[PRCo] Re: CVSR--Quaker Square

[Derrick Brashear]

On Apr 27, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

>   Herb   Maybe they could add the former NOTL terminal building to the tour
> lis= t.  Do you know if the subways are still there?  Last I heard the= y
> were but were filled up with old records.   Dwight

I was just thinking of that. Gary Dillon took me to see it in like 1991. 

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> Apr 27, 2011 02:04:38 AM, pittsburgh-railways at dement= ia.org wrote:
> Quacker Squar= e was bought out (like everything in East/Central Akron) by
> Akron State = University (ASU). The hotel (formerly Quaker Oat Company grain
> elevators= ) is now a large dormitory, the old Railway Express Agency
> buildings are= now ASU facility maintenance offices, a couple restaurants
> remain but m= ore for the enjoyment of ASU faculty, staff and students and
> much of the= area is (what else) a parking lot, albeit a good looking
> parking
> lot. W= hen I used to walk the one mile from home to Spicer Elementary
> Demonstra= tion School every weekday in the 1950s I never dreamed that today
> that t= he one square block Akron University and it's supporting
> businesses woul= d some day take up all the land from that one square
> block, past my elem= entary school, to just a block short of where my old
> house used to stand= . Even more melancholy is that I never thought that the
> wonderful smell = of Quaker Oats being toasted in the Howard Street plant
> (after being rel= eased from the elevators up the Mill St hill to travel, by
> gravity, thro= ugh large pipes under the street) would also disappear.
> Cuyahoga Valley = Railroad (CVR), of course, uses the old B &O North Howard
> Street st= ation. There are several moderate and high priced restaurants
> within wal= king distance along North Main Street. Also, the public transit
> provider= in Akron (Akron Metro) operates a free bus from the train station
> runni= ng in a very large loop and hitting some of the points of interest in
> Ak= ron. Namely, the Mustill Store &Mill, Akron Zoo, the Restaurant &= Bar
> area (like a very small Carson Street) around South Main &Excha= nge
> Streets,
> the Spaghetti Warehouse in Goodrich Commons, the Akron Metr= o Downtown Bus
> Station (focal point of all Metro bus routes, Cantons' St= ark Area Regional
> Transit Authority , Portage Area Regional Transit Auth= ority
> and Greyhound Lines), the Civic Theatre, Lock 3 area and then back= to the
> train station. Akron always seems to have plenty of things going= on any
> time
> of the year and the people returning from the attractions s= eem to be
> happy.
> During the Summer months, upon request, a stop can be m= ade at what is
> called
> the "Big Bend Metro Park Area" where a small bus w= ill take passengers to
> Stan Hywet Hall, the mansion built by Frank A. Si= eberling, Sr around 1915
> (+-). The manor house and gardens are a real ge= m in Akron and are worth
> seeing.
> 
> During the Summer when CVR runs = Canton service the same thing is
> available there. A Stark Area Transit b= us runs a route stopping at local
> Canton points of interest such as the = Pro Football Hall of Fame, the First
> Ladies Museum, President McKinley's= house and gardens and a couple other
> things.
> 
> Like I said, there = is always something going on here and the railroad has,
> fortunately, cha= nged with the times and has become a part of the character
> of this regio= n.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 20:52, Dwight Long wrote:
> 
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>> Herb I just learned that Quaker Square in Akro= n has closed and that all
>> the railway memorabilia are being auction= ed off this Saturday. A few
>> years
>> ago I spent a pleasant af= ternoon there between the inbound and outbound
>> trains of your railw= ay. What will it now use as an attraction in the
> Akron
>> area? Do you= know what caused the demise of the Quaker Square? Dwight
>> 
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> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley Nationa= l Park
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