I’m on a roll now. Or at least I hope so. This week I
started my walk of Tomahawk at Memorial Park, heading back around Riverview
Nursing Home and south towards the old Sacred Heart Hospital. I tripped coming
into the parking lot, which put a damper on my travels, so I walked west on
Lincoln Avenue, back to Fourth Street and then north to the Park. I promise
that by next week I will post a map here. I just need to get it together (as in
my head, and not necessarily the map).
This is the back side of
Riverview Nursing Home. This would be where Dr. Henderson’s hospital was many years ago. That
was where I was born, and I won’t tell you what year that was.
The army surplus store called this its home for many
years. A while back the
surplus store moved into the old Tomahawk Drug Store
building and this one became the
Jester Studio. Last time I was by here, there
was a lot more activity. It looked pretty desolate; I will have to investigate
this further.
I remember when Family Dollar was the IGA. Was it Jack’s
IGA for a while? There used to be three grocery stores in town, this one, Hanke’s
and Nelson’s. Mom always shopped at Hanke’s, but I will have to write about
that another day.
And
back to Memorial Park.
This is the M4A8 Sherman Medium Tank which has a special
place in the heart of my family. And here is why.
Some may think that this was some kind of vandalism (and
I am so thankful that no one has vandalized this tank), but they are the
initials of the kids who painted this tank back in 2003 as part of my son’s Eagle
Scout project. His would be the initials “NC”. He sure had us sweating back in
those days, as he got his Eagle requirements turned in just days before the cut
off (his 18
th birthday). He still leaves us wringing our hands in
worry sometimes.
4 comments:
Fun walk! Small correction: In the early 1950s, there were five food stores in Tomahawk--Hanke's, Kall's, the A&P, National Tea, and Nelson's. At the time I worked after school and during one summer vacation at the National Tea, Nelson's was located in Frenchtown. Buck moved the business to the present location soon after that, as I recall.
Oops. Actually, there several more grocer--Bud's (Kuntz), Allen's, Dean's, and one near St. Mary's school whose name I can't recall right now.
Missing my Tomawalks. With Dad gone I don't seem to get there anymore. :-(
Wasn't going to spill my age, but I am a child of the sixties. But there also was a store in Jersey City on Hwy CC. Wasn't it run by Birdie Hirsch?
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