Out with the old, in with the new

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Workers began renovating the vacant restaurant building across from Anvil International, on Route 462, today.  The building will eventually house the offices of a used car dealership. 




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Anonymous said…
That building had a lot of shiny stuff on it.


March 17, 2014 at 7:22 PM
Anonymous said…
Trivia: This building was once a Uni-mart and Pennsupreme Dairy Store Anyone remember what was on this lot prior to this building.
March 18, 2014 at 11:20 PM
Anonymous said…
A & W Root Beer??? I loved that place!!
March 19, 2014 at 9:54 AM
Joe Lintner said…
A & W was at 15th Street and 462.
March 19, 2014 at 3:10 PM
Joe Lintner said…
The Sunoco station used to be Rube's ARCO. I don't know what the restaurant was before it was Pensupreme and Uni-Mart.
March 19, 2014 at 3:15 PM
Anonymous said…
This property was once a service station. Toward the end it was a Phillips 66 station. The property, and much of the nearby property, was owned by George and Elizabeth Horn until the mid 70's when Mrs. Horn passed away and willed her estate, and that of her late husband, to various family members. Of note, according to the most current deed and restrictions attached to it, the property cannot be used for the purpose of a gasoline and/or automobile service station for the next 30 years, among other restricted uses. Nothing I saw in the deed prevents it from being a used car lot.

I will always remember the Uni-Mart and their crazy good fried chicken!
March 19, 2014 at 6:05 PM
Joe Lintner said…
Thanks for that information. Very interesting. I wonder why there are restrictions on the property being used as a service station. I also wonder if the owners were part of the same family that owned Horn Chevrolet.
March 19, 2014 at 6:21 PM
Anonymous said…
As I recall, a church in kinderhook once had a pastor by the name of Horn. Any connection there?
March 19, 2014 at 6:27 PM
Anonymous said…
Yes, it is the same Horn from Horn Chevrolet. The Horns were examples of what once made Columbia a great town. Not sure about the pastor connection in Kinderhook.

Not sure about the restrictions on the property but the prior owner was Leemilts Petroleum Inc so I would have to imagine there is some connection to that.
March 19, 2014 at 9:30 PM
Anonymous said…
I sure do miss our Columbia historian, the late Fred Abendschein. He could tell you the history of almost every building in this borough!
March 19, 2014 at 10:52 PM
Anonymous said…
deed restrictions don't stick - because who is there to enforce the deed restriction ?

CG
March 19, 2014 at 11:26 PM
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