Many Fond Memories

To the Editor:

I thoroughly enjoyed the photo in The Way We Were (The Newtown Bee, December 11) of the Sandy Hook railroad station. I remember it well. There is a correction to be made, however.

Gallagher’s store was across Glen Road from the station, not next to it, and the portion of Gallagher’s that shows is only the top of the building. To the right of the station the tracks crossed Glen Road –– then Route 6, a main highway.

That overpass was even lower than the one recently replaced on Church Hill Road. Trucks often used Walnut Tree Hill, past my home, to avoid getting stuck under it.

When I started school in 1942 we had to walk to Glen Road and waited for the school bus on Gallagher’s porch. In bad weather Miss Gallagher, an elderly lady, would let us wait inside the store.

Since Gallagher’s was more bar than store, parents, mine included, preferred their children not enter!

Newtown was so different back then and seeing old photos bring back many fond memories.

Betty Saunders Guarino

167 Walnut Tree Hill, Sandy Hook                       December 16, 2003