[ML] Nov. 15 Write-In...Webster!

There are basically only a few main streets :D Empire/Gravel/404, which turns into Ridge, Bay Rd, and Plank Rd. Earthtones is right across the street from Eastway Wegmans on Bay Rd, in the same building as Salvatores's Pizza, in the same parking lot as Bayview Vet Hospital, a nail salon, Eastway Liquor, New Spring II Chinese Food, and Goodwill. Parking is always free :D

http://www.earthtonescoffee.com/
1217 Bay Rd
Rochester, NY 14580
(585) 671-3060

Let's see if linking this map will work...

http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&cid=0,0,99...

Yay! From here, you just fill in A with your address :) Voila! I look forward to having a write-in!

I'm not sure if it's closer to most people in Webster, but there's also the Barnes and Noble and Webster Public Library that's more towards the shopping sort of hub of Webster? The library is the big white and blue building that looks like it used to be a grocery store. It's set behind the Burger King, and is across the shopping center and street from the Hegedorns that you can see from Ridge Road.

BnN
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=43.211291,-77.44...

Library
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=&daddr=43.210759,-77.46...

Howdy.
Bit o' history here:
The current location of the Webster Public Library used to be an Ames Department Store. The Grocery Store (Star Market, then later Apples) was in the vacant space next to the Library.

Shows how old I am...

Ohhh!! That's so cool!! Thank you for sharing!! :D I've only been living here for five years now this month. My husband's parents both lived and grew up here as kids (in Webster, in fact), so they know the lay of the land better. My husband and I, on the other hand, know very little about the area...

Yeah, when I start talking about how Webster used to be, I think of Doc Brown talking about "there were Pines as far as the eye could see -old man Peabody loved his Pine trees" from Back to the Future.

Ask your in-laws if they used to shop at Sibley's next to Wegman's on Bay and Empire or eat at Carrol's (which turned into Burger King - they had the best shakes)

OK, I'll stop now...

Wow...you guys talking about how Webster used to be brings back memories for me...

The library was Ames, and before Ames was Big N (part of the Neisner's store chain). Now I'm dating myself!

I remember Sibley's and Carroll's. There was also an Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips restaurant (yum). Did you ever drive past the Chicken Coop Antiques on the old part of Ridge Road (near the intersection of Ridge and Gravel Roads, and up the road a bit from the Jade Palace restaurant that used to be the Heritage House, which is where my wedding reception was held)? My parents owned that place before they moved south in '85. I lived in Webster from November 1970 to December 1979, and graduated from Webster Schroeder in 1977.

I drive through the town now (we live in Sodus, Wayne County) and can't believe all the changes that have come about... The good old days, I suppose...

Call on the Dawn, did your in-laws graduate from Webster? If so, what year(s)? Makes me wonder if I knew them, although Webster has always been big. (My brother graduated from Schroeder in '73.)

Even though I loved Big N, I was more of a Naum Brother's guy.

Great memories like asking Dad to slow down as we drove by the Empire Drive In so we could watch some of the movie!

I used to sit on the back steps of my parents' house and watch the movies at the drive-in! Too funny :)

Did you graduated from Webster?

LOL Wow.....this started a really cool string of posts!! They do remember shopping at Sibley's, they've mentioned it before :D My husband's dad and family used to live on the tippy-top of the hill overlooking the bay called Inspiration Point. They used to eat at Jade Palace all the time, too :) I'm not sure if they graduated from Webster, but they're in their 70's, almost 80's now, so they might be quite a bit older than you.

As for my husband and I, we live in the farmhouse that used to belong to Samuel L. Pearce, who started all the Forest Lawn stuff down by Bay and Lake. :D I have to say that even in the time we've been here for the past five years, the changes and developments have been incredible. It just cracks me up when I tell people I live in Webster, and they respond with: "Oh, where life is worth living?" Hehehe. I really do like it here, though.

"Last Class" of R.L. Thomas '84 (just before the two schools combined to become Webster High)
My story actually takes place in Webster and involves the Bay bridge underpass (which is now inaccessible) and the Outlet Bridge being removed and of course serial killings of ladies of the night.

A lot of inspiration in Rochester, no?

Someone actually spray painted that slogan on the Dewitt (?) Road Bridge that crosses over 104, so everyone driving into Webster over the Bay bridge could see it. Until someone else spray painted other things and the town had to paint the whole bridge beam.
Inspiration point. What great memories (not what you think). We used to drive in, flash are lights at the parked cars and watch all the heads pop up, then drive away.

See what happens when you and your friends are too geeky to get girlfriends?

Hahahaha!! That's awful, but it sounds like a lot of fun! The people you guys scared probably have the same memory, except, well, where they were probably scared half to death. I can't imagine how people spray paint bridges, we used to have guys who'd hang upside down while tagging overpasses in Los Angeles. I don't know how they managed to tag like that...

Okay, I was thinking they might have been about my age (50), but guess not. Thought it would've been great to reconnect with some people through NaNo :) Did your husband live in Webster, or did he graduate elsewhere? (My husband graduated from Greece Olympia in '75.)

Taking a walk down memory lane...almost-literally via these posts! It's rather bittersweet for me, as my mom died last December and my dad died in June. But, as I'd mentioned, they'd moved from Webster to NC in December 1985, yet they kept in touch with some people. The neighborhoods have changed so incredibly much. My husband is back to working in Webster (at Tire World on Empire Blvd.), across from the building I worked in from '78 to '85 (it used to be L. M. Berry but is now a bunch of medical offices, I believe).

