A friend of ours has a machine shop that used to be like that.  His Dad had
it and his Granddad before that, and for all I know maybe other ancestors
before him.  It is a wonderful place to visit even now that Lester uses
more modern equipment.  All the old stuff is still there.  When I was in
high school I used to walk by there in warm weather just to see the belts
and pulleys going round and round and to hear the hypnotic slap of the
belts.  I have no idea what was going on in there just loved the sound.
Ruth



At 10:57 PM -0800 2/24/03, Cuyler Page wrote:
>> The Cayuga Lumber mill couldn't have been run via water power as there is
>no
>> head available and the flow is pretty low much of the time.
>
>I recall going to a belt and lineshaft driven wood working shop and lumber
>yard in Ithaca that I thought was called Cayuga Lumber that was located
>beside the bridge over the creek just below South Hill and the old GLF
>office building site, next to the Greyhound Bus terminal behind the Ithaca
>Hotel and across from Zinks.   Was that Aurora Street?  First Street
>crossing State Street when you arrived downtown from East Hill.   I thought
>the wood shop was run by water power from the creek, a turbine beneath the
>building, and it was magical.   I remember the lumber yard moving down to
>the other end of town and I missed the wonderful magic of the belts and
>pulleys in the new place that was all clean and new and dull.  The woodwork
>shop at the old place beside the creek (was that Fall Creek?) had windows
>all along the creekside to bathe the shop with natural light, and I remember
>as a young child, looking down from them at the raging creek roaring and
>boiling down the channelled creekway during a Spring flood just below the
>open windows.
>
>cp reminiscing in bc
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