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Historical Bluffton

1973 BHS track team

Here's the Bluffton High School boys' track team dring the 1973 school year.

Bowling in downtown Bluffton

If you can find Stratton's Recreation Hall you might be able to bowl a game or two. This advertisement from the 1942 Bluffton College Ista says you can "tally in our alley."

Here's how to find the recreation hall. Look for the steps leading to a basement next to the Shannon Theatre on Main Street. Today it is the office for the United Auto Works (UAW) union, involving employees at Tower Automotive.

 

 

93 school years ago - Bluffton College girls' glee club

Niswander, Amstutz, Sprunger, Habeggar, Gerber, Ramseyer, Diller, Steiner and Bixel are among the familiar Bluffton and Pandora area last names in this photo. It's the Bluffton College girl's glee club taken from the 1926 college yearbook, the Ista.93

Home economics lab 101 school years ago

It's the Bluffton College home economics laboratory 101 school years ago. This photo and the description is from the 1918 Bluffton College Ista.

101 girls' college basketball seasons ago

Here's the 1918 Bluffton College women's basketball team and a summary of the season from the colleege yearbook, The Ista.

Bluffton High School 1911

You don't need to be ancient to recognize this building. But, you do have to be nearly 35 (at the youngest) to recognize it.

This is the 1911 Bluffton High School building. This photograph was taken before the current "old section of the high school" was even in the dream stage.

Where was it? Stand at the St. John's United Church of Christ corner of College Avenue and Jackson Street and gaze toward the current high school.

Somewhere in the mist, you'll see it.

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