Tag: 1970's in Watertown

Big Box Retail Pioneer Robert Hall Clothing Store Opens In Watertown, NY, In 1960 Long

401 Mill Street, Home To J. B. Wise Co., Wilbur’s, California Brewery and Watertown Roller

Goulding, Bagley & Sewall Became Bagley & Sewall, Later Purchased By Black Clawson The origins

Kite Day and Country Jamboree Drew Thousands To Thompson Park In The 70s & 80s

Edwin Paddock Mansion Becomes Jefferson County Historical Society The Paddock Mansion on Washington Street in

Is The Jefferson County Fair The Longest Consecutively Running Fair At 206 in 2023? The

George Cook And The Soldiers’ And Sailors’ Monument, Dedicated In 1891 The story behind George

H. H. Babcock Mansion Gets A Greek Revival Makeover By Anson R. Flower And Later

F. W. Woolworth’s Vision Of The Woolworth Building on Public Square Was Much Different Although

The Fairgrounds Pool, Later Renamed Steve D. Alteri Pool, And A Strange Case Of Déjà

Judge Sawyer Mansion at 141 Ten Eyck Street One of the large, old homes in

The Strand Opened in 1914 as a Modern Theater on Franklin Street Watertown, NY, would

Hillcrest Farm on Ives Street Has An Impressive History Of Ownership Hillcrest Farm on Ives

After 37 Years, Partridge Berry Inn Rekindles Anew By The Fireside The Partridge Berry Inn

Woolworth Relocating To 146 Arsenal Street – The Urban Renewal’s “Success” Story When the city

James F. Starbuck, Prominent Attorney, and Later State Senator, Builds Starbuck Mansion At 253 Clinton

The Crystal Restaurant On Public Square, Since 1925 In the opening of his review of

Many Prominent Owners Of The Old O’Brien House At 216 Keyes Ave Over The Years

Benny’s Steak House Had Three Different Locations Before Closing In 2006 Benny’s Steak House was

Anson R. And Roswell P. Flower Erect A New Trinity Church On Sherman Street With

Giovanni’s: A Terrific Trattoria on LeRay Street Giovanni’s first opened in the late 1960s at

The Dutch Elm Disease Forever Changed the Landscape of Washington Street Ice Storms and a microburst.

A&W Drive-In, 728 Bradley Street “Come As You Are – Eat In Your Car!” Who

Starbuck Arena Saw The Birth of “Sugar” Ray Robinson On January 4, 1939 On January

The Thompson Park Zoo: A Look Back At The Turning Point Toward Natural Habitation In

House of the Good Samaritan, often referred to as City Hospital in its early years,

Gorri’s Market: First a Grocery Store, Then Resurrected as a Meat Market If Gorri’s Market

A Look Back As Harold T. Wiley School Turns The Big 5-0. Harold T. Wiley

Factory Street Fire Station No. 2, 1873 – 1988 Some interesting discrepancies arose while researching

The Watertown Bowl And Its Many Clubs Over The Years (1959 – 1996) In late

The Flower Memorial Library: A Gift From Emma Flower Taylor To The City Of Watertown,

Brookside Cemetery, One Of New York’s Most Compelling Cemeteries Brookside Cemetery, a short distance to

Howard Johnson On Arsenal Street (1962 – 1989) Howard Johnson’s popularity in its 96-year existence

New York Air Brake WW1 Efforts Leads To Construction Of Lansingdorp World War 1 had

Long-Running Music Box Restaurant Moves To New Cedar Square, Eventually Becomes Home To Golden Lion

South Junior High School, the First School Built On the Washington Street Campus, Eventually Became

North Junior High School: A Result Of The 1924 Columbia University Study, Eventually Becomes North

The Second Time Around, There Was Arsenal Street High School… The predecessor to the school

Actually, The 2nd 3rd Arsenal Street School To Occupy The Same Location Completed in 1916, the

The Academy Street Schools: Same Old Story As City’s Other Public Schools The original Academy

Two Different Boon Street Schools, With Lots Of Additions Over The Years The first Boon

The Mead Street Schools: Desperate Needed To No Longer Needed At All. The first Mead

Three Different Schoolhouses Bore The Name Cooper Street School.  Oops, Better Make That Four. It’s

Saved By The Bell: The Old Mullin Street School The original Mullin Street School was

The Cleveland Building On Arcade St Was Originally The City’s First Post Office… On Arsenal

Watertown Neighborhood Grocery Stores – Bajally’s Was First Purpuro’s Before Bajally’s was a staple on

The Original Thompson Park Pool Was Built In 1924 And Was One Of Three City

The Cheese Store, formed as part of the Jefferson Bulk Milk Cooperative, now known as

The Burrville Cider Mill, More Than Just A Local Haunt… Located just outside Watertown, between

All Souls Universalist Church on Washington Street The All Souls Universalist Church, which took several

The Arsenal Street Bridges – 1901 to Present. Unlike the Court, Mill, Vanduzee, Eastern Blvd, and

The Public Square Water Fountain, AKA “Cory’s Punch Bowl” The Public Square water fountain in

State Street Grammar School Replaces Former Watertown High School On State & Mechanic Streets Construction

Was this really the first Watertown train depot?  And it’s still there?! Constructed in 1851,

The Jefferson County Jail at 300 Coffeen Street, 1910 – 1993 Built in an era

Honk Your Horn For The Arch Street Tunnel! The Arch Street tunnel was constructed sometime

Henry Barr, A Former Slave From Kentucky, Builds Barr Block On Court Street In 1895

The Kaiser Block, Home To The Green Lantern Restaurant Located on lower Court Street, some

Prior to the Salmon Run Mall, JCPenney on Arsenal Street was part of a bustling downtown

Just like its predecessor, the second Watertown Post Office outgrows its space too soon The

The First Watertown Post Office Was Completed In 1892 The first Watertown Post Office would

The Old Jefferson County Courthouse On Arsenal Street  – Still There! Completed in 1862, the

The Old Jefferson County Office Building Made Of Stone The new county office building in

The Little Book Shop On Arsenal Street, Watertown NY For all but the Little Book

Arsenal Street Fire Station No. 1 (1908 – 1992) The Arsenal Street fire station would

From Ann’s Stand To Ann’s Restaurant: 67 . . . or 69 Years of Tradition.

Boys’ and Men’s Specialty Shop Opens On Arsenal St Ira Pellman, proprietor of the Boys’

5th Ward School Officially Becomes Sherman Street School Back in the 1920s, before the Sherman

The KarmelKorn Shoppe Comes To The Paddock Arcade The KarmelKorn Shoppe is actually a national

John Adams Pool, aka North Side Pool/North Junior Pool The John Adams pool was originally

Hotel Woodruff, Another Otis Wheelock Creation Post 1849 Great Fire Built by one of Watertown’s

The Olympic Theater: largest seating capacity in Northern New York Opening on June 4th, 1917,