Survey Monkey Celebrates Big Black Jack Win

Here is the last set of seven Survey Monkey questions from the recent Fiegfamily questionnaire.  Hope you did well!

1. Bresee's public rest rooms were memorable in Oneonta for: 

• A uniformed attendant who offered towels and fragrance to customers.
• Lounge chairs, a sofa, ashtrays and telephones.
• Toilet stalls with a slot that required payment of a nickel to enter.  If you don't remember the pay toilet in department stores and other buildings, envision little kids desperately crawling under the door before an accident happened.  Half of the respondents chose this answer, half the one above it.
• French style Bidets.  

2. Bresee's is often remembered for its popular "Health Bar," a typical 20th century lunch counter where diners could order not only a tasty and economical lunch, but catch up with the day's events as they chatted with one another across looping, U-shaped counters that criss-crossed the room. Long after they became anachronisms, virtually unique beverages from the turn of the century were still being offered as standard fare at the Health Bar. These delicious fizzy drinks, forerunners of modern soda pop, were known as: 

• Strawberry, lemon and chocolate phosphates.  Yum!  62.5% got it right.
• Sarsparilla.
• Mineral water.
• All of the above.  

3. The ingredients for a Bresee's strawberry egg cream included all but one of the following:

• Eggs, which any self-respecting New Yorker should know, though only 3 of 8 Fieg respondents did!
• Ice cream
• Strawberry syrup
• Seltzer  

4. When Frank Bresee opened his store in 1899, Coca Cola had been on the market for many years and contained this special invigorating ingredient, which was deleted from the recipe four years later:

• Cocaine.  Those people knew how to enjoy life!  Congrats to the 75% who were correct.
• Codeine
• Caffeine
• None of the above. 

5. The beginning of the end arrived for Bresee's with the establishment of Jamesway, a discount shopping center located east of town. When the shopping center opened, a Bresee's executive was caught in the aisles writing down the prices of merchandise. This interloper was asked by Jamesway to: 

• Submit a list of Bresee's prices in exchange.for the information he took.
• Leave the premises immediately.  Gee, what grouchy people at Jamesway....  Half of you knew this -- has it happened to you too?
• Apply for a job because the new store was shorthanded.
• None of the above.  

6. Anna Perry, an almost iconic Fieg neighborhood personage who lived until approximately age 90, arrived from Sherburne by electric trolly car shortly after the turn of the century, and, having graduated from Oneonta Normal School, became a school teacher. She joined the Bresee's sales staff after she retired from education at the age of 65. Because she never had a driver's license, she typically covered the near two-mile distance from North Sixth Street to the store:

• On horseback
• By taxi cab
• By bus
• On foot.  Now we complain of having to walk 75 paces into Wal-Mart from the parking lot!  Everyone knew this one. 

7. After divorcing him, Robert Bresee's ex-wife married local educator and Fieg acquaintance Jim Couden, who looked enough like a certain Hollywood matinee idol that he could be mistaken for him. In fact, Jim and this actor shared the same part in a Hollywood motion picture, Jim playing the part as a little boy and the actor finishing the role as an adult. The actor was:

• Robert Taylor
• Tyrone Power.  Who's he?  Half of you voted for Robert Taylor -- red herring!!
• George Montgomery
• Dale Robertson