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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 14:17:16 GMT -5
Nanc, just a couple weeks ago Richard and I were at the library doing some research work on a few items in the Indiana room and for some time I had wondered were else in Columbus the Maynard family had lived at beside 1812 Keller Ave. were they were at from 1927 to 1940, prior to that location they were at 1026 Central Ave. and on the north side of 7th St east of Cottage Ave., no house number. When at the Central Ave address in 1910- 1913 the city director gave Ken as employed at The Hege Co. as a carpenter.
That is a great website you found on Ken Maynard. I have talked to some people that remember Ken coming to his mother's home on Keller Ave. and bring his horse along and keeping it in the lot next to his mother's house.
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Post by nancs on Apr 18, 2010 14:55:39 GMT -5
Nanc, just a couple weeks ago Richard and I were at the library doing some research work on a few items in the Indiana room and for some time I had wondered were else in Columbus the Maynard family had lived at beside 1812 Keller Ave. were they were at from 1927 to 1940, prior to that location they were at 1026 Central Ave. and on the north side of 7th St east of Cottage Ave., no house number. When at the Central Ave address in 1910- 1913 the city director gave Ken as employed at The Hege Co. as a carpenter. That is a great website you found on Ken Maynard. I have talked to some people that remember Ken coming to his mother's home on Keller Ave. and bring his horse along and keeping it in the lot next to his mother's house. Hi, and thanks for that input----------and some of it sort of jells what is 'floating around in my memory,' and I may have posted this somewhere else on the message boards..........One, the Central address 'jives' with my recollection----N of 10th St.-----while in elementary school at Garfield----------Dixie Bolar, a classmate, who lived 'about next door to the Maynard parents,' took up a 'collection' for the Maynard family, as one of the parents had passed away. And that Central address exactly where I recalled them living in the 1940s.............Hmmmmm. Wonder if, by chance, they moved back from Keller to Central? WHOA-----and in a reread--------------I note you mention, on the N side of 7th, E of Cottage---------------now that is my 'neck of the woods,' and both my parents, as young folks lived in that neighborhood-----the plot thickens here. One, on that N side of 7th, was the Tanner home, think that couple lived there for years and years, at the NE corner of 7th and Cottage, and my Aunt Katie Harrell (sp) was a secretary for Judge Sharpnack (also at one point she was married to my mother's father, Carl Smith, long story) lived in the only other house on the N side 7th, between Cottage and Hawcreek-----------and I know that my mom lived in that house when she was in high school, graduating in 1928, maybe 1929. And my dad lived on Cottage, E side of the street, 2nd house from the corner at 7th to the South-------------------Interesting, for sure. Would that be 'another library trip' to research? Wish I was close enough to help out..............LOVE doing that. Nanc
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2010 16:29:07 GMT -5
Nanc, I will gladly make a trip to the library and do so more research on this, I remember now you talked about living in that part of town.
I may have a connection with the house on 7Th between cottage and hawcreek on the north side, in the Early 40's we lived in East Columbus and I remember the people living there had a bicycle track in their back yard and I would go to the track.
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 18, 2010 20:16:03 GMT -5
Hi nanc! Regarding your question about Cole Bros., I will do some additional snooping around The Billboard (I always referred to this as Billboard magazine--Billboard came out weekly and had the TOP 100 music charts, of which I have several of their books). Besides covering music, billboard also covered television AND circus/fairs/coin operated businesses. It is really nice because The Billboard is now online at google books. All of the issues aren't online, but they do have a good amount of them. The google books offerings begin in 1942. They go back much farther than that, and I hope that one day, they offer earlier issues. Here is the link if you are interested: books.google.com/books?id=UCkEAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
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Post by RER on Apr 19, 2010 10:56:42 GMT -5
My brother has indicated that he remembers the circus erected in the large field off 10th Street in the 1940s. At that time we lived at the corner of 5th and Union and our grandparents lived near the corner of 10th and Union Streets. He recalls riding his bike down to the circus erection area and watching the construction and setting up the tent and support items. He remembers they always had a least one elephant for the circus. They erected the big tent at the right curve of 10th Street going East. After the circus would end he would ride back to see the final exit of the construction.
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 28, 2010 11:26:53 GMT -5
At this point, I'm not really sure where to post this picture, so I'll put it here. I stopped by Granny Bea's and talked to Jerry Coomer last week. He let me borrow two pictures to scan. This is the first. Does anyone recognize anyone in this picture? Close-ups to follow:
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 28, 2010 11:27:39 GMT -5
Close Up #1 Is the gentleman with the tie and white shirt a one-time mayor of Columbus?
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Post by David Sechrest on Apr 28, 2010 11:28:13 GMT -5
Close Up #2
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2010 17:25:59 GMT -5
World War II ended 65 years ago tomorrow, August 14, 1945, I was 11years old at the time and we lived in the 1200 block of Lafayette Ave. Dad was a member of the Columbus Fire Dept. and was stationed at station 1 on Washington St., so as usual I made my daily trip over to the station, everyone was out cerebrating in the summer rain. When I got to the station I saw the firemen had mounted and old hand cranked siren on a saw horse and everyone that came by took turns cranking it, what a great time everyone had that day. Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the allies and the day was known as V-J Day, it had been a long war and everyone was ready for peace.
