To qualify as a "Certified Citizen of Leeds" you must pass this test:
(according to Jim Parsons of Irish Town)

Do you remember:

1. What Wilfred Sarrazin, Sid Marcotte, George LaCroix, and Harry Tetrault had in common?

2. Where the TB San was located?

3. Swinging on the rope hanging from the towering pine over the lower Res?

4. Being afraid of Crook Mac?

5. Free dog bones at Sarrazin's or Marcotte's?

6. What the trademark of Corticelli Silk was?

7. When steamed clams were available to take home in YOUR pot from the Leeds Inn?

8. When Mrs. Struthers had the only electric clock in the "big" building?

9. When every boy had a jackknife in school?

10. How you burned your rear on the radiators in Nonotuck Hall trying to take a corner shot?

11. When "saddle the donkey" was game of choice at recess?

12. When turning in a milk or soda bottle allowed you a choice of candy in the display case?

13. When Jack Seney charged 25 cents for a haircut and made your hair smell great with a few squirts of one of his lotions?

14. When the Mill River was more than a few inches deep?

15. When the pastures in Leeds were clear of trees and inhabited by cows?
15a. When a new bike was cause for every kid in the neighborhood to show up to await its delivery?

16. When Bub Tower delivered milk in his horse and wagon?

17. When unemployed men waited all day to get a job caddying at the Country Club?

18. When the swim suits provided at Look Park were made of wool, looked like Johnny Weismuller's at the Olympics, smelled of chlorine, hreatened to drag you to the bottom and allowed a peek through one of the moth holes?

19. When a five cent Sugar Daddy at Look Park lasted all the way home and challenged your teeth to stay in place?

20. When a nickel Mr. Goodbar raised your sugar level for three days?

21. When nobody had the nerve to jump off the Cook's Dam bridge?

22. When "high cuts" were worn by all the boys and came complete with a jackknife in a built-in pouch?

23. When Ruth Burke checked out your library books upstairs at the Firehouse?
23a. Where that Firehouse was?

24. When there was always a crowd of men playing cribbage in the Firehouse?

25. When the fireman on duty let you change your skates or just warm up in the firehouse?

26. When you got free games on the pinball machine at Sarrazin's by using a corset stay in place of a nickel?
26a. What a "corset stay" is?

27. When teenagers believed that eating yeast cakes would cure zits?

28. When a scoundrel drilled a hole in the side of the pinball machine and used a wire to ring up the scores and win endless free games?

29. When "Fricky" Sarrazin would load his car or delivery wagon and bring a gang of kids downtown to the movies, usually at the Plaza Theater, popularly known as "The Scratch House"?

30. When groceries, no matter how small the order, were delivered, and credit was available until the next paycheck came in?

31. When you tried to patch a hole in the sole of your shoe with a rubber half-sole that never stuck very long and had you walking with a clop, clop?

32. When kids made "horseshoes" by stomping on a tin can and banging the edges tight with a stone?

33. When scrap drives were conducted by school kids during WWII making anything of metal- not bolted down- fair game?

34. When telling Ruth Burke, the Gazette correspondent, that you were
having company for a week, was sure to get your name in the Leeds News in the Gazette?

35. When the horse trough across from the Boarding House was just like the one across from the Calvin Theater downtown?

36. Why Warner Row, called "seven houses", has only six houses?

37. When everyone knew where Crow Hill, Foster's Bars, Howard's Pasture, Irish Town, Yankee Hill, and Schoolhouse Hill were?

38. When the two schools were known as the "little building" and the "big building"?

39. When the partially demolished factories on Main Street looked like the bombed out English towns in WWII?

40. What the Mill River was like when sewer lines all the way to Burgy emptied into it?
(Which explains why all the kids from Leeds who went swimming in the Mill River were expert at the breast stroke.)

41. What happened to a penny you left on the railroad track for the Burgy Bullet to run over?

42. When the "lunch room" in the school was a bench next to the boiler in the basement?

43. When you walked back and forth to school four times every day?

44. When even first graders living in Irish Town walked over a mile each way, had to cross three bridges, a railroad track and climb the hill to get to school?

45. When Leeds didn't top the list as the most desirable place to be from in Northampton?

46. When knickers were standard issue when you grew too old for shorts?

47. When girls AND boys wore long brown stockings attached to their one-piece underwear with garters?

47. When inkwells were in every desk?

48. When the "rubber tube" was whispered about as the fearsome penalty for bad behavior?

49. When a large piece of slate with water running down it from a perforated pipe on top dominated the boys' room in the basements of both school buildings?

