpin. “He called over the waitress, and he said, ‘This hamburger’s cold – the Coke’s warm, though’!” Diners started out in the late 1800s much like modern-day food trucks, serving workers, especially those on the third shift at mills and the railroad, from carts. When restaurants saw them cutting into their business, many were forced to buy small parcels of land to operate on. Owners began building more permanent buildings, and builders saw a market in making pre-fabricated structures. By the Depression,

the buildings took on the look of train dining cars and the “diner” moniker stuck. “It was a marketing gimmick,” said Garbin. Post-World War II, the chrome-plated look that most people associate with a diner became popular, and by the late 1960s, the transportation motif was out, bringing in a whole range of styles. “Greek, colonial, early American, it was a mishmash of styles,” said Garbin. Inspired by shows like “Happy Days,” and nostalgic movies like “Grease” and “American Graffiti,” the retro-look diner, complete with chrome siding and photos of Elvis and Marilyn Monroe, had a rebirth in the late 80s and early 90s. “People wanted them to look like diners again,” said Garbin.

Owning a diner was once a major part of the American dream, said Garbin. “You were an immigrant, you came over and worked in your uncle’s diner as a busboy, saved your pennies and bought your own little diner,” he said. “Kids don’t want to do that anymore. They want to go to college, become doctors or lawyers.” It’s much like Neptune owner Paul Karabinis’ story: He started as a dishwasher at a Newburgh diner in 1966 and bought his first, the Old King’s Diner in Saugerties, in 1973. He ran The Neptune for 23 years until its closing. “Everyone has a diner story,” said Zulka. “They’re extended communities, and when they go out of a community, they leave a psychological hole.”

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Grace Annamay Carlsen Lettis, 85; Prized Gardens Became Works of Art COOPERSTOWN – Grace Annamay Carlsen Lettis, 85, whose gardens were the subject of many paintings and photographs, passed away Sunday afternoon, Jan. 5, 2014, at Albany Medical Center. Born May 13, 1928, in Lindenhurst on Long Island, Grace was the fourth child of Ole Gustove and Anna Nicole Nelson Carlsen. Both her parents had immigrated from Norway in the early part of the 20th century. When she was a teenager, Grace’s family moved to Brooklyn where she attended Washington Irving High School. After World War II the family moved to Oneonta where she worked as a telephone operator and later at Bresee’s Department Store. It was during this time that she met her future husband, Donald Robert (Bob) Lettis. They were married in Oneonta in 1947 and in 1950 they moved to Worcester where Bob taught school. In 1956, Bob’s profession took the family to Cooperstown. While living in Cooperstown, Grace was employed at the Smart Shop

and Nick Sterling’s Ski Shop, both in Cooperstown, and Konstanty’s Ski Shop in Oneonta. In 1964, the family moved to New Jersey, where Grace served as a long-distance operator while her husband did graduate work at Pratt Institute in New York City. In 1966 the family moved to Hingham, Mass., where they lived for 36 years. While in Massachusetts, Grace received her bachelor’s from the University of Massachusetts in Boston and her master’s in social work from Simmons College. She became a licensed social worker and worked at the South Shore Mental Health Clinic in Quincy; she was with the Hingham Visiting Nurses Association when she retired in 1987. Her greatest pleasure were her gardens. She had three at “Shipcote,” the Lettises’ historic home on Ship Street in Hingham. The most beloved was a rose garden she maintained along the white picket fence; passersby would photographer the roses, and artists would set up their easels and paint them. She was a long-time

member of The First Parish Church in Hingham, Unitarian Universalist (“Old Ship Church”). Locally, she was a member of the Women’s Club of Cooperstown. Grace leaves her husband of 66 years, Bob Lettis of Cooperstown; three children, Charlotte Richardson and her husband Kirk of Portland, Ore.; Paula Bedford and her husband Jim of Northville, Mich., and Daniel Lettis of Clayton, N.M.; six grandchildren, Briget Bent, Nicole Meyer, Jacob Meyer, Daniel Meyer, Sam Richardson and Henry Richardson; three greatgrandchildren, Tanner Bent, Jillian Bent and Katelyn Torres; and one niece, Carol Kruitz and her husband Frank. She was predeceased by her parents; two sisters, Thelma Fryberg and her husband Ernest and Maude Soltys and her husband Walter; and one brother, Norman Carlsen and his wife Jean. Also, her dear friend and mother-in-law, Charlotte Hall Lettis. Calling hours are 2-4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at

