Volume 2 Issue 2 June 1998 Page 1
Jim Hartman
I apologize to everyone in the Hartman families about being slack in preparing our monthly journals. I will be trying to get everything back on-line so everyone can enjoy them.
Of course I will need input from everyone, as usual, because this makes our journal a special thing for everyone.
In case you were wondering why they were not coming out for the past year, here's why…. I tried to put a business together in West Mifflin. It was a computer business known as JAVA-CONNECT which had everything to do with computers - such as Internet Presence providing, Computer Instruction, and selling of custom made computers along with computer consulting. It just didn't take off like I thought it would. There was business, but not quite enough to pay the bills! Rent, employee wages, etc. just took its toll and I decided it was better to let everyone go their way. But there still is the Internet Presence known as JAVA-CONNECT that is slowly working its way to an area information source for the West Mifflin/Mon Valley Area. If you have a computer (which many of us in the family do now) please feel free to drop bye, the address is if you add Hartman you will connect with our Family Page. I invite everyone to drop bye and take a look.
NEXT ISSUE THERE WILL BE PICTURES OF THE 50th ANNIVERSARY PARTY IN THE NEWSLETTER -
Go out to Aunt Catherine and Uncle Joe Little on their upcoming 50th wedding anniversary. They will be celebrating on Saturday June 20, 1998 with a Mass at St. Mary Magdalene Church Amity St. Homestead, PA. Followed by a reception at Poli's Restaurant Murray Ave. Squirrel Hill.
THE EARLY YEARS
This article is continued from last year's issue. From tapes that Uncle George sent to me and are transcribed.
I remember the day we got our Victrola. Dad really like music. He had been fooling around with a receiving set, the old fashioned receiver - I remember that it had a coil and a dial, the kind you push up and down on an arm. I remember that once in awhile he would hear something and would have his ear glued to the earphone - he would tell everyone to be quiet so he could hear it. Of course he would keep a type of log of all the things and stations he heard. This was an old crystal set - one of the first. He and Mom like music and they would go to shows occasionally. Then they bought this Victrola - they found that they couldn't get it up the staircase (remember we lived on the second floor apartment). IT WAS JUST TOO BIG! So what Dad did was to construct an arm off the top of the building, and put a block and tackle on it and hoist that Victrola up three stories into out apartment. I remember it well because there were three windows in our apartment. I was looking out the farthest window and watched those men hoist it