Question: This was one of the earliest and most heavily traveled roads in the village prior to 1850. By 1910, the time of this photo, trees and porches lined what was now a residential street. Trees and porches both change over time, but the residential character of this street remains yet today. Can you identify this location?
Last week’s answer: Thanks to Mary Eleanor Slye for the photo from last week. It is a photo of the Baldwinsville Academy Band circa 1945. The photo was taken on the stage. Identification of the members that Mary Eleanor was able to name are as follows:
First row: Yvonne Duger, Shirley Bort, director Ken Drumm at the piano, Douglas Church, Mark Forsell, Hanley (first name unknown).
Second row: Laurel Mandigo, Katherine Kinslow, Rita Mandigo, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Robert Johnson, Paul Reeves, Alice Duger, Carolyn Auyer, Thomas McMahon, Alan Forsell?
Third row: Johanna Fuess, Beverly Loveless, Rosalie Reeves, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Jim Weston, Betty Luke, Rosalyn Reeves, Mary Eleanor Gates, Alan Forsell?
Back row: Bill Hanley, Roland Dack, Bill Weston, unknown, unknown, “Muggins,” Maurice Hay, Freda Dunbar, Elaine Premo, Charles Lory, unknown, unknown, unknown, Bob Fuess.
While historian Bonnie Kisselstein dated the photo around 1950, Mary Eleanor Slye told the Messenger it was taken around 1945.
“I graduated in ‘46 and I’m in it,” she said.
Email your guess to editor@baldwinsvillemessenger.com or leave a message at 315-434-8889 ext. 332 with your guess by noon Friday. If you are the first person to correctly identify an element in the photo before the deadline, your name and guess will appear in next week’s newspaper, along with another History Mystery feature. History Mystery is a joint project of the Museum at the Shacksboro Schoolhouse and the Baldwinsville Public Library.
