RER
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Post by RER on Oct 2, 2009 9:01:39 GMT -5
Mutt Turner & Morris Airfield Comments Garden City Areas
My brother inserts this additional information in the mix:
"Mutt turner is a familiar name. He may have sold out to Paul Morris. He was a fellow WW II aviator like Uncle Dale Eddelman. Dale piloted B-24 bomber aircraft, known as the "flying coffin". It was tough to get out if hit. He went through aviation cadet’s school, to get his commission and wings in the U. S Army Air Force. As said before Dale maintained an aircraft at the Morris airfield for some period of time. In later years, he also flew C-119 aircraft in the reserves, at Bakalar Air Base, and later transitioned to the T-37 jet engines. He retired as a major in the USAFR with over 20 years, and as a CHS math teacher and assistant football and track coach, under Max Andress and Jerry Quillan. Mutt Turner and Paul Morris were close friends. All three names had a common bond from WW II."
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Post by docwendy on Oct 2, 2009 17:10:53 GMT -5
Thanks Babs and Bob for answering something I always wanted to know when I lived in Columbus. I loved that old house. It was not in the greatest shape back in the 60's and early 70's so I'm glad to hear that someone has brought it back to life. In my mind's eye it was a beautiful house. Now, if I could just find out who lives there, maybe I could worm my way to a peek inside!
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Post by RER on Oct 3, 2009 12:30:44 GMT -5
Hi Wendy:
The house we have been talking about is very old and dates back into the 1800s and has been remodeled several times over the years. We are unable to provide any more information, at this time.
Someday, additional information may be provided.
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Post by docwendy on Oct 3, 2009 13:06:52 GMT -5
Hi Bob- I thought it looked at least that old. My son's in laws have a home that is an old stage coach in from the 1860's and they look to be of similar eras.
It would be wonderful to think that that old home could still be in the original family.
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Post by richard on Oct 3, 2009 23:45:28 GMT -5
Thanks Babs and Bob for answering something I always wanted to know when I lived in Columbus. I loved that old house. It was not in the greatest shape back in the 60's and early 70's so I'm glad to hear that someone has brought it back to life. In my mind's eye it was a beautiful house. Now, if I could just find out who lives there, maybe I could worm my way to a peek inside! I believe this may be the Farm these posts have referred too. As with a lot of pictures taken in the downtown area, the size of the trees hid much of the building looks of Fifty years ago.
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Post by docwendy on Oct 4, 2009 7:10:22 GMT -5
Thank you for posting that picture! I believe that is the house, although I would never recognize Rocky Ford Rd! I remember it as a small 2 lane road! Talk about change! And also, the house was unpainted brick back then, and what paint there was, was peeling. How nice it is that someone has restored it so beautifully!
The way we happened on the house all those years ago was during a search for a boarding stable for my very first horse after we moved to Columbus from Cleveland, Ohio. Even though I was a kid, that house impressed me. We lived in Forest Park so it was fairly close to us as I recall.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 6, 2009 12:21:05 GMT -5
Wendy, Rocky Ford Road has, indeed, been widened quite a bit since we were in high school. In fact, most if not all of the main thoroughfares in Columbus have.
There are still quite a few homes along Washington Street between 11th and 16th that have a sidewalk going out to the street, as there used to be parking along Washington.
It's funny: I've looked at our house on the Sanborn maps, the earliest being the 1886 map and it does show our house. Nothing is behind it, and there was no north/south alley. The property ran all the way back to Franklin Street. The thing I find most interesting is the map shows the entrance to the front room on the south side of the house. The main entrance has always been on the west side, going back way before mom and dad bought the house in 1979. It seems with each Sanborn map, either the house or the property changed little by little.
It's REALLY strange to think that when that 1886 Sanborn map was drawn, our house was at the northernmost edge of the city...
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Post by carangigia on Nov 22, 2009 7:44:33 GMT -5
Dear Columbus friends and folks, Many of you helped me years ago to find my deceased father Bernard Wayne Pennington and especially Richard Bray who found documents for me and did allot of photo's. I sent him a gift as a token of my great appreciation. However I changed my email address and lost his. Would anybody be willing to fill me in? My email is siddika.girl@yahoo.com. I have some good news for him regarding the subject. Thanks, Michelle
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Post by nealsnow on Jun 1, 2010 16:51:19 GMT -5
My old neighborhood looks practically unchanged. All the houses are still there. But none of the neighbors that lived there from my childhood years are still there. They've either moved away or passed on. The neighborhood also feels much smaller than I remembered. It doesn't feel right that I can't pop in at the Shoemaker's house for a coke, or head over to the Bui's house to watch cartoons. Like myself, they moved on, Lord knows where. I used to hate dealing with the smelly little kid from across the street, now I bet he doesn't remember who I am or how much grief he used to give me and how much I miss those "bad" moments. I also miss the older girl who lived over a block and a half, even though I'm not sure I remember her name. I had a crush on her, but she had a crush on my older brother, and he was oblivious to the whole thing. Now they're gone from the neighborhood, nothing but memories. And the neighborhood feels like an odd memorial, looking almost like it did way back when but no longer filled with those same people who filled up my childhood. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that everything changed in my old neighborhood, if that makes any sense.
