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 -- Ruth Barton [log in to unmask] Westminster, VT -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>