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Joe Urich could speak every known Bluffton dialect

He was a man-about-town
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 4, 2021 - 9:36pm

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When they get around to listing the 50 most interesting people who ever lived in Bluffton Joe Urich will be on the list.

He’ll be on the list of the 25 most interesting people who lived in Bluffton. There’s a phrase that best describes Joe’s relationship to Bluffton. Joe was a-man-about-town.

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Bill and Don Herr talk about Bluffton rodeos

You had to figure that you had a good chance to be lying on the ground. The risk was getting thrown.
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 3, 2021 - 9:51pm

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Bill and Don Herr talk about Bluffton rodeos - When the rodeo came to town, we got out there and that was it – nobody practiced in advance.

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My best find that day was a gross of latex balloons packaged in neat little boxes

What Rudi Steiner says he found in a Main Street alley in the mid 1950s
Posted by Fred Steiner on February 2, 2021 - 9:36pm

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What Rudi Steiner found in a Main Street alley in the 1950s -  The alley, which runs parallel to Main Street and Jackson Street, was another of the great Bluffton alleys of the 1950s.

This was the longest of the alleys I travelled. It ran from behind the high school all the way down to Riley Street. This alley always had really good stuff thrown out by Bluffton merchants.

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James Pannabecker recalls a spanking from Miss Groman

"In Kindergarten some of us went to Crow's because they were giving away free balloons"
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 28, 2021 - 10:06pm

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James Pannabecker remembers: In Kindergarten, some of us went to Crow's because they were giving away free balloons.

When we returned, Miss Groman asked everyone who went to Crow's to stand up. I didn't stand, but went to Crow's. Everyone who stood up received a spanking.

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Dave Bracy's number 1 trout catch

I asked dad what number it was and I thought he was going to have a heart attack right then and there.
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 27, 2021 - 10:44pm

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Dave Bracy recalls:  During the 1974 derby, I was fishing with my family in our usual spot, right across from the shelter house. Halfway through the derby I suddenly got a hit on my daredevil lure.

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Ron Edinger...paddled in high school

And participated in a history-making Panama flyover
Posted by Fred Steiner on January 26, 2021 - 9:40pm

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Interview with Ron Edinger – I grew up in the second house from the county line on Main Street. My brothers are Jim, Jerry and Dick.

I was just another face in the crowd at Bluffton High School. I played baseball and for one season, football.

I was paddled following a high school assembly, either as a sophomore or junior. Actually, the entire row was paddled.

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