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Date Posted: 10:25:49 10/09/10 Sat
Author: Anne Oldtymer
Subject: Re: Karpeles Museum
In reply to: Mrs. Ewing 's message, "Re: Karpeles Museum" on 00:17:39 10/09/10 Sat

I thank Mrs. Ewing and G.A. for publicly caring so much about this. I had so much business with the NSB even as a young timer. I remember how very small I used to feel when I went in there to deposit my allowance of a whole 50 cents or birthday gifts of $1.00 or sometimes a whole wopping $5.00! I felt the $5.00 put me up there with the big spenders back then. Those ceilings seemed to be the floor of Heaven they were so high. And the echo of all the people talking and papers shuffling made it feel like a cathedral to the big gods. I was such a little scooter back then. It hurt me terribly when NSB left the world. But over the years I could go by the building and it gave me some confidence that things would get better because the cathedral was still there. Things would get better soon. But Columbus Trust was almost demolished. The Palatine went to the wreckers. The Liberty St. school crumbled. The Dutch Reform Church went. The old synagogue on So. William is no longer. So much just goes. We've had committees and commissions over the years that promised to preserve so much but not too much comes of it. 40 years ago we were promised a rebuilding of the waterfront too. Big business was coming. I finally stopped waiting. Now I don't believe anybody and truth is I'm about as faded as my old NSB savings passbook. My ink is fading and I wonder why I should trust the CAC or ARC or anybody any more. Can you assure me Mrs. Ewing that this time will be different? I'd really like to know. Thank you from a Newburgh relic who's still around looking out the window in what seems to becoming a dustbowl of the past. I don't mean any disrespect let me tell you. I just would like to know. Thank you.

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