REST STOP: Jerry Boser of South Bradford remembers stopping at the public restroom in Veterans Square as a child.

“I was about 5. Dad had an egg route in Bradford,” Jerry said, noting the two of them would make the route together. “That was our restroom stop.”

He recalled having to go down 10 or 12 steps to get to the bathrooms under the pavilion, and there was a men’s restroom and a women’s restroom.

ELEVATORS:A couple of people have tried to guess when the Odd Fellows Building stopped having an elevator operator.

Ron Mascioni tells us he worked as an electrician in the Odd Fellows building in 1968-69.

“We put new elevators in the building in 1969,” Ron said, explaining that the new elevators may not have needed operators.

However, former Bradford resident Bruce Haight said his father, Ed Haight used to run the elevator in the building, and he believes it was around 1973-74. A man named Mr. Stroup ran it during the day, Bruce recalls.

Bruce was in high school at the time, and remembers working as a dishwasher at the Congress Street diner. Then, when his shift was over, he’d go to the Odd Fellows Building to borrow his dad’s car.

He’d run around town for a bit, then come back to pick up his father when he finished his own shift.

According to Bruce, the elevator had a handle that you moved one way to go up and the other way to go down. You opened the gates and doors by hand.

His father and Mr. Stroup both took the jobs as elevator operators after retiring.

By that point, the Odd Fellows weren’t in the building anymore; instead, it was mostly doctors’ offices, Bruce recalled.