Recalling the good old days in Cedar

Letter by Phyllis Sbonek Carnahan, Sept 5, 2000 an excerpt from “Remembering Solon: A community and family history of Solon Township.”

Cedar has, of course, in the passage of time, changed a great deal. When I was little there was a hotel uptown, where the gas station is now. It was run by Frank Schramski, who was also the town’s barber. His handy man’s name was Walter and he only had one arm.

Cedar had a doctor, a druggist, a drugstore, a blacksmith shop, a railroad and depot, pickle warehouses, a big store owned by my father which burned in 1925; a bank, and best of all, a wonderful school which was the center of town life.