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Jackson Center</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>I had the pleasure of spending some twenty years inside this building. Now home to the Robert H. Jackson Center (you know the guy from the Nuremberg Trials) it spent years as the home to the AASR Valley of Jamestown, and the offices of the Shrine Club. My Mother was the office manager there for years working for both Masonic groups. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I was slave labor stuffing thousands of envelopes as a child just to get free tickets to Midway Park......  Wait I mowed the lawn there too ... Shoveled snow there too.... Where were the child labor laws when I was a kid?</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="20aa53b0.gif" border=0 width="421" height="59" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.reglenna.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reglenna.com"><U><B><IMG SRC="0efe0330.jpg" border=0 width="480" height="307" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.reglenna.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.reglenna.com"><U><B>The Reg Lenna Civic Center</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>The first Grand Old Lady I fell in love with</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="20aa53b0.gif" border=0 width="421" height="59" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.designsmiths.net/lucilleball/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.designsmiths.net/lucilleball/"><U><B><IMG SRC="0f6a7c50.jpg" border=0 width="167" height="197" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0f81bc50.jpg" border=0 width="283" height="197" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.designsmiths.net/lucilleball/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.designsmiths.net/lucilleball/"><U><B>LTJ - Spent lots and lots of time here, on-stage, back stage, and defeating my fear of heights on the damn catwalk over the house and on top of the grid backstage some seven stories above the stage.</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="20aa53b0.gif" border=0 width="421" height="59" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.fentonhistorycenter.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fentonhistorycenter.org/"><U><B><IMG SRC="0fa64520.gif" border=0 width="100" height="82" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="0fbaa800.jpg" border=0 width="170" height="128" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.fentonhistorycenter.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.fentonhistorycenter.org/"><U><B>Fenton Historical Center</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>As a kid I spent a lot of time here too... especially looking up the old theatres of Jamestown. You know we once had 14 theatres in Jamestown? Now only two (three if you count the Winter Garden that has sat empty and closed downtown for years) left.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="20aa53b0.gif" border=0 width="421" height="59" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.stlukesjamestown.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.stlukesjamestown.org/"><U><B><IMG SRC="50abcba0.jpg" border=0 width="700" height="186" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>St. Luke's Church</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ciweb.org/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ciweb.org/index.html"><U><B><IMG SRC="0fcc8560.gif" border=0 width="200" height="86" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ciweb.org/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ciweb.org/index.html"><U><B>Chautauqua Institution</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>This is the one and only and the original Chautauqua. You know that the term "Chautauqua" was used to described the "circuit" that speakers ran in the 1800 and early 1900's. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>To the local Indian tribes, Chautauqua means "bag tied in the middle" which describes Chautauqua lake.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="20aa53b0.gif" border=0 width="421" height="59" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ajtexashots.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ajtexashots.com"><U><B><IMG SRC="30c555a0.jpg" border=0 width="85" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B><B>Better than White Castles, Better than Taco Cabana, Better than bad sex, It's the one and only AJ's Texas Hots!!!</B></div> <div> <B>--Just for fun google   AJ's Texas Hots  The results give you my website Before the AJ site... Funky huh?</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="20aa53b0.gif" border=0 width="421" height="59" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ecklofbakery.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ecklofbakery.com"><U><B><IMG SRC="30ef4420.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="66" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>If you are a Swede from Jamestown - You know Ecklof's!</B></div> <div> <B>Long before the world heard of addicting drugs, there were </B></div> <div> <B>PINK STRIPE COOKIES!!!!</B></div> <div> <B>Okay, honestly they are these shortbread cookies with a pink stripe down the center. An elegant yet simple thing right??</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>NO!!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>For as long as I can remember you always got a free one when you went to the bakery. A fiendish plan as you slowly over time became addicted to them!</B></div> <div> <B>Now every trip home it's cookies, scorpers, almond tarts, and limpa bread. The last time I went home a got a cheap flight from Tampa International home for $99.00. I spent $115.00 at Ecklof's for my fix!!!!!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So a return trip to Florida always consists of Ecklof's food, AJ sauce, Grandma Brown Baked Beans and Lean's pizza.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>You know after reading that you'd think that I like food!</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="20aa53b0.gif" border=0 width="421" height="59" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>