2/23/2021
Bucko’s secret to 100 years? Chocolate – any kind
Eleanor Bucko, a lifelong Pawtucket resident who turned 100 years old last Friday, Feb. 19, used to ride a horse from Cottage Street to Walcott Street back in the 1940s when there weren’t as many cars on the road.
PAWTUCKET – In 1942, 21-year-old Eleanor Bucko would ride a horse from Cottage Street to Walcott Street in Pawtucket, during a time when there weren’t many cars on the road. The animal belonged to her boss, who let her take it out for exercise, the lifelong Pawtucket resident said.
“You would never dare try to do (that) today,” she told The Breeze last Friday, Feb. 19, the day of her 100th birthday. “But everything was much slower.”