From the readers: Memories of Hurr's in Montoursville

(This photo is NOT from the Hurr's on Arch Street in Montoursville. It's the Hurr's on Washington Boulevard in Williamsport, as posted on the East End Gang From Williamsport Pennsylvania Facebook page. It's the photo that most reminds of the cozy interior of the Arch Street Hurr's, of which I can find no photos online.) 

Commenting in the 2018 Papergreat post about the Hurr's Dairy Store on Arch Street in Montoursville (just a stone's throw from our house on Spruce Street), Susan Hooton (Derr) writes (lightly edited): 

"I worked at the Hurr’s Store on N. Arch Street in Montoursville from 1972 to 1976. I lived with my parents in a house between the high school and the Hurr’s store. I would come home from school, change into the mint green uniform, watch the soap opera 'General Hospital,' which I still watch today, and run up the sidewalk to work. June Scott was the manager then and was the kindest person. I remember dime night ice cream cones. The first night of the event I was working alone. I sold out of ice cream. My work area had so much melted, slippery ice cream I could slide on it. Customers would come in with huge mixing bowls and tell me just fill it up.

"I have so many good memories from that time. When I got off at 11:00 p.m., all the neighbors from both sides of the street would watch that I got home OK. I did not know this until a few years later. I was scared because Arch Street was lined with trees from which anyone could jump out at me. Gary Williams did own the building (a double house) at that time. He told me if anyone comes in to try and hurt you or rob you just knock on the wall. Very nice idea but probably not possible. Luckily I never had any problems.

"Hurr’s store also had peanut butter ripple ice cream that I have not been able to find in all (lots) of places I have lived since then.

"Now I am a 69-year-old widow living in Phoenix, Arizona. 🔥🥵☀️

"I would love to chat with anyone who might remember anything from that time. My last name then was Derr."

Thanks for taking the time to share these memories, Susan! This is the most specific remembrance I've come across regarding the Arch Street location. There's a good chance I was in the store at some point when you were working from 1972 to 1976, as we lived right around the corner in the mid 1970s. I hadn't remembered the mint-green uniforms, so that's a neat detail. Peanut butter ripple remains one of my favorite types of ice cream and I agree that a quality version of that ice cream is difficult to find. And what a coincidence that we were both in Montoursville in the mid 1970s and now we're in Arizona: you in Phoenix and me down here in Florence.