Here's a classic Bluffton centennial photo; Seated and beardless is Gerald "Tuffy" Swank, Bluffton barber. Standing behind him are the Mericle brothers, Dick, Bill and Gene.
Charles Hilty took this photo. Here's his comments:
Note that Tuffy didn't have a beard. Did he not grow one for the Centennial, or is this is posed photo taken just after the celebration ended and he's already shaved at home and the Mericle brothers have come in to get their beards shaved?
Leland Gerber took this photo in the lawn of the Lloyd and Ferne Ramseyer home on Grove Street. (Mike and Mary Edmiston home today). The photo includes several Bluffton faculty wives and staff member. As for a year, our best guess is late 1960s.
We encourage Icon viewers to help with the identification in this photo.
Here's a St. John's United Church of Christ confirmation class from the early 1960s. Although we recognize most of the persons in the photo, we will invite Icon viewers to do the official identifications. Leland Gerber took the photo.
We see Augsburgers, Swanks, an Everett, Greding, King, Tschantz and others.
Not much appears to have changed at the Suter Cider Press between Bluffton and Pandora. Here's a color slide taken by Paul Diller in the early 1950s.
Looks like a early 1950s-Ford, GMC truck, Chrysler (?), and perhaps a Studebaker in line for cider. Icon viewers may correct our automobile identifications.
Examine this photo carefully. It's a model. The Bluffton Western Terminal Railroad (Dr. Boyd W. Travis) was an O gauge model railroad located in the Travis home on Kibler Street. Here is a close up of one of the coal cars on the railroad. (Collection of Fred Steiner)
Leland Gerber took this photo of a local estate sale. Clyde Warren, holding the glass bowl, is the auctioneer. It appears that a woman on the left just bid on the bowl.
Look closely at the crowd. Doesn't that look like Gerald Huber with black-framed glasses to the left of Warren?
We do not know the location or the date of the photo, but the clothing hints at late '60s or early 1970s.