50. When a trip to downtown Northampton was a special event?

51. Where the Meadowcrest Farm was?

52. The family names of individuals with nicknames like Monko, Curly, Coo-coo, Bulletproof, Shakey, Schnell, Sissy, Ace, Ish, Bucky, Honey, Lodjoo, Todjoo, Crowlick, Votz, Sonny, Porky, Lock, Fricky, Bobo, Chick, Thumper, Scrub or Pet?

53. Where the Tom Thumb miniature golf course was located?

54. The two young men from Leeds who went to West Point?

55. Where the present Leeds School was almost located?

56. Where the Albany Turnpike started?

57. The street down which the Marquis de LaFayette was escorted to Northampton?

58. Where the wedding was held where the caterers arrived in a special railroad car?

59. What Henry Clay was given when he visited Leeds?

60. The name of the silver screen's first Charlie Chan who married a Leeds girl and summered here for years? What her family name was?

61. The Congressman who married a girl from Leeds and owned a chain of diners and a Springfield Airport?

62. The Governor of Massachusetts who came here as a young boy with his widowed mother to work in the mills?

63. Where the Leeds Hotel was located?

64. When there were four grocery stores (one of them also a package store) in Leeds? Where they were?

65. When there were actually "Yankees" on Yankee Hill and "Irishmen" in Irish Town?

66. When cows were led from farms around town to farms with a bull for romantic interludes?

67. When the chicken manure from Greenwood's Chicken Farm was spread all over the Country Club as fertilizer?

68. When Archie Versailles drove a team of draft horses after WW II for Grant Paper Products?

69. When saw rigs were towed from house to house to cut up the wood supplies for the next heating season?

70. When ice was cut from Howard's Pond?

71. When the Mill River was crowded with skaters as soon as the ice was thick enough?

72. Where the State Police Barracks were once located in Leeds? When?

73. Where the post office was located before the present one was constructed?

74. What was on the Chartpak site before they located there?

75. What the name of one of the policemen was who walked a beat in Leeds?

76. Where the War Memorial was originally located?

77. The five cent movies in the basement of St. Catherine's?

78. When the Emperor Hirohito's horse visited the VA Hospital?

79. Where the young men of the village had the "Men's Club"?

80. When the near-impregnable reservoir dam resisted the wrecking ball because the dam was as solid as the pyramids?

81. When you didn't have to pay to swim in the "res"?

82. When some locals attributed the sparing of the house that became the Leeds Inn to divine intervention?

83. When the local midget "Teabert", barely four feet tall, was regarded with awe because it was said that he had beaten up the well-known local tough guy "Tug" Kennedy?

84. When you picked up eggs at the Bean farm and made your own change in the cash box?

85. When the brays of the two donkeys, Jack and Jenny, owned by Mrs. Bowles, could be heard all over Irish town much to the dismay of golfers standing over a three-foot putt?

86. What the names were of the following Leeds Streets until 1947: Evergreen Road, Mulberry Street, Dimock Street, Audubon Road?

87. When the owner of Grant Paper Products suddenly disappeared and wasn't located for several years? When the FBI notified Hamp's Police Chief several years later that he had been arrested for vagrancy in Las Vegas?

88. What the name of the industry was that sponsored the Leeds Drum Corps?

89. Which one of the following was not a name of the Leeds area before the adoption of "Leeds": Shepherd's Hollow, Factory Village, Mill River Gulch, Rail Hill School District, Straw Hollow?

90. Where the location was of the close second choice for building the "new" Leeds School in 1950?
90a. What is located there now?

91. In what year was the spectacular anniversary celebration held marking the adoption of the name "Leeds" and the start of the post office?

92. Who the golfing family was at the Northampton Country Club that produced four golf professionals?

93. The member of that family who became a nationally renowned pro who was once the leading money winner on the PGA Tour?

94. When the abandoned school building called the "big" building was used for the OVDCH. What did OVDCH stand for? (Hint: it was a sheltered workshop.)

95. On what new street was "The House of Vision" built. (Hint: it was on Yankee Hill.)

96. What the name was of Northampton's newest industry that opened in January of 1957?

97. Where carnival tents were made in Leeds beginning in 1963

98. Where filter plants were manufactured in Leeds for decades beginning in the middle 1950's?

99. The name of the business which had a fifteen foot "tin man" in front of the shop on Haydenville Road?

100. And finally: May 23, 1959, another date that will live in infamy. What happened in Leeds on that fateful day?
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