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Looking North on Water Street.
June 23, 1972
Platt Street at Hamilton, looking toward 4 corners, while the water was rising.
Did you know there was a song about The Flood of '72? And did you know there's a young adult book based upon The Flood of '72? Both the song and book are centered around Elmira, but are still relevant to Painted Post and what the residents saw and experienced that day.
And there's also a story about the Flood, that takes place south of Painted Post, in Pennsylvania. It's simply titled Agnes and is a narrative about a nine year old boy, the background of the flood and his memories of it.
A few photos of
Just after pulling into Painted Post.
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Before it was torn down.
Looking North on Hamilton Street.
Looking at Tillmans Drug Store at Water & Hamilton streets.
Looking South on Hamilton Street at the
Post Office.
The Indian Monument before it was moved.
(Notice the high water mark on the Post above the Indian's head.)
And who could forget Boscos?
An interesting grave stone found at the Coopers Plains cemetery.
Remember Bement's Dairy Store?
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The Flood of '72
(Known as hurricane "Agnes")
The four corners in Post.
The Presbyterian Church on Hamilton Street.
A look at Hamilton St. south and Erwin Valley from the water tower.
The Apenowich
garage on Olive Street.
A photo of the Erwin Valley as taken from the top of the water tower on West Hill.
The "old" King's Dairy store on Pulteney street.
What's left of McDonalds on Pulteney.
A view of Riverside from the railroad bridge looking north on Pulteney.
The damage at Bill Connor's Auto Sales (kitty-corner from Fazzary's).
A house on the Gang Mills exit of route 15.
The name of it is: It Sprinkled, It Rained, and It Poured.
John Nickerson wrote and also recorded this song.
You can hear it by clicking on this LINK.
It's titled Rat Life by Tedd Arnold.
You can read a review of it HERE.
You can hear it HERE.
Lt Col Wally "Moe" Newcomb
and his homecoming to Painted Post from over five years in a North Viet Nam
POW camp.
An Air Force pilot of a F-105, he was shot down
and captured in North Viet Nam August 3rd, 1967 at about 7am on a Thursday morning...
And released on March 14th, 1973.
Happy to be home
A lot of Painted Posters turned out for his homecoming that day.
Another photo of the welcome home crowd.
And the start of the parade that took him home.
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