Thank you so much for your reply! Andrew Pavelko was born in Rakos, Slovakia and the rest of his family came over in January 1921. On the ship manifest for his wife and daughter he said that they were going to him at Roscoe, PA. That is how I knew to look for him there in the 1920 census. I will go back and look at the families around him. By the time that his son Andrew was born in December 1921, the family had moved to Scott's Run where he had been offered the job of manager of the Coal Company store. I don't know how long he had the store there in Roscoe. Vickie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eva Dayle Zippay" <evadayle@yahoo.com> To: "Gary & Vickie Pavelko" <gpavelko@labyrinth.net> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:05 AM Subject: Re: [PAMONVAL] Roscoe, PA confectionary --- Gary & Vickie Pavelko <gpavelko@labyrinth.net> wrote: > I found my husband's grandfather, Andrew Pavelko in > the 1920 Washington County, PA census in Roscoe on > Lynn St. His occupation is listed as owner of a > confectionary. Hi, My family has owned a home on Lynn St. in Roscoe since 1895--no one else has ever lived there. I lived there until I was 9. (in the 40s and early 50s.) Lynn St. is only about 3 blocks long, and is the last street before the river--it overlooks the river. My family (Hamilton) owns the very last house on the north end of Lynn St. on the east side--nearest the river. The Lytle family (which has also been on Lynn St. since the beginning of Roscoe) lived towards the south end and on the opposite side. (This is just to give you an idea exactly where your grandfather may have lived if you can locate him near either one of those families.) When I was a child there were still vacant lots on Lynn St. but that is not the case today. I also recall a candy store. I don't know if this could be your grandfather's or not, but it was Rossel's store then. It was very small, part of a house, and it gave the impression of being a very old building. The store part was very narrow, more like a hallway than anything else, with a wooden floor. There was just one long inverted L-shaped counter that separated 2 narrow corriders--one for the customer and the other for the salesperson. The leg of the L provided the barrier between the store and the house, and I remember that a curtain hung in the doorway to the living quarters, separating it from the store. There was no door, and the door to the outside was kept unlocked, at least during store hours. I remember that nothing else was sold in that store besides candy, and I always had the impression that it had been there for a very long time. The store was on the north side of Wayne St., which is perpendicular to Lynn St., and it was between the Moose Lodge and the old movie theater. I hope this helps some. If I learn anything else I'll forward the information to the list. Eva in Tallahassee, Fl. ===== Eva Dayle Zippay Tallahassee, Florida evadayle@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/