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Post by jabaker on Jun 15, 2010 14:41:03 GMT -5
I didn’t live in Columbus (in town). I lived on a farm south of Columbus. The area in general has not changed a whole lot, except sadly the farm has been completely torn down and there is no evidence that there was ever anything there. Back in the 50’s, people would take aerial photos of property and then come to your house and try to sell them to you. I have an aerial of the farm that I keep at my desk and cherish. Of all the homes in the immediate neighborhood, just a few others are now gone. We lived just east of the river and there were houses down in the river bottoms that are no longer there. Those areas often got flooded in the Spring and the water came up very close. I imagine that is why they did not survive. One was used as a residence for a farmhand and the other one was rented out and had so many families move in and out I lost count. The other house was further away, and it too always had renters in and out. I had heard there were problems with the well water. The back way into town from our house was the county road that became Gladstone. We didn’t use that route into town much because of the old covered bridge, which my Mom was afraid to cross. It’s the same one over Clifty Creek that was moved to Mill Race and was burned. Also on this road was a grand brick two story Italianate style home which was rumored to be part of the underground railroad. Most of the other homes are still there and Mineral Springs has probably quadrupled in size. I had fun yesterday looking at the Bartholomew County GIS website and seeing how the old houses in my area look today and who owns them. I recognize many names! I posted elsewhere that the old Elizabethtown school where I went in grades 1-4 was torn down, but the Azalia school I attended from grades 5-7 and a few months of 8, is still there. Even though it is in poor shape it is a source of comfort to me to see that it is still there. The old interurban ran through our area and one of the old stations was still standing south of Azalia a few years ago. There was another one closer to our farm that was there during my elementary years but can’t recall the exact location, sure that one is gone though or I would have noticed it. The oldest building in Azalia, I think used to be the post office (when they had one), still stands. I would guess it dates back to the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. It is OLD! It was a grocery store in the late 50’s, ran by the Fodreas? I was always so curious to see what the river looked like west of our house. The road going past our house merged into other roads going north and south. The closest bridges crossing the river were a few miles south at Azalia and the third street bridge in Columbus. When visiting about five years ago, I discovered the road going past our farm now continues over the river with the construction of a new bridge. I think they call it Southern Crossing now. It sure would have made getting to the 4H fair from our house a lot quicker. This is a little disorganized, but hope you enjoyed it and that someone read something familiar to them.
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Post by rose on Jul 25, 2010 10:20:51 GMT -5
Columbus history fans,
I want to let you know that a new book,
FOLK HEROES, HEROINES AND HOMETOWN HERITAGE – From Columbus, Indiana’s City Hall Murals and Beyond
is available. It begins with some hometown memories of a guy who likes to reminisce and tells the stories of eight folk icons from diverse backgrounds and how they represent our area’s personality – its outstanding community-mindedness, and it’s about our area’s ethnic/racial heritage and becoming a community-minded place, and it’s about the value of aging in leaving one’s own legacy as the folk heroes have done.
After I wrote the manuscript I was looking for someone knowledgeable about local history to review it for completeness and accuracy, so people kept telling me to ask former mayor Bob Stewart. One day when I was introduced to him by a mutual friend, he said he would read it and after he did he made the following comments:
“This book is one of the most interesting and factual representations we’ve had of this community …. It is a wonderful and beautiful work. There are a lot of things I learned from it that I didn’t know and I appreciate that fact …. I really enjoyed it.” The book can be found at Yellow Brick Road (2211 State St.), Picture This (next to JCPenney), The Primitive Peddlar (Eastbrook Plaza), Viewpoint Books, Visitors Center, Merle Norman (Fair Oaks Mall), and BCHS.
Now that the general public is reading the book I’m hearing more anecdotes about the folk heroes, and I’d like to hear more from anyone out there, even just a line or two.
I hope you will enjoy the book and let me know if you have any new info from personal experience about anything in the book.
