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Originally Posted by Hickory Hill Hoff
Sounds good, I was up that way last weekend. Had a "big score" at the old Little Falls OTB on the hill in 1990. When they moved to the strip mall downtown, wagered there Travers day '93 when the machines went down at the F.P. branch. There was some sort of fire there a few year's later Kentucky Derby, then they closed. The new Herkimer branch is like a closet LOL!
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Hick, that yellow funeral home across from the old LF OTB on the hill, was where I grew up every summer and all scholl vacations, that was my grandparents. I used to walk the 50 yards from the front door over to the parlor. Actually the closing of the LF Otb is a tale of bitter irony. The manager of the LF OTB for years was Tommy Hyla. He retired after 25 years. He went to the new place in the strip mall on Derby Day and pulled in front of the place, he hit the gas instead of the brake and put the car through the window. Miraculously noone was hurt. But the place wasn't doing much business and it gave OTB an excuse to close it. Tommy is like teh nicest guy in the world, but hes been forever cursed out since then, had he not bashed the place it would still be open, now we have to drive to Herkimer. How ironic is that? The only manager the place had for 25 years causes the closing of the parlor in town on Ky Derby day no less. I STILL am angry that there is no parlor there. Bastard.