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Show This text message is used to keep the image from rotating in ocr process. Be sure to crop the top .25" off after the ocr process. -IJ$~ CTUI PRESS ASSOCIA TIO:,\ Clippin1( Sen'ice Phone: (80 I) 328-8678 ~AG:-lA TIMES 031 12 l The Magna Times. Thursday, March 5, 1992 I .-:::-," .... £:;;nts remember Rock Springs ball teammates wben they came in "Old man Falvo and the Colosimos after a game and Nick would often were the same," said one fellow. TIley throw a hunk of meat on the barbe- kept a lot of beUies full during the que. Others wOO1d pitch in and anyone depression and when the mines could belp themselves to the fresh closed. Rock Springs isn't around today. roasted meat. .: "For years, they roasted a whole Neither are fat 01' Nick or quiet Erlamb for the Greek Easter holiday," nie. About all one can see to remind said Jim Brusatto. them of Rock Springs are beer ca ps "Even the good Monnons would mashed into years of summercome down and sit and talk and drink warmed asphalt, but the friendships a soda pop," he said. " I liked to go they cultivated and the memories down and talk to John, he used to sit they planted remain in the hearts of by the old potbelly stove. How they the folks who frequented their heated. We didn't have gas in Magna' hang-out. 'til 1949." Magna residents depended on Kochonis' coal for many years until a gas line was put through town and the mills cut down on coal use. Ask any Magna old-timer, or middle-timers for that matter, about Rock Springs. 'Ibeir mouths turn up at the comers and the crows feet grow at the corner of tlleir eyes as a twinkle begins to glow in a far away look ... unless they are female. Laura Jo McDermaid's dad wouldn't let her go near the place, and often an angry wife would call~ Ioolting lor a lost husband . ;. But Rock Springs "wasn't like a I beer joint because they sold . groceries," said Genevie Talbot. It was one that carried a lot of people through when hard times hit Magna. i I |
