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From: NAMJIG@aol.com
To: sklein52@comcast.net
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 01:03:28 +0000

Hello Sharon, I grew up on the 200 hundred block of West Oak in Shenandoah and we all played in the alley, New York Street, right behind our house at the rear of Harris'  Bakery.   When the Harris Bakery was being modernized we used to walk the steel beams between what would be the basement and the first floor of the bakery. We would jump down into sand ten or so feet below. The rear of the bakery had a fairly long concrete loading platform at the end of which was a double-doored trap door. 
One Fourth of July a bunch of us kids were setting off fire crackers.  I was on the platform backing up with my fingers in my ears and didn't hear the rest of the gang shouting their warnings to stop. I hit the open doors and did a back flip and landed on my face on the concrete below.  I don't know how long I was unconscious but I came to lying on a pile of bags full of flour.  Somebody ran and called my  mother, and she and Sam carried me up to the corner of West and Oak  streets to Dr. Siedlik,  a local dentist.  He said he would do everything to save my front teeth.  I was just getting my second teeth then. So he pushed them back up into my gums and and inserted a rubber piece into my mouth and told me to bite down onto it periodically.  It worked. That was about 1939 or so.  I still have the teeth.  In my mouth,that is. 
I have numerous stories about Harris'.  Every Sunday morning I was sent for bagels and cream puffs and remember Sam and his family at the front of the shop at the end of a work day. Sincerely,
Ignatius Namiotka
St. Augustine , Florida 
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From: Paul Stefanowicz pjstef@yahoo.com
To: sklein52@comcast.net
Subject: harris bakery
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:50:10 +0000

Hi Sharon,

I was just looking at your pieces on Harris Bakery and all the photos.
My family knew yours very well, and here is how:
First, my great aunt and uncle operated a saloon at 224 W Centre St, right next to Harris. This was very early on, in the 20s and 30s. After they sold it, it changed hands several times. Perhaps you recall it along the way - did it have a name? I never knew its name.

222 W. Centre St. on left (early Harris Bakery location) , 224 on right

The saloon at 224 W Center next to the 222 building, as they looked in 1995. The former saloon was demolished soon thereafter.

A daughter from that saloon (Mildred Zglinsky) who would therefore be a cousin of my dad's, married Mike Shala, an employee of Harris's. They met due to the proximity of the businesses. Perhaps you remember Mike - he worked for Harris's fr om the 30s through the 1970s. I didn't see his name among those who kept the business alive - but maybe you remember him nonetheless, as he was there for a very long time.

Mike Shala, late 60s, former Harris employees for about 40 years.

Mike Shala died in 1980. His wife Mildred died in 1987.

Take care - thanks for posting the stories and the photos!
My dad was born in Shenandoah, but I grew up in NJ.

Regards,

Paul Stefanowicz
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Bill Simons adds-
Here is a picture of 222 W. Centre taken