repair garages
Most gas stations had repair garages but not all repair garages were connected with a gas station. And in earliest days, some repair garages had gasoline tanks even though auto repair was their main business.
buchholz garage
Wilbur Buchholz ran this repair shop, with the aid of mechanic Alfred P. Goodenkauf, whose whom was just south of the shop. It is on the north end of Houston Street.
wood garage
In 1922, C. J. Wood had a repair garage:
karas & hubka garage
the karas garage
on the south side of the hotel
the garage on the south end of the hotel
ownership at the time unknown - this is the garage where karas was located at some time. it was built in 1917-8. it is gone now.
the karas garage
On Luzerne
The building was constructed as a livery stable around 1900. On the second floor in the back part of the building was a "hall," a huge room used for dances, meetings, and so on, believed to be theone sometimes referred to as Nemecek Hall. It was the Brace auto repair garage in the late 1920s. After a big fire in 1930 or 1931, which took off the second floor of the back part of the building, it was bought by Rudy V. Karas the Ford man (as opposed to Rudy V. Karas the blacksmith, jokingly called "Dirty" Rudy because of how black his hands were burned over the years). Karas ran the garage for many years. After his death, it sat empty until the Sitzman Brothers were able to buy it.
sitzman repair
Sitzman Repair, on Luzerne, east of the Square, was started in the 1980s by brothers Larry, Robert, and Richard Sitzman. Richard has been sole proprietor for many years now and as of 2018 it is a bustling place.
There was a prior Sitzman Repair on Highway 4, run by Richard's dad Bob Sitzman in the 1960s. The building occupied by the present Sitzman Repair has been used by two previous businesses. The Karas Garage previously occupied the premises and before that it was the Brace Garage. |
reed's garage
south side of the hotel
The Lincoln Hotel complex was built in 1918 with four components -- hotel, theater, retail space with an apartment over it, and, on the south side of the hotel, a garage. The garage was used by various people, and in its last years held a laundromat.
Larry Layden remembers about Vernon Reed then Glen Freeman using that garage space:
Larry Layden remembers about Vernon Reed then Glen Freeman using that garage space:
Here's what I remember about the building that was turned into a laundromat. |
glen freeman's garage
south side of the hotel
Larry Layden remembers:
Glen had a well-stocked garage and was a good mechanic. He had a tire alignment machine made by "BEAR" in the southeast part of the garage and an office and small parts inventory area in the northeast area where the drive-in door was located. He worked on cars in the west side of the garage. I remember he worked on my 1948 Chevrolet coupe and several of my dad's cars. |