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My best find that day was a gross of latex balloons packaged in neat little boxes

What Rudi Steiner says he found in a Main Street alley in the mid 1950s
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2021 - 9:36pm

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What Rudi Steiner found in a Main Street alley in the 1950s -  The alley, which runs parallel to Main Street and Jackson Street, was another of the great Bluffton alleys of the 1950s.

This was the longest of the alleys I travelled. It ran from behind the high school all the way down to Riley Street. This alley always had really good stuff thrown out by Bluffton merchants.

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James Pannabecker recalls a spanking from Miss Groman

"In Kindergarten some of us went to Crow's because they were giving away free balloons"
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 28, 2021 - 10:06pm

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James Pannabecker remembers: In Kindergarten, some of us went to Crow's because they were giving away free balloons.

When we returned, Miss Groman asked everyone who went to Crow's to stand up. I didn't stand, but went to Crow's. Everyone who stood up received a spanking.

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Dave Bracy's number 1 trout catch

I asked dad what number it was and I thought he was going to have a heart attack right then and there.
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2021 - 10:44pm

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Dave Bracy recalls:  During the 1974 derby, I was fishing with my family in our usual spot, right across from the shelter house. Halfway through the derby I suddenly got a hit on my daredevil lure.

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Ron Edinger...paddled in high school

And participated in a history-making Panama flyover
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 26, 2021 - 9:40pm

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Interview with Ron Edinger – I grew up in the second house from the county line on Main Street. My brothers are Jim, Jerry and Dick.

I was just another face in the crowd at Bluffton High School. I played baseball and for one season, football.

I was paddled following a high school assembly, either as a sophomore or junior. Actually, the entire row was paddled.

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A Bluffton-John Dillinger story you never heard before

A small, mysterious business was opened in that room (reference to the rear of 101 N. Main St.) by a guy from out of town not long before the Dillinger gang came to town
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 9:21pm

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A Bluffton John Dillinger story from Charles Hilty that you've never heard - 

A story told to me by my father was that a small, mysterious business was opened in that room (reference to the rear of 101 N. Main St.) by a guy from out of town not long before the Dillinger gang came to town.

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Our generation in the covid-19 era

We aren't the first to experience this; it's just a different name
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 25, 2021 - 2:43pm

By Fred Steiner
It is a certainty that “The Covid-19 Era” will resonate with us as “The Great Depression” did with our parents and grandparents. 

The message “never throw anything away because you never know when you might need it,” is among the what-did-your Depression era grandparents and parents teach their Baby Boomers children?

That Great Depression generation’s continual reminder that things may be great today, but, once upon a time that wasn’t the case, can only mean they experienced something that we know very little about today.

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