Our best guess is that this is either opening day of The Charles Co. in Bluffton, or on a stretch, one of Bluffton's Dollar Day sales. Leland Gerber took the photo.
The Charles Co., 108-110 S. Main St., was located where Citizens National Bank lobby stand today. Above it at one time was The Iron Lantern Restaurant.
Millager's Pharmacy eventually replaced The Charles Company when it closed.
Viewers with other observations of this photo are welcome to comment. Our guess on a year is early to mid-1950s.
Here's an interesting aerial photograph of Bluffton prior to the 1960s. The Leland Gerber photo shows College Hall and the Musselman Library. Notice that a drive way is between the library and College Hall.
Also, the library lacks its 1960-era addition. There is no parking lot behind College Hall. Mosiman Hall was probably not yet built.
We invite Icon viewers to offer more observations.
Here's a Leland Gerber black and white photo of a women's sports team from the Triplett company. Senior Icon viewers, please help us to identify these women and, if it is a team sport, share some information for other viewers.
I may get in trouble for posting this photo. You'll soon figure out why.
This photo represents some of the members of the eventual Bluffton High School graduating class of 1968.
This is Elfrieda Howe's private kindergarten during the 1955-56 school year. It is located at 118 S. Spring St. Today it is the Jon and Sally Weaver Sommer residence. It was a morning kindergarten.
The ghost of schools past stands proudly at the end of Church Street. the Victorian beauty served the students of Bluffton from the 1880s to the early 1950s.
This is a copy of a Will Triplett glass plate negative taken prior to 1900.
Viewer comments are welcome. (There are no class lists on the front doors.)
Kathleen Mikkelsen provided this Stauffer family photo.
Seated are Isaac and Catherine Herr Stauffer. Standing from left are their children, Ruth Stauffer Stuckey, Chester Stauffer, Raymond Stauffer, Mabel Stauffer Minck, Howard Stauffer, Emmet Stauffer and Florence Stauffer Hamilton.
Each of the children graduated from Bluffton High School. The family lived on South Lawn Avenue in the home where Basil and Rosemary Meyer live today (152 S. Lawn Ave.)