A great site for anyone who went to Webster Schools (no matter your age) is:
http://www.websteralumni.org/

Find your school and year on the left and see who has left a blurb regarding what they are up to now.

:D The age gap between parents/siblings and kids is enormous. My husband and I are 30, and his parents got a really late jump on having kids. His mom was 41/42ish, I believe, because they waited almost 15 years to even start a family after getting married. He and his parents lived in Southern California, and we met through high school there, graduated, did a stint of college up in Oregon, then we moved back out here to Webster (where his parents never would have guessed we would end up!) not five minutes from their parents' old houses :) We live along Bay Rd, so it's not really much of a "neighborhood", so much as we have neighbors. They're really great neighbors, though, super nice! You have my condolences on the passing of your mommy and daddy :( I hope that you're doing alright, and that things are okay for the most part!

:D The age gap between parents/siblings and kids is enormous. My husband and I are 30, and his parents got a really late jump on having kids. His mom was 41/42ish, I believe, because they waited almost 15 years to even start a family after getting married. He and his parents lived in Southern California, and we met through high school there, graduated, did a stint of college up in Oregon, then we moved back out here to Webster (where his parents never would have guessed we would end up!) not five minutes from their parents' old houses :) We live along Bay Rd, so it's not really much of a "neighborhood", so much as we have neighbors. They're really great neighbors, though, super nice! You have my condolences on the passing of your mommy and daddy :( I hope that you're doing alright, and that things are okay for the most part!

Hey guys, just wondering if this write-in will still be happening :) I don't want to trouble our lovely ML to tromp all the way out into the wilds of Webster if it won't have a good turn-out :D I can make it, regardless. Can anyone else make it?

I have no plans at this particular juncture, but as always, transportation may be an issue.. Let me know if anybody is going out there from the Henrietta area and could swing by to pick me up on the way.. if not, I'll have to wait until I find out my boyfriend's schedule.

Any turn out is good turn out! Plus...I still have goodie bags left!

Robin, ML - Rochester, NY

"Fact is there's nothing out there you can't do. Yeah, even Santa Claus believes in you." - Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem

Alright, I'll head out to Earthtones at 1pm-ish. :) Just look for the little Asian girl with glasses and a devil ducky :D

Arrr...I didn't realize it was a holiday of some sort, so Earthtones is closed. I'm sitting out front of the building with my ducky. I'll wait half an hour to see if anyone shows up, then I'll head home, I guess. T.T

I think vedesca had November 15 in mind which is next Sunday..... what are Earthtone's hours on Sundays?? I might end up camping out there for a while after/before you all get there/leave depends on what time my bf has work...

LOL Aw man...I'm so dyslexic with numbers, I don't know why I read that as 11th. Maybe I was confusing it with the Online Write-in tonight. As for Sundays, they're open 8:00 - 4:00. If you need company, I can always show up earlier, or you can have your BF drop you off at my house. I just live right down the street, but I'll warn you that we moved not too long ago and the house is stacked with boxes x.x I also have three cats and a very excitable dog, hee.

hahaha... if he works 11-7 i might need a place to hang out after they close, thanks for the offer. Trying to get myself motivated to do some more writing, just wasted a few hours napping and hassling with my rental office...

Urgh....well it looks like my hubby brought home an illness, we're both down for the count. One of his co-workers had the H1N1 flu, so I'm going to keep us both quarantined at home for the next week or so until our symptoms go away. I haven't gotten anything written...the fatique, lethargy, and malaise are just awful....

Hope you guys are doing better....! I wish I could be there on Sunday with you, but I don't want to give you the flu...!

Actually, Star Market was exactly where the library is now. It then became Ames (Apples in between?). I think it was also a Big N or something in there somewhere. Anyway, it's neither here nor there, really, but I have vivid memories of the roller conveyor system that used to take your bags (paper of course) of groceries from inside the store, through a little hole in the wall, to the outside in rectangular plastic open-top boxes. The boxes had numbers on them, and when they put your groceries into one they gave you a plastic card that was in the bottom of the box with the same number on it. Then you'd drive your car up alongside the building, give the numbers to a worker, and he/she would load your groceries into your car. Always fascinated me. :)

So, I guess I'm probably around the same age as you, SammyG? And have lived here as long... lol.

Ok, I'm finally caught up reading this thread. Can you tell I hadn't finished when I wrote my last post? Anyway, I am hoping to pop in at Earthtones today, but I'm not exactly sure how the day is going to go. My pastor died on Friday and his best friend is speaking today at church, so I may not be such good company. On the other hand, getting out to do some writing and meet some cool people may be just what I need. If I do make it out I probably won't be there right at 1pm since I don't get home from church until 12:30pm on a good day, and my family will then want their lunch :) However, I'm going to make every effort to be at Earthtones by 2pm at the latest.

Who all is planning to be there?

Call_on_the_Dawn, so sorry you won't be at the meet-up today, but I'm sure we all appreciate the precautions you're taking. I hope you feel better very soon!

I'm at Earthtones right now, so if anybody is rarin' to write before everybody gets here, I'm already here :) I'm sitting over by the fireplace, with an RIT Alumni hoodie and beige "Thinking Cap" hat on :)

I too am sorry you can't be here, Call, but i have faith we will be able to meet up at some point :) I'll be here til they close then I'm gonna walk over to wegmans and hang out there (i hope they have a place to sit) until 7pm ish cuz my boyfriend gets off work then.

It's a cute little place, I like it :) I just started writing a little bit ago, so I haven't done too much yet even tho I've been here since 10am :p

Roll call, who's here? I'm the one with the cap sitting by the window :)