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Bluffton High School had girls' basket 85 seasons ago. Here's proof. This is the 1930-31 girls' team. Player names read from the top left to right. This squad was pretty good, with a 10-3-1 record.

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This is Bluffton's Main Street in 1950. While the names have changed, the storefronts look pretty familiar.

This photo is from the digital collection of the Bluffton Public Library. The woman is unidentified - until an Icon viewer and give us a name.

Among the businesses visible in the background are the Carma Theatre at 121 S. Main and the A & P Food Store, which is now Town and Country Flowers.

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Here's Bluffton High School in the winter at the corner of Main and College. The photo on the left, in black and white, with a 1941 (?) Chevrolet coupe parked on Main, is from the 1951 BHS yearbook.

The Icon's attempt to photography the same scene is the result on the right in color. At the bottom of this story you will find individual photos from 1951 and 2016.

What's different? - Not a much.

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Here's the Bluffton High School marching and concert band from the 1950-51 high school yearbook - that's 65 school years ago.

You may find yourself, your parents or even grandparents in this photo. Click to enlarge. The photo was taken on the old gymnasium stage. And, yes, Earl Lehman was director.

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Some things never change. Only the location.

Here's a Bluffton High School pep rally during the 1955-56 school year. The only difference between this photo and a pep rally today is that today's rallies are in the new gym. 

But, like 1955-56, today friends and classmates sit together. (Maybe boys' sock styles have change over the year.)

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Members of the Bluffton High School class of 1948 posed as sophomores in the 1946 Buccaneer - 70 yearbooks ago.

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