This album contains photos from my childhood growing up at Hundred Springs, a magical place that was a small part of my life in years but so much larger in shaping who I became.
Hundred Springs was once a popular park whose springs and bubbling brooks offered welcome respite from the summer heat. The park was described in a chapter in the 1897 book, "Tyrone of Today", which I have transcribed HERE.
It is hard to imagine that the old stone structure that was our house (really one of 3 apartments) was once a bustling mill that produced dozens of barrels of flour daily for the surrounding area. The operations of the Hundred Springs Mill was described in an article from the Tyrone Daily Herald printed June 23, 1896 that I have reproduced HERE.
Although these articles are less than a year apart, it seems that the management of both the park and the mill changed hands in the intervening months.
In 1952, my dad got a 35mm Kodak camera. Instead of gray B&W photos we now had color! I recently scanned in these from slides. The colors are fantastic. When you scan them in, it's like you had a time machine to travel back all those years.
Color photos are scans from 35mm slides using a Nikon Coolscan V scanner. Rectangular Black and White photos were scanned from 35mm prints.
The descriptions under the photo thumbnails in the album sometimes contain links to maps or additional information. These are identified by "Blue” text for links. I've also inserted links to Google Maps to show where certain photos in the album were taken or to locate features shown in the photos. Click on the link, close the sidebar, then you can then zoom in and out using the mouse wheel or drag the map by clicking and holding.
-Cascade Bill Mooseker
Date(s): 1952. Album by Cascade Bill. 1 - 51 of 51 Total. 719 Visits.
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Points of interest around Hundred Springs - Refer back to this map to locate these when described in the photo descriptions. Location of Hundred Springs in Google Maps can be found HERE. Similarly Google Street View is HERE.
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Class photo of my 3rd grade class. I'm in the back row at the far right. Our teacher, Mrs. States is to the right of me.
Front Row: (Harold or Howard) Robenolt(?), David Brubaker, Richard Laird, Jimmy Harpster, Eddie Bickle, Steve Miller, Lee Gorman, and Gary Neff
2nd Row: Pauline Murray, Whiz Hicks, Carole Conrad, Veronica Meek, Martha Couch, Sarah Steele, Jane Smith, Louise Lake, Glenda Harpster
3rd Row: Jack Porta, Elmer Nearhoof, Earl Carper, Charlie Beher, Ronnie Ayers, Richard Meyers, Bill Mooseker, and Mrs. States
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enlarge 173KB, 689x1024 6 09-19-23-1952-003 Butch (Walter) Snyder and his son Mike
enlarge 186KB, 1024x687 7 09-19-23-1952-007 Easter Photo down by the barn: Elaine, Bill, & Mark
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enlarge 216KB, 1024x702 9 09-12-23-1952-014 Mother with her Geraniums
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This is from our back porch. We didn't use it very much. Seems to be a little later in the summer as the Geraniums are in full bloom
enlarge 238KB, 1024x697 11 s-52-0011 Elaine and Bill You can see the papermill pump house in the backgound
enlarge 227KB, 1024x693 12 s-52-0020 Mr. Artman
He was the principal of the Warriors Mark Franklin School (1-12) when I was in first grade. My parents became friends with the Artman's (his wife was my first grade teacher). In High School he was my Biology Teacher. Much to my brother Mark's dismay six years after I had taken Biology from him, he always referred to Mark as Bill-Mark.
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So proud of my Cub Scout uniform. That is Butch Snyder's 1951 Merc, complete with visor and fender skirts. It is a dead ringer for the Pharoah's Merc in American Graffitti - Seen Here and HERE
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I was in Pack 27 of Tyrone. I still have some of the crafts we made at our den meetings.
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Note fencing - I don't know if this was the "gate" in our new dog Kimmie's pen or if Dad is in the process of building the pen.
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enlarge 152KB, 690x1024 19 09-12-23-1952-008 Striking a pose.
Years later I remember sitting there fiddling with a "circuit tester" that Dad had made from an old electrical cord ending in two nails and a little light bulb that would light up if there was a circuit. As it was plugged in, I was testing it on different spots on my body, legs, etc. with no reaction.
