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Home / Articles / Editorial / Letters / Old BellaVino building has a lot more history than just as stable
Wednesday, February 1,2012
Old BellaVino building has a lot more history than just as stable
To the Editor:
As a teenager hanging out with my cousin on Stimson Avenue, I remember well the BellaVino building in question and another building beside it. In the '50s, it was Bobby Decker's welding shop and later a bicycle shop. Then later it was a Harley Davidson motorcycle shop owned by Bill Kotyan. A person named Chuck lived in what is now BellaVino. It was a carryout service on the side, income to pay his way through college.
In 1958, after Abdella's Bowling Team won the Nelsonville championship, Chuck, who was a member of our team, hosted a bowling party to celebrate our victory at his home, the current BellaVino building where Phillip Schloss worked as a stable boy many years before. These are my memories of BellaVino and the boys who played on Stimson Avenue. As stated before in letters to the editor, it is very historic as far back as stables for horses. It would be a mistake to destroy another piece of Athens history to build more apartments for students.
Kenneth Sams
Athens
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