- 3 days ago
- 1 min
45s and long-play records on Main Street
74 Christmases ago a Bluffton Main Street business sold both sizes of records If you’ve ever shopped in Prosser and Prosser, 119 N. Main...
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- 4 days ago
- 1 min
The next selection on the program...
Meet members of the Bluffton High School orchestra during the 1948-49 school year The strings program is among the oldest continuing...
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- Nov 6
- 1 min
1943-44 at Bluffton High School
Hi-Y members included familiar names: Bixel, Triplehorn, Herr, Klay, Augsburger, Steiner, Ramseyer, Reichenbach, Stratton, Gratz,...
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- Oct 31
- 1 min
In 1947 Beaverdam said "Boo!"
Halloween Carnival benefit for the Community Fire Association Seventy-six Halloweens ago the Beaverdam Community Fire Association said,...
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- Oct 19
- 2 min
July 1947 - One month after Roswell
"Strange object seen here like flying saucers" Bet you didn’t know that a “strange illuminated object” was sighted in rural Bluffton. It...
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- Oct 11
- 1 min
Home of fine foods and good service
P-K Truck Stop Restaurant in Beaverdam once stood at the cross roads of America When U.S. 30 and U.S. 25 crossed on the northside of...
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- Oct 5
- 1 min
Fill 'er up at The Swiss Inn
South of Bluffton at Gratz Crossing This is the Dixie Highway, or “old” U.S. 25, south of Bluffton, in 1944. It was a brick highway when...
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- Sep 7
- 3 min
August, 1947: A sound foreign to Bluffton's ears
The first-ever diesel locomotive passed through town on a test run Sunday’s run of the demonstrator was witnessed by only a handful of...
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- Sep 5
- 1 min
75 years ago Bluffton was hot for "ham"
It even had an amateur radio club Seventy-five years ago, Bluffton was an active player in the ham (aka amateur radio) airwaves. It had...
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- Sep 1
- 2 min
Here's where Blufftonites vacationed in 1947
The list with over 50 family vacations is on the front page of the Bluffton News How did you spend your summer vacation? If you lived in...
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- Aug 30
- 2 min
Bluffton's changing rural scene
Farm auctions from 1939, 1946 and 1959 show how we've changed Here are three examples of farm auctions from the decades of the 1930s,...
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- Aug 25
- 3 min
1940s Bluffton residents' brush with history
Involving Tomoyuki Yamashita, Albert Einstein, F.D. Roosevelt, George Marshall, Mickey Rooney and Carl Spaatz In November 1945 Bluffton...
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- Aug 22
- 1 min
74 Bluffton HS senior classes ago
Meet the Bluffton High School graduating class of 1949 on their senior class trip to Washington, D. C. Members posted for this photo in...
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- Aug 22
- 1 min
1948-49 school year
It's Bob Ewing's 4th grade - members of the 1957 BHS graduating class Members of Bob Ewing’s fourth grade class in the 1948-49 school...
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- Aug 5
- 2 min
Bluffton resident saw Hiroshima aftermath
Darvin Luginbuhl described what he saw of the Aug. 6, 1945, destruction Bluffton native Darvin Luginbuhl witnessed the devastation of...
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- Jul 11
- 1 min
Squirrel and raccoon dens - 1943
Project of Bluffton Community Sportsmen's Club Members and children of the Bluffton Community Sportmen’s Club members posed for this...
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- Jun 27
- 1 min
A WWII Bluffton brush with history
With a Civil War movie icon in 1942 - Clark Gable “Frankly, my dear,” we’ve finally found a Bluffton brush with a historical movie idol....
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- Jan 27
- 1 min
Bluffton's summer of '44
Boy Scout Troop 56 ready for cam It’s the summer of 1944. Bluffton Boy Scout Troop 56 poses for a photo on the steps of the elementary...
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- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
Carma Theatre week continues in black and white
Somewhere when the calendar proclaimed 1948, 1949 or 1950 Carma Theatre week continues on Bluffton Forever with a photo, as our best...
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- May 27, 2022
- 1 min
Aerial view of College Hall
Here's Bluffton College from the air in 1949 Here's a look at the Bluffton College campus from the air in 1949. At least College Hall and...
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