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son said. “I started working the front desk at the Park Hotel and that’s when you had a switch board and had to pull all those different plugs. If you pulled the wrong one then you cut someone off.” Her mother Thirza Margaret Mason also worked at the Park Hotel at that time as a grill cook. “She made the best cinnamon rolls,” Mary said. “They were always sold out in the mornings.” Her mother started at the Park Hotel in 1967 after Bill Bachart opened it back up. “They had a top notch kitchen and mom loved working there and for Bill,” Mary said. She also remembered her fellow employees Elmer Poorman, Ann Walker, Judy Rose, Irene Roof and Allen Laird. “Elmer used to smoke a cigarette while he was cooking and mom swore he had to get ashes in the food,” Mary said. Another memory she had of her mother’s co-workers involved a slight mishap. “There was a very heavy swinging door between the KITCHEN Mary Mason’s mother, Thirza Margaret Mason, worked in the kitchen at the Park Hotel and Mary later also worked there as a switch board operator kitchen and dining room and my mother pushed the door and a waitress. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED TO THE BEACON open from the kitchen and turned to come back through swinging her right hand behind her and the door caught her COSHOCTON – Mary Mason’s introduction to the working finger and cut it off. Bonnie Shaffer found her finger and put world started at the Park Hotel. it in ice and ER put it back on and she could use it.” “When I was 20 my mom decided I needed a job,” MaOne Sunday morning at work, Mary quickly learned that she also had the skills to be a waitress at the Park Hotel. Serving you Since 1974 “The dining area was packed and no waitress showed up,” she said. “Elmer said he could cook, but he couldn’t APPOINTMENTS & cook and serve so I took over taking people’s orders and serving. After that Bill said I could be a waitress.” WALK-INS WELCOME! Mary had a lot of respect for Bachart and feels he taught her to make every step she takes count. “He laid the foundation for how I worked,” she said. “He was a big tall guy and scared me to death. Everything I did, it was like I had a big bear telling me what to do.” Mary was fascinated by the atmosphere of the Park HoChristi Hondel, Barber • 740-622-8991 tel. 712 Pine St. • Coshocton SEE ‘PARK HOTEL’ ON PAGE 3-B
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said. “It’s really sad that it’s gone now because Coshocton has nothing of that quality. Bill taught me to be a very good worker. I feel the Park Hotel and Bill gave me a work ethic that I use even today.” To learn even more about the Park Hotel, see pages 15 and 16. JOSIE@COSHOCTONCOUNTYBEACON.COM
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“Even for today it was a place that had culture and class,” she said. “It was the place to go on Friday and Saturday evenings.” There was live music, Bachart had displays of art that was mostly abstract and the food was amazing, especially the cheesecake. “I had never had cheesecake before and Bill ordered it in from New York,” Mary said. “I loved it and ate plenty of it while I worked there.” Today, Mary still has a piece of the Park Hotel, a clock on display there that was used for advertising local businesses. “It was at Big Wheel in Coshocton when they were closing and I asked if they’d sell it to me,” Mary said. “This was special and amazing advertising at that time.” One of the signs that flip on the clock says it shows 12 messages every minute. One was for the Coshocton Grain Company and another was for Main Taxi Radio Dispatch and there was another that said the hub of activity in Coshocton was the Park Hotel. “It (the Park Hotel) was a very special place and a gift to Coshocton when Bill opened it back up in the 60s,” Mary
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• The first libraries in Coshocton were in private homes until the 1870s, when the Coshocton Library Association formed in 1872. Membership fees of $5 were charged for a gentleman and $3 for a lady to use the collection of 200 books and 20 periodicals housed on Main Street near the Fifth Street railroad depot. • A group of ladies called the Blue Stocking Club raised money to buy a collection of books by offering lecture courses. Their books were shelved in the third story of the Shaw Building and were available to club members and their friends. When some lecturers by controversial speakers provoked disfavor, the books became part of a new collection operation by the WCTU and the YMCA located in the Lee Building on Main Street. In 1895, the city library was relocated to the Nichols Building and Mary E. Skinner was appointed the librarian from 1891 to 1898. • The Coshocton Free School Library Association, located on the corner of Main and Fourth Streets, was formed in 1898 and supported by the board of education, and several women’s clubs. John S. Beall was appointed librarian in 1898 and served until 1899. • Mr. Joseph Love was the librarian from 1899 to 1915. He rebound worn books himself to save the library money and catalogued the collection using the Dewey Decimal System. The budget was $1,200 per year. In 1903 the library had a collection of about 4,000 books. • The president of the Coshocton Free School Library Association, Frank E. Pomerene, approached Andrew Carnegie about giving Coshocton a library building. After much discussion, the lot at the corner of Chestnut and Fourth streets was purchased for the project for $2,400. • Mr. Carnegie gave $15,000 to build the Carnegie Library and an additional $2,000 to furnish it when his representative was so pleased with the building. Coshocton’s library was the 1,000th library built with funding from Andrew Carnegie. The new Carnegie Library was dedicated on May 6, 1904. The books and equipment of the Free School Library Association were turned over to the new library.