Then when I put it between my ears. BOOM! It felt like someone had hit me with two hammers. My mom couldn't stop laughing (because of the expression on my face). We never did determine if the light went on!
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On the right is the wooden cutting board that my mom used nearly every weekend to make the most delicious cinnamon rolls. Whenever our scout troop had a bake sale, my scoutmaster, Gerald Butterbaugh, would meet her at the door and take them before anybody else had a chance.
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Basically we were in a two bedroom apartment with a large finished attic. At the time, Mark was sleeping in a crib in my parents bedroom.
One night he woke up in the middle of the night and exclaimed, "What's going on over there". The next day I was moved up into the attic. I still have that dresser and bed today.
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Dad having some beer and cheese in our living room. We rarely used the ceiling lights around the room like the one above him.
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The door on the left was to Strohm's apartment and the door on the right was to ours (we lived on the 2nd floor above the Snyders who lived on the first floor below us. The strip between the stone curbs was used to access the coal chute (which you can see up against the house) and later to deliver oil.
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Playing in the road in front of our house: Sharon and Mike Snyder, Bill, and Mark.
You can see Kimmie at the corner of our playhouse and our 1951 Chevy. The car in the distance is stopped at the watering trough.
enlarge 216KB, 1024x708 26 09-12-23-1952-017 Sharon and Mark - looks like Mark is doing a little dance.
enlarge 217KB, 1024x694 27 09-12-23-1952-018 Mike and Sharon - That's our front door behind them
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Kimmie and Mike and Mark's tricycle. It was contemporary back then but looks so old fashioned now (2023)
It looks like Mom has planted a few begonias here. By the next year this little strip had been much improved as shown in this photo, click HERE.
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The gang hanging out on the cellar doors next to the Snyder's front porch (our porch was directly above).
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Mike by Butch's barbecue - you can see that the base of the tree next to Mike has been "whitewashed".
enlarge 174KB, 1024x723 35 09-12-23-1952-025 Me at the same spot
enlarge 188KB, 1024x693 36 09-12-23-1952-026 Mark and Bill at the same spot
I don't remember Butch using that fireplace very often and I don't know why that tree was whitewashed.
You can see the cellar doors for the pumping station at top right. The cellar was a proper dungeon that had a few old lights with damp dripping walls. It was a great place to keep your night crawlers though.
enlarge 187KB, 1024x706 37 09-12-23-1952-028 Tom Strohm, our neighbor and his Plymouth
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enlarge 271KB, 1024x697 39 s-52-0150 Mom at Whipple's Dam
I wish Dad had waited another 30 seconds before he pressed the shutter! That's our old wool army blanket that served us many years on beaches such as this. Whipple's Dam is located Here
enlarge 224KB, 1024x697 40 s-52-0151 Mark I don't know what he's mad about, but he sure looks unhappy.
enlarge 204KB, 1024x692 41 s-52-0190 Mark A little happier here
enlarge 241KB, 1024x697 42 s-52-0160 Elaine, Sandy Stauffer (our neighbor), and me
Whipple's Dam was where I learned to swim when I was 5 or 6. I didn't have any formal lessons and my dad and I would swim to the other side of the lake and back.
enlarge 180KB, 1024x687 43 09-12-23-1952-030 Mark at Whipple's Dam
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enlarge 195KB, 1024x682 45 09-12-23-1952-033 Bill & Mark playing in the sand
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Dorsey and Pop (my grandmother and grandfather), Mother, and Opoe (my great grandmother).
"August 1952" was written on the back of this photo. It must have been when we were on our way to Maine. Why Mom is grabbing at that little boy no one will ever know.
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Bill & Mark on the "upper" road - you can still see this tree (at least it was there in 2008) in this photo (click HERE) taken from the opposite direction.
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Fall colors as seen from the "Holler" road that runs from Hundred Springs to the road to Warriors Mark
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Farms along the Holler (hollow) road, which is now known as the "Hundred Springs Road"
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Elaine feeding the horses that were kept in the barn by the Barr's, who lived in the log house up the lane.