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Post by nancs on Aug 15, 2010 18:07:19 GMT -5
World War II ended 65 years ago tomorrow, August 14, 1945, I was 11years old at the time and we lived in the 1200 block of Lafayette Ave. Dad was a member of the Columbus Fire Dept. and was stationed at station 1 on Washington St., so as usual I made my daily trip over to the station, everyone was out cerebrating in the summer rain. When I got to the station I saw the firemen had mounted and old hand cranked siren on a saw horse and everyone that came by took turns cranking it, what a great time everyone had that day. Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the allies and the day was known as V-J Day, it had been a long war and everyone was ready for peace. Thanks, George, for this reminder, and it really rather confirms my memory through the eyes of a 7 year old............It was the summer rain that I recalled, and being with my dad in the car, going N on Franklin, I believe, nearing 7th Street, think there was a funeral home along in there--------------and literally EVERYONE was honking their horns. And I have to ask, how much longer did 'rationing' continue? I know we did not get a 'replacement car' until 1947, and even then your choices were limited, and you took it with whatever amenities came on it---------desired or not. Know that Chevy had a sun visor on it that my dad really did not like or want-------and when it blew off the car, out here in So. California, in a near by canyon-----------I remember my dad, refusing my mom's pleas to go back and retrieve it (and he should have), saying, "I never did like that visor, and now it is gone! Thank goodness!" Nanc
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2010 20:57:11 GMT -5
Nanc, I see you remembered the rain also,it sure didn't slow the celebrating, I remember some people shooting their shot guns , there would not have been any fire works then, all of the powder would have went for the war.
Rationing, I sure remember it, all the ration books and tokens, about everything was rationed, a lot of food, shoes, car tires, most people had a A card for gasoline which was 5 gals. a week. I remember sugar was a big thing people could get very little of, very little candy for us kids.
As I remember it was not long after the war that things became available, I know that cars were a little slow returning, if you got one all of the neighbors came to see it.
It didn't take to long for people to get back to living a normal life after the war, except for all the men and women that did not return from the war, and there were many family's that lost love one's.
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Post by richard on Sept 5, 2010 12:02:36 GMT -5
The following is an example of advertising for Columbus, Indiana entertainment during World War II. Starlite Ranger Jamboree, Hetty Glore and her Bandoleers, Little Joe Denny with the big voices, The Texas Sweethearts, Jean and Betty, The Newlands, The East Columbus Ramblers, Scottie The Educated Dog, William “Bill’ Palmer, Little Lucy White, The Brown County Girls, Bill Ritter, Berry and Dwight, Earl Andrews and his Musical Saw, “Sambo”, Bob Bartley, Starlite Ranger, Martha Willey
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Post by jaynecarmichael on Apr 20, 2011 10:39:29 GMT -5
I remember rationing with books of stamps and little round red markers; not sure how they were used. I remember saving the foil from chewing gum wrappers, flattening tin cans, etc., and taking them downtown to add to other people's donations. My brother had just started working for Cummins when he was drafted into the army; we had a little flag with a star on it in a front window to show someone in the family was in the service. I took photos of him in his uniform to school to show my friends (he was eleven when I was born, so I was in early grades of school while he was in the army). The other girls would say "woo woo" or "hubba hubba" when they saw the pictures. I realize now how frightened my parents must have been for his safety; he was sent to the Pacific war arena, but didn't have to do any actual fighting. My parents were block wardens, too, and I remember they had helmets, carried sticks and wore armbands. When President Roosevelt died on my grandmother's birthday (April 12, 1945) she, my mother and I sat and cried. I had the irrational fear that we'd lose the war without him. We were so carefully taught to hate German and Japanese people at that time, and I remember drawing a cartoon strip with a U.S. airman shooting down a Japanese plane. It still seems to me astonishing that five years after the war I was writing to a Japanese penpal. We continued writing until his death, and I still correspond with his daughter, who teaches English to children in Japan. I think of her often now after the recent earthquake that has unleashed nuclear problems. When my folks bought land ca. 1950 on Carr Hill Road from my father's sister and husband, Opal and Norval Arnholt, my father hired a man to bulldoze areas before building a broiler house. The man who ran the bulldozer was Japanese-American, and had spent time imprisoned along with other U.S. citizens of Japanese descent in one of our country's worst actions. As a child during the war (I was six in 1941), I certainly didn't understand its full implications, but certainly picked up the fears of the adults around me.
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Post by jaynecarmichael on Apr 20, 2011 10:56:20 GMT -5
Some other thoughts triggered by posts... When I was in high school, Virginia Fravel and I were chosen to paint a mural in the high school cafeteria. We painted a picture of circus people and animals, and had "Cole Brothers" somewhere in it. I remember we had to climb on ladders to paint it. When the circus was next in Columbus, she and I were given complimentary tickets because of giving them some advertising, and we were told we could see "backstage" on the grounds. I remember we walked around briefly, but felt very unwelcome, so quickly went back to the areas open to the public.
I know that during WWII it was very difficult to get new cars. We had moved to Columbus in 1940 from Scipio, where I was born. My father had lived in Columbus as a child and his sister Opal was born there; also, my parents had lived there before, and my brother was born in Columbus in 1923. In 1940, we rented a house at 703 Hutchins for a year, and I played with Lou Ann Owens, who lived on the other end of the block; her father was the mayor for a time. Then we moved to 1702 PA Street in 1941. My father had found a job selling cars at Powell Chevrolet. During the war years, people were on a waiting list to get new cars, but Daily Powell would move his friends up on the list so they could get them more quickly. My father thought that was a nasty trick, and after a while was no longer working there. For a while he worked for his friend Ed Schaeffer, selling Olds & Cadillac cars, and would be given new ones to drive for a while from time to time. Once he drove a car that had a clear plastic hood so people could see the inner workings of the car; that always drew a crowd wherever it was parked in town. Now the area where the Powell Chevrolet building stood is no longer recognizable; also, the part of town where my father lived as a young child was razed years ago, and I have no idea where it was.
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