F.E. BAKER FORD DEALERSHIP
FROM MY DESTOP TO YOURS:The desktop pic is (of course) Frank Baker’s Ford dealership built by local contractor E.E. Koontz of Beulah Beach in 1935. If you look closely you can still see the Lake Shore Electric (interurban) tracks that once ran down the middle of Liberty. (Currently the building is the site of the Vermilion Deli Mart and John Rupert’s financial service office.)
Baker’s original building for his dealership was located in the old Guy Davis store that once sat on the northwest corner of Liberty and Grand streets. That site, by the way, is now completely empty.
The new Ford garage was state-of-the-art when it opened. It was a 60 x 100 foot fireproof brick building with 72,000 sq. feet of floor space with 1,500 square feet of glass. There were two entrances - one off the Liberty Street side, and another off Sandusky Street - both equipped with roll top doors with hydraulic lifts conveniently located near each. The lighting equipment, provided by the F.W. Wakefield Company just up the road, was also state-of-the-art. All materials used to build the new showroom / garage were purchased locally. The cost was (for the times) a hefty $12,600.
Mr. Baker was a Vermilion boy through and through. He was born in Vermilion in 1898, the only child of Vermilion born parents Phillip (b.1874) and Mary Bachman (b.1874). Phillip was a fisherman, and Mary was a dressmaker / seamstress.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that…
JUNE 25, 1942: Vermilionite Merle Koppenhafer stopped in the shop a few weeks ago with a question about an article that he thought appeared on the front page of The News somewhere around June or July in 1940. It seems that a burglar had broken into the family home on Perry Street – and his mother and father caught him. Merle recalled that the entire neighborhood had awakened to the ruckus. He thought that Mary Louise (“Tootie”) had been on the scene because she’d been out on a date with a beau. I told Merle that I’d look for the article when I got our microfilm reader and try to get him a copy.
I thought that 1940 have been a bit early for the article if I based it on his recollection of Tootie’s dating. I knew that she graduated from high school in 1944, and I thought that it unlikely that her parent’s would have allowed her to be out late on a date when she was 14. And as it turned out I was right. The incident took place on June 25, 1942.
It seems the family was abed for the night when Mrs. Koppenhafer awoke to a sound in their room. Waking her husband, George, they lay there listening until they heard another noise. Then George, while reaching for the light switch and jumping from the bed “stepped on a crouching form of a man”. Koppenhafer struggled with the man, out from the bedroom, into the hall, down the stairs and through an open front door to the porch waking Mrs. Koppenhafer’s mother, Mrs. Cuddeback, and young son Merle in the process. A screen door temporarily stopping the intruder from getting away gave Mr. K. an opportunity to grasp him about the legs causing him to tumble down the concrete steps into the yard. In the yard Mrs. K. grabbed the hapless fiend around the head and with both Koppenhafer’s upon him he was forced to the ground where they held him until help arrived.
“Their appeal for help was responded to by Bud Clark and neighbors Floyd Stokes, Tom Williams and Glen Martin. The marshal was soon on the scene, handcuffed the burglar and turned him over to the sheriff’s office.”
At Mayor’s court the following Saturday the bungling burglar gave the name of Ernest Moore of 31st Street in Cleveland. It was finally found that he had escaped from a Georgia prison in January of 1939. The sheriff took him to Cleveland the following Wednesday where he confessed to having broken into more than 80 houses during previous months. The police had been looking for him and his accomplices for five months.
The article stated, “The negro was tall, slender and wiry. He had cut a small hole in the screen of the west window over the sink in the Koppenhafer’s kitchen through which he unfastened and raised part way, and standing on an upturned lawn mower, crawled thought the window. He was without shoes, and he took the precaution to unlock and open the door on the porch, but had failed to note the type of lock on the screen door.” – which, as it turned out was his downfall (no pun intended).
Aside from cuts, scratches and bruises on his chest Mr. K. received a deep cut on his right thigh, and a cut on his left arm from an open pocketknife during the struggle. Mrs. K. received a knife cut on her left hand. The intruder had also bitten both folks. Vermilion Dr. Heinig was called and tended to their wounds.
Authorities found Mr. K’s watch in the intruder’s pocket, and another unopened pocketknife on the stairs.
And that was Big Doings in Vermilion on the night of June 25, 1942.
