Some Additional Hamburg, NY Scenes

Winter on Maple Ave., Hamburg, NY


This is the playing field across the street from the Union - Pleasant Grade School. The houses in the background are on Maple Ave. 
Some years, when the weather permits the Village floods the field and turns it into an ice skating rink.
My children could put their skates on in our back hallway and walk in the snow to the rink.

Prospect Ave. and Buffalo St., Hamburg, NY
Dr. Minkel's Office

When we moved here in the 60s we were lucky to find a doctor who would take care of all of us. Amos Minkel had his office in this house. His patients would sometimes be lined up on the front steps and the walkway, waiting their turn to see him. It was first come, first served, everyone kept track of who was next. 
When he left the area we really missed him. Now he is retired and back in Hamburg.

The House on the Corner

This is the North West corner of Maple Ave. and Marengo St..
Frieda Wahl lived there when we first moved to Hamburg.
I didn't get to know her until my son. Ken was her paper boy. He was concerned that she needed help and we were able to find a housekeeper for her.
 After a while she moved into a nursing home. She sent her poetry to the Hamburg Sun for publication.

The Old Hamburg Library

The Hamburg Free Library was here in the early 1960s. I was so very happy to be able to walk up to Center Street in the evening 
and browse through the collection. It was a "Carnegie" Library like the one that I worked in when I was a teenager in New Jersey. 
It was torn down in 1966 to make room for a parking lot for the New York Telephone Co. 
The new Library on Buffalo St. is a sort of civic center. I always meet someone I know there. The library sponsors interesting programs for the community and all are welcome.

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