Seven Come Eleven - Survey Monkey is on a Roll

Here is the second set of seven Survey Monkey questions recently posted.  Were your guesses among the correct ones?  Take a look:

1. In the 1950s, Don Sherwood's future wife Dolly's dog "Spot" attacked and bit a little boy who encroached too near "Spot's" territory. This little boy turned out to be:

Jack Bresee
Will Bookhout was the unlucky young man.  All but one respondent got it correct.
John Steidel
Bob Roman

2. Though Bresee's Oneonta Department Store was virtually an institution in Oneonta, it eventually became a white elephant as shoppers took their business to large malls and super discount stores many miles from the downtown commercial district. How many years did Bresee's operate before the classic old time department store went the way of so many others like it in city after city across the nation?

25 years
40 years
60 years
100 years is a long time.  It was tied with 60 years, not such a long time.


3. Lothar Fieg was chairman of the city service board when he oversaw the development of and laid the cornerstone for the construction of Oneonta's water filtration plant on East Street. To this day, Lothar's name appears on a plaque in the building, along with other city notables who were involved at the project's inception, including the man for whom the building is named:
Don Sherwood
Albert Ferrone
Mayor Roger G. Hughes was the man, as over half of you knew.  What, are you from Oneonta or something?
Frank Bresee


4. Because of her regal bearing, culture and position in the community, this woman's hiring by Bresee's as a sales associate in the fashions department was a matter of pride not only for the Bresee brothers but for co-workers Marina Fieg and others of a more common station. This 1936 graduate of Hartwick College was:

Mrs. Albert Ferrone
Mrs. Robert Taylor
Mrs. Roger G. Hughes is correct, though every person received at least one vote.
Mrs. Don Sherwood


5. After the death of Mayor Roger G. Hughes, his wife Nella:

Left town for Florida and was never heard from again.
Became the first woman to be elected mayor.
Remarried and became the new Mrs. Don Sherwood after he divorced his first wife Dolly.
Retired in Oneonta, dying last year at age 95.  The vast majority knew this one -- what, are you from Oneonta or something?

6. Bresee's Oneonta Department Store made headlines when:

Zippy, a popular television chimpanzee, made an appearance there in 1955.
An second floor escalator was added in 1952.
The original 19th century red brick front was covered by an aluminum facade in 1959.
All of the above.   That was one hoppin' department store as over 71% of you knew.  I suspect that you are from Oneonta or something.


7. At the age of 4, Greg Fieg was riding down the escalator with his mother when the contraption malfunctioned and abruptly halted, nearly throwing him and a half dozen other riders down its sharp folding beltway steps. The lad was prevented from a serious fall when:

He and his mother Marina stepped off the bottom step just as the machinery failed.
He was hurled into the heavy black trusses of two nuns riding in front of him.
His mother's companion caught him by his little necktie.  This must have become family lore as it was the most popular answer.
He jumped over the railing to the "up" elevator.