Historically,
FRIENDLY FACES ALL
SOUTH STREET TEACHERS: I believe (but I'm not real sure) that Vermilionite Larry Howell had this photo and let me scan it. Some hometown folks may recognize all the teachers in this South Street photograph from 1968, but I only recognize about eight. All would be retired now.
The person I know / knew best is Mr. (Roger) Watkins. He was then the principal of my favorite school. When I first knew him he was a high school teacher and coach. He's really a nice person.
I also know / knew Miss Kovanic quite well. When I was in grade school she was the music teacher, and had to put up with a great deal of nonsense (with us). Every time I hear (or sing to myself) the old folk tune Erie Canal, I think of her and of singing it in her music class so many years ago.
I'm sure many more folks have some great memories of at least one or two of these teachers.
THE RIVERSIDE INN: As the old adage goes, ‘Out of sight, out of mind”. The Riverside Inn (photograph) has nearly been forgotten by many long-time residents of Vermilion, O. It was hardly a five star eatery/ saloon. So it’s no big surprise that very few photos of it exist.
The Inn was located on the site presently occupied by Weld-Master (window) Manufacturing on the south side of Liberty Avenue just one door east of Exchange Street. A lady named Betty Kemmerer and her husband were then the proprietors. Betty was the daughter of a well known Vermilionite named George Harris, Sr. (PJ 1-10-08).
While I was not yet born when these shadows were captured (c.1942) my recollections of the place from the early 1950’s were vivid enough to allow me to recognize it when I processed the picture from some old Vermilion News photo negatives. The reason for the photo is evident by the structural damage apparent in the photo. But I have, currently, no details about the cause. Neither do I have any personal experience(s) to share with readers about the eatery. But through the years I have heard a few anecdotes relative to it.
Vermilion resident Larry Howell tells a story that took place during his youth when he and a group of his buddies were speeding on their bicycles past the Inn. When his cousin, Ron Eppler, approached the front of the place some old fellow opened the front door - which swung outward over the walk - knocking him - head over heels - off his bike. This story affords one some idea of just how close the building was to the front walk.
Another story concerns an old boatyard craftsman whose fondness for divine spirits of a corporeal nature ofttimes led him to divagate from his intended Port of Call. This gent was also a member of Vermilion’s esteemed Volunteer Fire Department. One day when the “alarum” was sounded he left his workshop along the river and headed up the hill toward the fire station on Ohio Street. As his co-workers and friends watched him - openly expressing their admiration for his dedication to the greater good of the citizenry - he crossed Liberty Avenue and entered the Riverside Inn. Evidently the fire in his belly was more in need of immediate extinguishing than the one for which the village alarm had been sounded.
I don’t recall precisely when the place closed. But methinks it sat empty for a time until the owner, Vermilion businessman Elton Fischer, sold it. The building was, of course, demolished and a new Vermilion Post Office was then built on the site.
If you stick around Vermilion, O. long enough you’ll witness the comings and goings of many, many business establishments and the folks who frequented them. This is not, however, a preface for some grandiose socio-economic critique or theory about the nature of commerce nor the people of our community. It’s just a homespun observation tendered by an equally “homespun” person whose memory was “jogged” - just a tad - by an old, and very extraordinary, photograph from a yesteryear that, but for its existence, might very well have been consigned to oblivion.
LESTER'S WHEEL PAGE 14:
SHOPTALK: T'aint a great deal to report about the shop this week. I did remove a majority of the styrofoam pieces that have been in the windows for years, and Georgie hung four new shades. Soon all the windows will be letting in the sun.
Margaret (Worcester) brought in 2 3'x 4' signs that we intend to use on Fulper's empty lot to advertise our opening. I put up some posters (pictured), exit signs, and fire extinguisher signs on the interior of the building. Next week we'll be placing protective covering over type drawers, etc. so they can be seen, but not handled, by visitors.
We're having an absurdly difficult time acquiring insurance for the place. All we're really looking for is liability insurance and enough to cover our initial investment in the structure. You'd thing we were trying to insure the Taj Mahal. Good grief! We won't open the facility until we acquire liability insurance.
As I work around the place I, now and then, come across some object that I had long forgotten about. It’s almost uncanny that I can still recall what some of the things were used for. Unlike some of my older siblings I was never directly involved in the printing processes. My experience was limited to proofreading, sweeping the floors, and, later, writing a weekly column [“By Gum!”]. The shop closed when I was 18, and I was, then, working full-time at a local restaurant. What fun…
POST OFFICE BOX: Please note that the MUSEUM has a post office box now. Now we won’t have to use our home address, nor the one at the shop for mail.