Elizabeth A. Crean, 77; Survived By Four Children

ONEONTA – Elizabeth A. Crean, 77, a former 4 p.m., with the Rev. Elsie secretary for the New York Armstrong Rhodes, pastor, City Police Chaplain, passed First Presbyterian Church, away on Thursday, Jan. 2, officiating. 2014, at the Fox Nursing All are welcome at a reHome. ception immediately followShe is survived by her ing at the Cooperstown Art children, Michael, WilAssociation, 22 Main St. liam and Daniel Crean and Burial will be at a later Jacqueline Vitacco; 12 date in the Lettis Family grandchildren; a brother, Plot in Lakewood Cemetery. James Coghlan; her daughMemorial gifts may be ters-in-law, Debra, Diana made to The Charlotte Hall and MaryAnn Crean; and a Lettis Nursing Scholarship son-in-law, William Vitacco. Fund, c/o Cooperstown Friends may call from 6 Central School District, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown, NY 13326, or to The Friendship Fund for The Friends of The Old Ship Meeting House, 55 Main St., Hingham, MA 02043. Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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Grace Annamay Carlsen Lettis, 85; Prized Gardens Became Works of Art COOPERSTOWN – Grace Annamay Carlsen Lettis, 85, whose gardens were the subject of paintings and photographs, passed away Sunday afternoon, Jan. 5, 2014, at Albany Medical Center. Born May 13, 1928, in Lindenhurst on Long Island, Grace was the fourth child of Ole Gustove and Anna Nicole Nelson Carlsen. Both her parents had immigrated from Norway in the early part of the 20th century. When she was a teenager, Grace’s family moved to Brooklyn where she attended Washington Irving High School. After World War II the family moved to Oneonta where she worked as a telephone operator and later at Bresee’s. It was during this time that she met her future husband, Donald Robert (Bob) Lettis. They were married in Oneonta in 1947 and in 1950 they moved to Worcester where Bob taught school. In 1956, Bob’s profession took the family to Cooperstown. While living in Cooperstown, Grace was employed at the Smart Shop

She was a long-time member of The First Parish Church in Hingham, Unitarian Universalist (“Old Ship Church”). Locally, she was a member of the Women’s Club of Cooperstown. Grace leaves her husband of 66 years, Bob Lettis of Cooperstown; three children, Charlotte Richardson and her husband Kirk of Portland, Ore.; Paula Bedford and her husband Jim of Northville, Mich., and Daniel Lettis of Clayton, N.M.; six grandchildren, Briget Bent, Nicole Meyer, Jacob Meyer, Daniel Meyer, Sam Richardson and Henry Richardson; three greatgrandchildren, Tanner Bent, Jillian Bent and Katelyn Torres; and one niece, Carol Kruitz and her husband Frank. She was predeceased by her parents; two sisters, Thelma Fryberg and her husband Ernest and Maude Soltys and her husband Walter; and one brother, Norman Carlsen and his wife Jean. Also, her dear friend and mother-in-law, Charlotte Hall Lettis. Calling hours are 2-4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, at the Connell, Dow & Deysen-

