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August 1963 - downtown Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 16, 2016 - 5:26pm

It's August 1963 - a warm summer day in downtown Bluffton. Dick Boehr took this photo and let's name the businesses from right to left:

• Basinger Furniture - today The Black Lab
• Western Auto - today Diller's Flooring
• Swank's Meat Market - today The Dough Hook
• Walter Gratz's shoe store - today Fortman Insurance
• Waltermire's - today Sielschott, Keifer, Walsh, Regula CPAs
* Hauenstein Bakery - today The Sports Warehouse
• Greding Hardware - today Family True Value Hardware

 

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Your probably know someone in this picture

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 9, 2016 - 7:48pm

Here's the Bluffton High School class of 1956 during the 1953-54 school year when they were sophomores. This year the class celebrates its 60th reunion.

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1948 Bluffton school board members

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 29, 2016 - 12:31pm

Members of the Bluffton school board in 1948 are from left, Paul Diller, Norman Triplett, Carl Derringer (standing), James West, clerk; Levi Althaus (standing), and Leland Diller, board president. 

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Were you in Bluffton HS's Hi-Y?

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 19, 2016 - 5:55pm

A club that no longer exists in Bluffton schools is Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y. Both groups were open to sophomores through seniors and were related to YMCAs. Here are the girl Hi-Y members at BHS during the 1959-60 school year.

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1959 Methodist celebration

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 11, 2016 - 8:41am

In 1959 First United Methodist Church observed its 125th anniversary. Here is the anniversary committee.

From left, Mrs. Clarence Gleason, Forrest Steinman, Mrs. Hiram Huser and the Rev. James Heininger.

Standing from left E. James Szabo and A.J.B. Longsdorf. Mr. Longsdorf and Mrs. Huser co-chaired the committee.

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These kids grew up in the Great Depression

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 4, 2016 - 6:03pm

Here's the Bluffton High School class of 1951 as sophomores - taken during the 1948-49 school year. They were born in the early 1930s and experienced the Great Depression as youngsters.

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