I was in Liberty when exploring the nearby Borscht Belt ruins, which you can see here. The downtown of Liberty is lovely, small, and of course, struggling. Here are a few views that I dug.
Will you look at this:
It appears to be...a stationery store?
One of the rarest of bricks-and-mortar businesses.There's no way this can still be in business! The services advertised in the window are faxes, copies, and rubber stamps. Inside:
Is this building Deco or the residential version of a Doo-Wop era finned hot rod?
In the Family Dollar visible beyond this whimsical almost googie style laundrette, there was a near riot on the day we visited when they had to turn away patrons saying their comany system was down. I exagerate, but people were not pleased.
And with that, other than a church, a supermarket called like American Market or some such, the library, police station, a bar and grill called McCabe's (appropriately enough), and a motel which is probably no longer the type that takes overnight guests, you've now basically seen the whole downtown.
There are two thrift stores on and just off the main street, but don't get excited: we're talking second generation Wal-Mart fare. There's another thrift slightly out of town on 55. There, I found a few cool things to buy such as vintage House Beautiful and Esquire magazines for .25 each, but I also spotted something disturbing. It was a suede jacket that I'm fairly certain is a Nazi / other extremist group item. Here's the crummy iPhone pic I took on the down-low.
I just think if you've ever seen the logo of the SS...you're not going to incorporate anything remotely like it into your own logo (along with stitched renditions of a W and an S and a cross inside a circle) if you don't have similar intentions. Anyway! This is not, of course, meant to represent this town in any way or the seller who most likely was not at all aware it was in their extensive collection, but I just didn't know where else to deposit this disturbing information.
And finally, highly recommended, if you are hungry in Liberty: North Main Mexican Grocery & Deli.
Stumble It!
The "deco or doo-wop" building was built in the 1930s, but the third floor (where the fins are) was added, yes, in the 1950s. Used to be a doctors' office with living quarters upstairs, and the waiting room was also really 1950s typey -- pine paneled with florescent lights in the window valences and lots of glass block -- and a sailfish mounted on the wall.
Posted by: Geoff frm Lbty | 06/21/2011 at 02:10 PM
Its really awesome market, i like it very much and wanna to go there.
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Colleen! Matt and I are going to Parksville/Liberty this weekend (stopping at some farms in Orange County on the way up) and in my search for photos of Grossinger's, look where I ended up! Small world.
Posted by: roopa | 10/03/2012 at 01:49 PM
Belated thanks to Geoff from Liberty.
@roopa , Crazy! You saw my post on Grossingers, right?
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Posted by: cokane | 10/03/2012 at 02:01 PM
WOW!!
I WAS A PAINT & HARDWARE SALESMAN & CALLED
ON THE BORSCHT BELT FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST ACTIVE COMMUNITIES AS A SALES REP THAT I CALLED ON. LIBERTY ,MONTICELLO,SO.FALLSBURGH,JEFFERSONVILLE ETC.
I REMEMBER SABLOFFS,SULLIVANS,LIBERTY LUMBER,
FALLSBURGH LUMBER,COOPER PAINT & MANY MORE.
I ALSO STAYED AT THE BIG "G"ON BIZNESS FOR OVER 25 YEARS. GREAT MEMORIES HANK J
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