Bluffton Travel Class of 1941
Several prominent Bluffton families represented in this photograph Here is a photograph of a Bluffton’s women’s club called the Travel...
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Washington never slept here
but Dillinger robbed our bank
and Elvis stopped for gas
- 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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- Nov 27, 2022
- 1 min
1942 Bluffton Christmas season
Thirty-seven Bluffton businesses offered Christmas greetings in a three-page spread in the Dec. 24, 1942, Bluffton News. SCROLL DOWN TO...
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- Nov 1, 2022
- 1 min
48-star flagged Main Street
Paul Diller's color photo is one of the earliest even taken in Bluffton - early 1940s This Main Street Bluffton photo is loaded with...
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- Oct 3, 2022
- 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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- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
75 years ago you could hop a Greyhound on Main Street and go...
...almost any where. Read this advertisement in a 1947 Bluffton News And, we think we live in the best of times. In 1947 a Greyhound bus...
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- Aug 8, 2022
- 1 min
Here's the Bluffton HS class of 1956
They are first graders in Ruby Murray's class during the 1944-45 school year Ruby Murray’s first graders during the 1944-45 school year....
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- Aug 6, 2022
- 4 min
This Bluffton mysterious place has a watery grave
The famous "floating" pool – familiar to an earlier generation of Bluffton swimmers The world’s oceans hold many secrets. Sea monsters,...
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- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
Bluffton Masons on parade in 1940
Can't miss that Lima-made San Felice 5 cent cigar billboard It’s 1940. Members of the Bluffton Masonic Lodge parade down Main Street. The...
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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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- Jun 29, 2022
- 1 min
First Mennonite youth choir - 1949
The First Mennonite Church youth choir in 1949 was directed by Polly Bauman with Pauline Raid as the accompanist. Front from left, Sally...
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