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Liz Gordon-Hancock shares this photo with Icon viewers. She found it ebay.

If you think Bluffton parades are well attended today, look at this photo showing an early 1900s parade. The crowd is four people deep on one side and even more crowded on the other side.

We don’t k­­now the purpose or exact year of this parade, however here are some observations.

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This is Main Street Bluffton in the mid-1940s. 

There is a 1938 Chevy parked in from of the A and P. There is a newer Chrysler product, probably a 1945-46 model also in the photo. Plus, there's no Shannon Theatre – it wasn't built yet.

Lots of other things to notice:
• Gas pump on the far left side of the photo
• The Charles Company where Citizens National Bank is today
• One stoplight at the Cherry-Main intersection
• Notice the street lamps
• Notice the condition of the sidewalks

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Here's the Bluffton High School jazz band from the 2003-04 school year.

• Front row: Eric Blevins, Tyler Baderstcher, Cara Gudakunst

• Middle row: Anne Steiner, Joy Savage, Alan Way, Jessica Ramey, Mary Miller

• Back row: Aaron Yoder, Joel Gundy, Adam Phillips, Matt Mummert, Dan Stratton, Joel Reichenbach, Annalisa Harder

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Thanks to Joel Groman, who put names on faces! Here's the Bluffton sixth grade academic team from 2003-04 school year. Chad Matthewson was the team coach.

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Here's the Bluffton High School alumni jazz band in a 2004 performance with Dave Sycks directing.

• Saxes from left, Jesse Henry '96, David Stratton '01, Peter Bixel '98, Andy Eddinger '00, Ben Hohenbrink '98

• Trombones from left, Brian Barry '96, Jacob Boehr '01, Amanda (Doty) Morrison '02

• Trumpets from left, Travis Unterbrink '96, Ben Harmon '01, Katie (Fultz) Ochoa '96

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Twenty-one-year-old Stanton Steiner poses with his first, and probably the family’s first motor car.

It’s  a 1924 or ’25 Ford Model T “Doctors” Coupe. The picture was taken in a barnyard on his parent’s farm on Columbus Grove Road midway between Pandora Road and State Route 696. His parents were Sam and Sarah (Neuenschwander) Steiner.

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