TWO CENTS: Pat Burkhouse of Bradford wrote to us to say, “I, too, have comments on several things brought out in Round the Square.”

Regarding the Alpine ice cream shop/restaurant that used to sit on Main Street, Pat told us it was best in town for ice cream, while the South Bradford Dairy Bar was the best place for hamburgers.

Pat remembers Curtis Tracy, too, who owned the Alpine. We had a photo of him in our column recently.

“I knew Mr. Tracy personally (and his family). I was his secretary at the vocational department of the high school for several years. Never a better boss to work for. Great personality for that job.”

Not far from the Alpine were a couple of other businesses she remembered fondly.

“The hat store was close by the Alpine,” wrote Pat. “All women and girls wore hats — especially at Easter,” she said. Additionally, “There was a small store on the corner of Kennedy and Main streets. She sold costume jewelry and handkerchiefs — which was a great Christmas gift in the those years — the 30s and 40s.”

Reading about people making clothes from animal feed bags also brought back memories for Pat. At that time, the bags were made from printed cotton.

She wrote, “As a teenager, we made lots of clothes from feed bags. I still have some.”

We wonder if anyone else still has their homemade feed bag clothes?

George Farrell of Limestone, N.Y., remembered another Alpine employee.

Richard “Dick” Miller worked as a chef at the Alpine around 1949, George said.

Dick eventually got a job as a police officer with the Bradford City Police Department, then went on to become McKean County sheriff.

George told us this was while he was working at a small grocery store, which he said is where the bank is now located on Congress Street.

ZIPPO SIGHTING: Clayton Vecellio of Lewis Run called us recently with another Zippo lighter sighting.

Clayton said on “Hogan’s Heroes” — that television show from the 1960s and early 1970s — had an episode in which Col. Klink “lit a piece of paper with a Zippo lighter.”