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randpa Lou’s Enthusiasms Molded LuAnn By LIBBY CUDMORE
IF YOU would like to talk about your grandparents for our “Across the Generations” series, call Libby Cudmore, 547-6103, or e-mail libbyc@ allotsego.com
ONEONTA or LuAnn Zipp, working as a hostess at Morey’s brings back memories of a life far from Oneonta. “A lot of the clients are elderly, and each one will trigger a memory of my grandparents.” LuAnn grew up in Broad Channel, which she calls “The Venice of Queens.” “Every Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.seniority backyard had a canal,” she said. Mildred and Lou Zipp, LuAnn’s grand- Her apartment on Pine Street here reminds her a lot of the parents, preside at one of those dinners 22 family members were neighborhood. “Everyone had a required to attend every Sunday. yard and a fence,” she said. “It
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LuAnn’s other grandmother, Ethel, a Pan Am stewardess, was indomitable, going horseback riding soon after hip replacement.
was an Italian neighborhood, so everyone grew peppers, tomatoes, squash, and shared them
across the fence – You need a zucchini? I got a zucchini, here,” she said, miming a neighborly exchange. And it wasn’t just vegetables people shared. “My grandfather, Lou, liked to go hunting. He kept his beagles in the backyard, and he’d come up to this area to hunt. He’d come back with a deer tied to the top of his old wood-paneled station wagon, Please See GRANPA, B2
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The Ehrmann Dynasty, dad Raymond with George, soon after the son graduated from the Albany College of Pharmacy. At left, samples of bottles that held “Galenicals” and patent medicines.
Once, Family Pharmacy Was Richfield Springs’ Social, Shopping Hub By JIM KEVLIN RICHFIELD SPRINGS
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ntil you read this, only a handful of people knew industrialist Owen D. Young’s favorite soda fountain drink was a lemon phosphate. On a hot summer’s day, the Van Hornesville native who was General Electric president, and the founder of RCA and NBC, would stop by the R.G. Ehrmann Prescription Pharmacy, the drug store at Main and Lake, for a cooling soft drink. But, then, George Ehrmann – and a few remaining people like him who once ran small-town pharmacies across the U.S. – knows things that very few of the rest of us know or remember, some of which he and wife Joyce shared during an interview at their Craftsman bungalow on Elm Street the other day. Ask him
For George and Joyce Ehrmann, memories of the pharmacy years are vivid.
about Galenicals. Or about Kelling’s Double Kay nut machine. Or Squibb’s Pendistran. Or when Hallmark cards were a novelty. Or when pharmacies had ice cream counters where soda
jerks mixed mysterious elixirs from closely guarded family recipes, and fancy wire chairs were set up at round-top marble tables, ala “It’s a Wonderful Life.” For a half-century, pharmacy and the Ehrmann name were synonymous in Richfield Springs: from 1931, when George’s father Raymond saw an opportunity and opened a store (where Carmella Chiodo’s consignment shop is now), until 1983, when, the dominance of drug-store chains looming, the son closed up shop and joined a Delaware County hospital as its fulltime pharmacist. First, the terms: • Galenicals – the name goes back to Galen, the father of pharmacy from ancient times – were herbal medicines pharmacists prepared for ailing customers. • Put in a penny, and a Kelling Double Kay Nut Dispenser, distributed nationwide by a comPlease See EHRMANN, B3
Rene Prins and the Oneonta Community Concert Band will play at the Grand & Glorious Garage Sale Saturday, Sept. 8.
Grand, Glorious Bargains Abound On Main Street
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he annual Grand & Glorious Garage Sale once again takes over Main Street 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. Great deals, walking tacos, performance by the Oneonta Concert Band. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept 8, Main St., Oneonta. SOCCER TOURNEY: Mayor’s Cup Soccer Tournament feature Syracuse, St. Bonaventure, NJIT and others Division I and III teams, Friday-Sunday Sept. 7-9. Hartwick College Elmore Field, SUNY Oneonta Alumni Field, Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3500. ONE-OF-A-KIND: Main View Gallery’s “Humbugs” exhibit features fabric sculptures of characters real and imagined. Opening reception, 5-7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at 73 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1890. DANCING SHOES: Social dance, featuring music by Miss Marty & SGB. Suggested donation: $8 adults; $4 students, teens; free 12 and under. 8-11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7. Presbyterian Church, corner Pioneer and Church streets., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 965-8232, www. otsegodancesociety.blogspot. com PREVENTION WALK: 9 a.m. “Out of the Darkness” community walk to benefit American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept 8. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, registration, (607) 267-6288, donnalange30@yahoo.com. SAY ‘AHHHH’: Enjoy a “spa for your brain” with a free Hypnosis Clinic. 3-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8 at The Plains at Parish Homestead, Education Center, 3rd Floor, 163 Heritage Circle, Oneonta. Info, (607) 287-7907. ONE-MAN SHOW: Tom Morgan’s “A Coda: The Final Tales from the Empire.” 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept 9. Free, Chapel Hall, Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 8293700.
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