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Thompson also remembers that haunted house. “The library didn’t own the building anymore by then,” she said. “I think the city had the building, but I do remember that haunted house was absolutely terrifying. I don’t think I’ve ever done one after that.” The Carnegie Library property is now owned by William Deadman and Sycks, who is the Coshocton County Auditor, said the current market value on the property is $134,200. Thompson said at one point there were plans to turn the Carnegie Library into city hall and municipal court. “I saw the blue prints that went as far as to identify where the court rooms would go,” she said. “I think the city bought it for around $30,000 in 1981, but then they decided to use the old Chestnut School for city hall and municipal court and sold the library.” The story she heard was that the current owner was going to renovate the Carnegie Library and turn it into office spaces. However, for a while it fell into disrepair and Thompson said someone approached the Coshocton County Commissioners, which she was one of at the time, and asked them to do something about the state of the building. “Mr. Deadman wasn’t interested in selling it,” she said. “We even checked into eminent domain, but couldn’t use it. We threw up our hands because there was nothing we could do.”
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Tim echoed Emmons thoughts. “Not everyone is like you,” he said. “There is a broad spectrum of personality types and you have to learn to work with people who have different personalities than you.” Emmons, Vance and Darner were impressed with the diverse group of people that were chosen to be in their class. “They did an outstanding job with that and have every year since,” Darner said. Elliott gave Thomas the credit for accomplishing that. “He was very community orientated and wanted to have people in the class that would go on from it and apply their experience,” Elliott said. Darner said Elliott did a wonderful job getting them excited about the community and Emmons said he was awesome. “He really made it happen,” Emmons said. “If it wasn’t for year one, I don’t think there would have been a two, three or four. Jim got it started on the right foot.” Vance said of the 20 people that were in the class, 11 or 12 of them are still in the community. Many are retired, but they are still active with civic and community minded organizations. “If it wasn’t for the knowledge I gained from Leadership, I don’t think I would have had the confidence to have been a Rotary president,” Emmons said.
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Christine Sycks, county auditor, lived in one of those cottages with her family from 1968 – 1971 and has a lot of good memories from growing up by the lake. “It was a lot of fun living there as kids,” said Sycks. “It was a great place to grow up. You could go out the front door and fish or swim. A whole bunch of kids lived up the towpath, so we’d roller blade up and down the towpath. We’d roller blade on one of the old concrete blocks and flip flop over the railing until the lady who lived there made us stop.” She remembers going trick or treating up and down the towpath in the fall and when winter came, the lake would be drained five feet or so and would freeze over. “In the winter, we’d go ice fishing on the lake,” she said. “My dad had hunting dogs and we’d tie them to a sled and they’d pull us around the lake.” One of the staple assets of Lake Park, the Pavilion, was built in 1923. During the hay days of Lake Park, notable FRONT PORCH Pictured here is a piece of one of the front porches from the musicians such as Sammy Kaye and Glenn Miller performed cottages that used to line the lake. The cottages were vacated and torn down in at the Pavilion. It was also during that time that Lake Park 1972. BEACON PHOTO BY JOSIE SELLERS featured a merry-go-round and a Ferris wheel. A main feature of Lake Park today, other than the COSHOCTON – Lake Park has been a memorable place SEE ‘LAKE PARK’ ON PAGE 11-B for many county residents over the years. This man-made Coshocton attraction has featured everything from quaint SI cottages by the lake to a popular beach where families could 19 NCE swim. 83 Deli & Beverage Lake Park was originally a hub for canals traveling along the Ohio Erie Canal. The middle basin, which is the actual PROUD TO BE COSHOCTON’S FAVORITE DELI & BEVERAGE lake itself, was built in or around 1830 and was used as a STORE SINCE 1983. LOOKING FORWARD TO MANY MORE! holding basin for boats before they traveled into the aqueDAILY SPECIALS Rittberger duct. When the Flood of 1913 occurred, it put an end to the Mon - Hot Ham & Cheese..............$3.99 Meat Bundles Tues - Philly Steak...............................$4.69 canal era. Stop in for flyer. Wed - Reuben.......................................$5.49 During the 1920s and 1930s, cottages were built along We accept major Thur - Empire Steak...........................$4.89 credit cards & Fri - Manhattan.....................................$4.89 the water’s edge. Many people used those cottages seasonSat - Mixed Meat .................................$3.49 EBT cards! ally to enjoy the lake. When the Montgomery family as part of Roscoe Village took over Lake Park in 1972, residents 275 CAMBRIDGE RD. COSHOCTON were asked to leave and the cottages were torn down 0036_042716
