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August 1963 - north Main Street Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 29, 2015 - 9:32pm

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. 

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Althaus twins on their 1914-era Harley

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 23, 2015 - 1:40pm

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.

Now for some details about the motorcycle, thanks to the Harley-Davidson Museum, Milwaukee, Wisc.:

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No girl varsity teams in 1950...but there was GAA

Posted by Fred Steiner on June 3, 2015 - 9:42pm

In the era before Title IX, when high school girls didn't compete in varsity sports, there existed the Girls' Athletic Association, known as GAA.

Here's the Bluffton High School GAA members from the 1949-1950 school year, 65 sports seasons ago.

Too bad, we'll never know how many trophies these young women athletes might have earned for BHS.

Names of the students are under the photo.

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99 basketball seasons ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 27, 2015 - 9:50am

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.

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It was the 1950-51 BHS school year

Posted by Fred Steiner on May 12, 2015 - 3:30pm

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. 

Click to enlarge

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Now retired farmers of America

Posted by Fred Steiner on April 29, 2015 - 10:18am

Here's the Bluffton High School Future Farmers of America from the 1956-57 school year. Names of members are on the photo. Wonder what the price of corn was 58 crops ago?

CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE.

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