It's January 1965. Dick Boehr took this photo of the Stauffer Brother's Pure Oil station at the corner of Main and Elm - directly across from the town hall.
We can't read the gas pumps, but that leaded gas was around 33 cents a gallon.
Today a different building stands there, housing Smith Realty, Padrone's Pizza and Ameriprise.
Here are several observations about this photo and Icon viewers are invited to offer more thoughts.
This was North Main Street Bluffton in the summer of 1963.
You are looking at Curling Iron (Skelly Rexall Drugs), directly south of several buildings that are no longer standing. In their place is Luke's Bar and Grill and the bar and grill's patio.
Peeking at you on the far right side is the PromoHits! building.
Older Icon views (65 and up) can tell us the unnamed buildings in this photo.
Notice the height of the sidewalk. When this photo was taken there was a step up from the sidewalk to the drug store.
Older Bluffton residents knew the Althaus twins - Levi and Willie. Here they are on a 1914-era Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Jesse Steiner took this photo. He was a teacher at the Hilty school (corner of State Route 696 and Columbus Grove Road).
The Althaus brothers attended the school. This photo is from the collection of Alan Eaton, whose grandfather was Jesse Steiner.
Can you believe it? Ninty-nine sports seasons ago.
There was no Western Buckeye League and the Northwest Conference was two generations in the distance.
Here's the Bluffton High School boys' basketball team from 1915-1916. We know the uniforms were red and white, but this team was not yet called Pirates. That would happen about 13 season later.
Don Schmidt provided this photo to the Icon.
Open the photo to view the player names and to enlarge the photo.
Sixty-four school years ago here is the Bluffton High School Girls' Glee Club. This is from the 1950-51 school year. The names of the members are on the photo.