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remember times on Christmas Eve long after the store had closed, a customer would call and say they had left a package under the counter and Dad would open up the store and get if for them. Another time, I recall that a customer had returned a pair of socks that day only to realize that they had left a $20 bill in the sock. Of course Jack opened the store to retrieve the money for them. Another two iconic employees of O’Neils were Mae Cooper and Wilma Meek. These ladies worked in the boys’ clothing department. Young boys loved for Mae and Wilma to be the clerk for their parents. It was a fun time shopping for them. Then there was the stately and always smiling Marge Ricketts of the cosmetic department. Marge knew the right shade of eye shadow and lipstick for almost everyone in Coshocton. Ann Wright was the helpful clerk in the lingerie department. A friendlier, honest, pleasant clerk would be hard to find. Iris Hoffman was the mainstay of the jewelry center aisle. She would help customers choose dazzling earrings and necklaces. At various times the Akron store would send special candies to the Coshocton store that would be sold at the jewlery counter. I especially remember the coconut chocolate delights that were exquisitely boxed. I still don’t understand why candy was sold in the jewelry department but Iris sold a lot of those rare candies. Irma Downer was perfect for the ladies wear department. This included sportswear, coats, and dresses. She would often go semi weekly to Akron to choose fashions for the local store. Irma was known to keep files of customer’s sizes and favorite colors so when men’s shopping night was held it was easier for husbands to buy for their wives. Two other helpful clerks were Marie Barcroft and Selma Hoffman in the housewares department. Bob Parks and Jim (Red) Hoffman were gallant salesmen in the electronics and furniture department on the second floor. I will never forget the juke box style record player with flashing colored lights that I bought for my family in the early 80s. SEE ‘MAIN STREET’ ON PAGE 11-B
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One of the stores for nearly fifty years on Main Street in Coshocton was the M’Oneil Company. It was a department store of high quality clothes with reasonable prices and included electronics and furniture. It was the last of the small town stores with parent locations being in larger cities as Akron, Massillon, and Cuyahoga Falls. The malls became the sites of the company in the 70s and early 80s. Still, at the time of the closing of the Coshocton store, O’Neils did proportionately as well financially as that of the larger cities. Coshocton’s O’Neils was known for its renowned employees who knew and cared for their customers very well. My father Jack Baumgardner was the mainstay of the men’s department and also for many years was the assistant manager and fostered the advertising layouts for the business. In fact he had many opportunities for promotion in the chain which would have necessitated moving our family. However, Dad wanted my brother and me to grow up in Coshocton as he had done. He was employed mostly for selling men’s clothes. So when a relative would come to buy a birthday or Christmas gift for a member of their family, Dad would not only know the size needed for them but also their taste of attire. Further, I recall that when he would help customers on the day before Christmas, he would say all I have left is a size 14 ½. The wild eye shopper as Dad told would say, “I’ll take it” even though they needed a large. In addition, I can
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9-B There were many other special Oneilites over the years that made the Coshocton Oneils one of the finest anchor stores ever. I want to mention another store that was an icon of Coshocton’s Main Street and that was the J.C. Penney Company. Andy Carter was the manager and the employees were as special to Coshoctonians as Oneils was to them. Another special memory is that of the Carton’s shoe store when it was located in the 400 block of Main Street. There were special wires with carriers attached that the clerk would pull a string sending the sales money to a second floor office at the rear of the store which in turn would be sent back to the first floor with the change and receipt. In conclusion, my fondest Main Street memory is when on Thanksgiving night leaving my grandparents home on Walnut Street, my parents would drive down Main Street to see the enchanting Christmas lights that had been turned on for the first time of the season. Multi-colored lights entwined in pin were stung the width of Main Street for its entire length. Now, the fabulous Christmas Parade and Miracle on Main Street is forever special to me and to the hundreds of youngsters as they will recall the memories of Coshocton’s Main Street.