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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.

On one occasion I collected all kinds of old bottles, corks, tin containers and pillboxes from behind Sidney Hauenstein’s drug store.

My best find that day was a gross of latex balloons packaged in neat little boxes, which I shared with the Jordan brothers and other kids in the neighborhood.

I don’t know what happened to the other kids’ balloons, but mom confiscated mine. It wasn’t until years later that I discovered why.

This is a sample of the content of "Bluffton Anthology - A creek runs through it." Copies are now available for $24.95 plus tax in Bluffton at:
• Roots by Strattons
• The Food Store
• The Black Lab
• Bluffton Senior Citizens Center
• The Dough Hook
• Polished