Rose
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Post by lyn on Dec 26, 2010 18:53:57 GMT -5
My first memories are of the house I lived in at 3011 Taylor Road, I believe it was the very first house in that area, or at least that street. At the very end near Marr Road, or Rocky road (I can't remember which street) but at the very end of the road was an old house that was falling apart. (where a lodge is now) There was a pond on that road about 1 block from our house. We sometimes went swimming or ice skating on the pond. (That was before houses were built around it and the fence was put up) It was a ranch house with a carport. I think it had clabbord siding. I remember many times that the home was hit by tornados (in the 1960's Our house got hit numerous amount of times. I think my parents had it because the third time the house was hit, we were out of there within a year.
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Post by davefoist on Jan 1, 2011 20:35:57 GMT -5
Here are just a few memories of our old neighborhood when we moved in to Columbus from Tellman camp.We moved to the Southeast corner of 14th and Union Street,where my Father started his Auto repair Garage,known as Casey's Auto Service.Across the street to the west was the Walls family,and Dan Walls also operated a Auto repair garage.Across 14th street to the north was the Staley manufacturing company,which later became part of Arvin,and later yet,the Columbus Wholesale Grocery.On the Northwest corner was the Hoosier Metal Products owned by Breevort Baker.Their was a railroad track just to the north of 14th at that time,I believe it was the New York Central line that went to Greensburg.In the Mid Fifties my Father and My cousin Leon,who worked for my father,built a new and larger garage,with the help of Mitch Wilbur,who was a brick mason,and laid the cement blocks.The building is still there and I don't know who owns it now.The neighborhood has changed considerably today,as many of the houses and businesses in the area have been torn down.I will have more later when I have more time to think about the things that have changed .
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Post by jaynecarmichael on Feb 28, 2011 18:03:16 GMT -5
I mentioned in another post that the house where I lived 1941 to 1951 was on the corner of 17th and PA streets; it had been turned into a store for bird lovers the last time I was in Columbus. We had rented a house on the corner of 7th & Hutchins the year before we bought the PA Street house, but don't know if it's still there or not. Of course the grade schools I attended have changed... Garfield and McKinley, and I was sad to see the photos of CHS coming down. My father worked for Powell Chevrolet and buildings in that area are long gone; as a young child he lived in a house somewhere on that end of town on a street that doesn't exist any longer, either.
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Post by najabab on Sept 11, 2011 19:30:41 GMT -5
I grew on sixth street near Maple. It was a fun place with lots of neighborhood kids. We would gather each night under the street light and play hide n seek and a number of other games. No one called the police on the "gang" of kids out at night. Cummins Engine has taken over all of the houses on the south side of the street. We would walk past the feed mill at the end of 6th and go swimming in Haw Creek. There was a street called Short Fifth that we rode our bikes on. We would ride the railroad tracks past Cummins and connect with Fifth Street or on to State Street, past the locker plant and Shaefer's Mill. The lower parking lot of Cummins would freeze over in the winter after a rain and it made a real nice skating rink. Lots of memories there for me. Enjoy reading the other posts.
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Post by nancs on Sept 22, 2011 7:19:17 GMT -5
I grew on sixth street near Maple. It was a fun place with lots of neighborhood kids. We would gather each night under the street light and play hide n seek and a number of other games. No one called the police on the "gang" of kids out at night. Cummins Engine has taken over all of the houses on the south side of the street. We would walk past the feed mill at the end of 6th and go swimming in Haw Creek. There was a street called Short Fifth that we rode our bikes on. We would ride the railroad tracks past Cummins and connect with Fifth Street or on to State Street, past the locker plant and Shaefer's Mill. The lower parking lot of Cummins would freeze over in the winter after a rain and it made a real nice skating rink. Lots of memories there for me. Enjoy reading the other posts. Been hectic in my neck of the woods (So. Cal) and in catching up, this post caught my eye------------as I, too, grew up in this neighborhood in the 40s/early 50s at 7th and Hawcreek. Not a lot of folks actually remember Fulk's Mill there at the end of 6th, and to get to Hawcreek you would have gone across the pasture field we used for our horses............. Think the Maple family would have moved by your time in the area, maybe not. Raymond Montgomery (think that is the last name) might have lived in the vicinity, as well as Donna and Bonnie Hollenbeck. You must have gone to Garfield......... Hmmmmm, I LOVE these message boards. Louise (Maple) help me out here............... Nanc (Stevens)
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Post by joeryanjr on Nov 14, 2020 8:19:34 GMT -5
Laurel Drive, Mead Village:
My family lived in two houses on Laurel Drive, from 1949 to 1958.
As of 2020, it has hardly changed.
It's now within the city limits (US 31 used to be the line), and the park has some new equipment.
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