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9-B Pavilion, is the Monticello III, which takes passengers on a journey into canal era history. The Monticello III was built in 1990 after the dilapidation of Monticello II. For a while, the Monticello II was put on display at Lake Park, but eventually had to be destroyed due to corrosion. In 1985, the Park District was formed and in 1992, Friends of the Park, a volunteer organization who assists the park with projects, events, and beautification, was formed. “We couldn’t do half the stuff we do around here without Friends of the Park,” said Lori Everhart, director of Lake Park. “They want to keep the history of this place alive.” The Playvilion was built in 1997 after, “Let’s Build a Playground Committee” raised funds for the project, and the pool was added in 1999, also built by donations from the community. Today, Lake Park is a place for families to bring their kids to play and socialize, people walk the towpath during every season of the year, and residents celebrate some of life’s biggest moments at the Pavilion. Everhart said the main reason people can continue to enjoy the park is due to the levy passing. “The passing of our levy is the biggest reason why we’re here because we were very close to closing our doors,” she said. This fall, Everhart is hoping to redo the bath house on the campgrounds. “I really think the future looks bright,” she said. “There are no major changes, but I hope people notice it’s taken care of a little better.” Everhart said her favorite memory of Lake Park is all the people she interacts with each day. “My favorite memory is all the people who use the park and come in and say they appreciate it,” she said. “That’s why we’re here because we know people love it, we know people need it, and that’s what makes it worthwhile. Everybody who comes through here really, truly cares about the community. They’re good people.” BETH@COSHOCTONCOUNTYBEACON.COM
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COSHOCTON – In 1946, Ivan Fisher had recently returned to Coshocton from service in World War II and decided to start a business on Main Street. Originally called Fisher Wallpaper and Paint, the business was successful and specialized in wallpaper, which they sold at 5 cents per roll. After 12 years, Fisher sold his business to Don Lessig, who decided to keep the Fisher name. Lessig was originally in the paint industry in Canton prior to moving to Coshocton. He now found himself where the sale of wallpaper is what kept the business running. “There’s a basement under here as big as the building and that’s where Don used to store his wallpaper,” said Bill Potter, current owner of Fisher Decorating. “He had three guys working downstairs trimming wallpaper because it wouldn’t come in finished. They did that all day long.” Now, because of Don and Roger Eastman, Don’s sonin-law who purchased the business in 1987, the business has diversified and now specializes in flooring. Although they still sell wallpaper, it no longer takes up the entire SEE ‘FISHER’ ON PAGE 14-B
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“A lot of technology we use today hasn’t changed much over the years,” Tim said. “After the design is done on the computer and the stencil is cut we still use the same sand blasting that has been done for years. I learned the old ways from my grandfather so if an old stone from the 1920s or 1930s needs fixed I can still do it. It’s a kind of lost art for people that didn’t have the opportunity to grow up with that kind of thing.” Milligan Memorials is known for its civic monuments such as the Coal Miners Memorial on the Coshocton Court Square and headstones made for cemeteries. “Back when we first started they could only do a few stones in a month,” Tim said. “Now we can do four to five a day, but it still takes six to eight weeks to get them from start to finish though when you order one. We can have 80 to 100 stones ahead of us at a time.” Locally they probably do about 150 stones a year for people and a total of five to 600 that can go to a number of different places. “I want to thank the whole community for supporting us,” Tim said. “We’ve served generations of the same families. I don’t know how many times I’ve run into people on the street and I can’t remember their name, but I can remember the exact stone they got from us.” At one time there were five companies in Coshocton who made monuments and Tim said he is glad his family’s bubbled to the top. “I like meeting people and talking to them,” he said. “Almost everybody is going to have to buy a statue once or twice in their life. When they come in here it’s either their first or second time doing it. They are usually looking for guidance in the process and I feel we do that pretty well.” JOSIE@COSHOCTONCOUNTYBEACON.COM
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