http://www.maureengreencny.com/upstate/.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:02:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.maureengreencny.com/upstate/.html/comment-page-1#comment-1809 Denny Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:29:39 +0000 http://www.maureengreencny.com/?p=3282#comment-1809 Hi Maureen,You and I being from New England at different times,saw big industry move to different areas. The textile mills that I worked at as a teenager, moved south to cheaper labor. That for me was 1954 and I thought at the time, I would work there for life. The town of Housatonic Ma. had about 5000 folks. They had one large mill that made bedspreads. My father worked there and I worked there two summers. The town had 4 private grocery stores,with meat department with each one, 1 private drugstore, and a 5@10 cent store. Just imagine you could call the grocery store and give your order and have them deliver it and put it on a tab! The bus came from Pittsfield and stopped at 2 places in Housatonic and travel to Great Barrington Ma. for 5 cents. That was 1 cent a mile. There was a movie theater in Great Barrington and it was 10 cents for the show. That means for 25 cents your Mom could send you to the show,buy you a candy bar and ride the bus round trip. Wow! She did not have to worry about you either. That just goes to show you big business has been moving from the north east for years and effects people the same way for lots of years.. Housatonic has about 1500 people now ,still has a private drug store, and one small grocery store (no home delivery or tab anymore thou). Bar rooms seem to be the strong business in Housatonic now. Syracuse is a large city,but,is changing and 50 years from now it will only be a great memory to the teenagers of Syracuse, as Housatonic Mass. today is to me. Hi Maureen,You and I being from New England at different times,saw big industry move to different areas. The textile mills that I worked at as a teenager, moved south to cheaper labor. That for me was 1954 and I thought at the time, I would work there for life. The town of Housatonic Ma. had about 5000 folks. They had one large mill that made bedspreads. My father worked there and I worked there two summers. The town had 4 private grocery stores,with meat department with each one, 1 private drugstore, and a 5@10 cent store. Just imagine you could call the grocery store and give your order and have them deliver it and put it on a tab! The bus came from Pittsfield and stopped at 2 places in Housatonic and travel to Great Barrington Ma. for 5 cents. That was 1 cent a mile. There was a movie theater in Great Barrington and it was 10 cents for the show. That means for 25 cents your Mom could send you to the show,buy you a candy bar and ride the bus round trip. Wow! She did not have to worry about you either. That just goes to show you big business has been moving from the north east for years and effects people the same way for lots of years.. Housatonic has about 1500 people now ,still has a private drug store, and one small grocery store (no home delivery or tab anymore thou). Bar rooms seem to be the strong business in Housatonic now. Syracuse is a large city,but,is changing and 50 years from now it will only be a great memory to the teenagers of Syracuse, as Housatonic Mass. today is to me.

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