It was an ordinary day. Told my dear wife that I was going to take a drive to downtown Lancaster to take a few photographs of the place where my dad went to school to learn his trade of being a watch maker. I recently posted a story about Bowman Technical School which was in downtown Lancaster at the corner of East Chestnut and North Duke Streets. My dad was a student at the school after he had returned home from serving his country in the United States Army. He learned just about anything and everything needed to repair any type of watch or time-piece that existed at the time. After learning his trade, he managed to get a job about a block away from Bowman Technical School at a watch and jewelry store on West Chestnut, about two blocks from center-city Lancaster. Store was known as Meiskey's. I can still remember my dad taking me with him to Meiskey's on week-ends to show me what he did and to have me help him do packaging of customers items that had been sent to Meiskey's for repair or cleaning. Well, I decided to make a visit to the new Bowman's to see if it was still the same as it was back in the 1950s and 1960s. A story had been published a week ago in the LNP newspaper telling about the new opening of Bowman's and I just had to see the interior of the building. Found a parking space and parked my car. Hopped out of my car and began the half-block walk to the corner of West Chestnut and North Duke. As I reached for the front door, I realized the place was dark! Sign on the front door told me, and anyone else who may have wanted to see the new store, that the business will not open for another few weeks. After all the stories and photographs published in the newspaper about the new Bowman's Jewelry Store opening this week, and now this! I know it will open sometime in the future, but I was as anxious as anyone to see what the interior of the place looked like and if I might have known anyone who worked there. Oh, well! I guess I can wait another week or two. Headed back to the car and decided to stop at the horse barn which is on the property of Lancaster's Long's Park on the Harrisburg Pike. It's on my way home anyway...so it's not out of the way. Thought I would take a photograph or two of the horses that are housed at the Lancaster Police horse barn that is part of Lancaster's Longs Park which is half-way between my new home at Woodcrest Villas and downtown Lancaster. Wound my way through the park, parked my car once again, and headed to the barn. When I went to enter the area where the horses are kept, I rang the bell and was told no one can have access to the horses anymore. Well, I seemed to have struck-out today, so I got back in my car and headed back home. My wife asked me why I'm home so early and the result is this story that I am sharing with you today. Needless to say...there are no photos to share with you showing the interior of the new store or photos of the horses. At least I got to use my laptop and exercise my fingers! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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