COOPERSTOWN – John H. “Jack” Weber, Jr., 84, who was active at roth Funeral Home. The The Farmers’ Museum funeral service will be at and as a Bassett Hospital 4 p.m., with the Rev. Elsie volunteer after retiring Armstrong Rhodes, pastor, to Cooperstown in 1992, First Presbyterian Church, passed away Friday evening, officiating. Jan. 3, 2014, at his home. All are welcome at a reBorn Nov. 18, 1929, in ception immediately followLong Island City, he was ing at the Cooperstown Art the son of John Henry and Association, 22 Main St. Eleanor (Gernon) Weber. Burial will be at a later Survivors include one date in the Lettis Family son, Ronald J. Weber, and Plot in Lakewood Cemetery. his wife, Arlene, of New Memorial gifts may be Paltz; two daughters, Nancy made to The Charlotte Hall Lettis Nursing Scholarship Fund, c/o Cooperstown Central School District, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown, NY 13326, or to The Friendship Fund for The Friends of The Old Ship Meeting House, 55 Main St., Hingham, MA 02043. Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Tallman and her husband, Dennis, of Fly Creek, and Christine A. Soell and her husband, Julian, of Allendale, N.J.; and eight grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered in memory of Jack at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church, with Father John P. Rosson, pastor, presiding. Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow and Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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HARTWICK – Peter and enthusiastically emMorgan Johngren, the noted braced digital photography photographer and retired and printing with Photoshop Bassett Hospital psychiafrom its beginnings. He trist, died Saturday, Jan. studied photography with 4, at his home surrounded George Lepp, Gary Randorf by his family following a and Carl Heilman II, among lengthy illness. He would others, and with the Rocky have been 73 on Mountain School Jan. 18. of Photography and Peter was born John Radigan’s Adin Brockton, Mass., irondack Photography in 1941, the first Institute. child of Alton Elof Peter’s nature phoJohngren and Ruth tographs have been Bonhotal Morgan. shown in exhibits Peter Johngren’s “In the Dawn’s Early Light” won He attended Brockat the Cooperstown the award for Best Adirondack Photograph in Old ton public schools Peter M. Art Association, the Forge in 2006. and graduated from Johngren Central New York Saratoga Springs and Inlet. With his wife Jane, a potTufts with a bachCommunity Arts His image, “In the Dawn’s ter and writer, he formed elor of science in 1963. Council at The Stanley in Early Light,” won the award Heatherspray Studio, and He graduated from Albany Utica, The Smithy-Pioneer for Best Adirondack Photoalso enjoyed producing Medical College in 1967 Gallery in Cooperstown, graph in Old Forge in 2006. limited editions of books of and finished his psychiatric Upper Catskill Community In addition, Peter made a his photographs. residency at the Cleveland Council of the Arts (now specialty of photographing One of the books docuClinic in 1971. CANO) in Oneonta, the Arts the work of other artists, mented his building of In 1971-73 during the Guild of Old Forge (now including folk painter Ed “Winslow,” a wooden Vietnam War, he was a View), Adirondack Lakes Johnson and sculptor Walter sailboat reminiscent of the major in the Army MediCenter for the Arts in Blue Dusenbery, among others, boats he had enjoyed in his cal Corps at Madigan Army Mountain Lake, and the and worked extensively youth on Cape Cod, a projMedical Center, Fort Lewis, Yager Museum at Hartwick with Scottie Baker of Natura ect he decided to take on to Wash. He was an attending College. He also parProductions for many years. counter the negative effects psychiatrist in Bassett’s inticipated in arts festivals in patient unit from July 1973 to 1997. He continued as a consulting psychiatrist until his full retirement in 2002. While still in medical school, Peter married Jane Ann Schaefer, whom he had met at Tufts in 1962, in Westport, Conn. His two children, Emily Ruth Proud To be Oneonta’s Only Johngren Ward and Michael Peter Johngren, were born during his residency in Cleveland. ~ 51 Dietz Street, Oneonta 607-432-1511 ~ An amateur photographer since the eighth grade, when www.lhpfuneralhome.com he began developing and “Our family is committed to providing you with a personal as well as printing his own black-andprofessional level of service, and still maintain affordability” white images, Peter experi-John & Kathleen Pietrobono mented with color printing

of chemotherapy. He finished the boat in May 2009, and was able to sail it on Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks for three summers. An outdoor enthusiast since childhood, Peter enjoyed sailing, downhill skiing, hiking, backpacking and canoeing, but he was also a computer geek, stereo buff, movie aficionado, and a fan of all kinds of music, which he loved hearing in live performance and on his own sound system. He was an early fan of Justin Bieber and followed the young singer on Twitter using the handle “Senior Biebs.” He even received a shout-out from Justin after a newspaper article in Canada profiled Peter’s interest and its therapeutic impact on his illness. Peter is survived by his wife and best friend, Jane, of 48 ½ years; his children Emily Ward and her hus-

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