MEMBERSHIPS: Memberships to the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are now available. Funds generated will go toward the aforementioned renovations and maintenance of the shop.
If you would like to become a member the VNPSM you can send a check or money order to:
Vermilion Print Shop Museum P.O. Box 792 Vermilion, Ohio 44089
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AGAIN - ANOTHER NEW (NOW OLD) THING: Initially I said that "This will not take the place of the "Macabre" stuff all the time - but will supplement whilst I search for more macabre stories to tell." But methinks that it's carved out a niche for itself and the "Macabre stuff" with have to find another.
So stay tuned...
VOL. VII. NO. 52. – June 2, 1904
The Duplex Stamping col has made a proposition to the citizens of this village t0 locate here. A citizens meeting was held Monday evening and committees appointed. The proposition is that the site furnished them and $2,500 in stock subscribed. The site will not be large and can be purchased for about $100. Another meeting will be held as soon as the committees are ready to report. The factory will be for the manufacture of stamped metal articles such as drawer pulls, etc. and will give steady employment to a number of hands. It is to be hoped that some arrangements can be made whereby the company will locate here.
The Huron High School commencement will be held Friday evening, June 3.
The Vermilion Telephone Co. now has 210 subscribers.
E.J. Hill M.D. has moved to Vermilion and is occupying the Case house. He will have offices in the Pelton & McGraw Block.
Work was commenced this morning with dredge preparatory to laying the intake pipe for the water works.
Mrs. Millet and children of Cleveland are domiciled at the Lakeside Inn for the summer.
C.C. Baumhart has brought suit against the Board of Health for damages incurred during the smallpox epidemic here last year.
S.B. Broves is still on the sick list.
The fisherman arrested some time ago for dipping fish out of J. dash’s pound nets, was tried on two charges, one of stealing fish, the other for fishing pound nets without a license. He pled “Not guilty” to both charges and was discharged with costs to pay amounting to $30 50 [sic].
U.S. Stmr. Warrington arrived here from Buffalo the 27th and will proceed west on south shore to inspect the various lighthouses.
Tug Silver Spray is fitting out and will leave the latter pat of this week for Fairport.
The Keystone Fish Co., some days ago was around hustling up the painting, etc. on their eleven boats. It was thought by the different captains that their hurry was owing to their wanting to fit out again soon and go up the lake after fish, but in that they were mistaken as the laying off of their captains goes to show. This is the first year they have ever been laid off during the summer lay off.
The W. J. McCarter’s boiler has been taken out and will undergo repairs.
Have you seen the Mayor’s office? The old table which has served time as book case and a repository for many other articles too numerous to mention has vanished and a neat bookcase and desk taken its place. A great improvement.
It is amusing and sometimes very exasperating to read the sill overdrawn reports concerning Vermilion institutions and people that occasionally appear in some of our exchanges. One, the latest sbeaks [sic] of the “terrible blow” inflicted by the closing of the Howard Stove Mfg. Co.’s plant here. The plant has not closed. We hope that these stories do not originate in Vermilion for although founded on facts, the facts have been entirely lost sight of in the efforts of the writer to create some excitement. [VV Ed. Note: Those who follow these “Briefs” in Views should make a mental note of this little article. In time it will prove to be relevant.]
N. Fischer has for guest his son Chas. Fischer…from Kentucky.
Found – a bill, U.S. currency apply at Mayors’ office.
Don’t forget the high school commencement Friday evening.
Wanted – To Rent, an upright piano. Call at Lakeside Inn or Phone 343.
The new grand stand at Shadduck’s Park is a muc needed improvement and will probably be well patronized.
The heavy storm Monday and Tuesday did considerable damage fro the contractors who are putting in the sedimentation basin. Although the breakwater with stood the heavy sea, the excavation was filled with mud and water and will have to be cleaned out before the work can proceed.
The many friends of Mrs. John A. Englebry will be pleased to learn that the operation for which she was taken to St. Clair hospital was successful and she is getting along nicely.
Miss Emily Butler passed away Friday morning after an illness of only a few days. Funeral services were held at the house, Sunday afternoon, Rev. Weaver officiating. Among the pallbearers were Geo. Arnold of Elyria, Jackson barney of Milan, Horace Olds of Sandusky, old friends of Miss butler. Miss butler had spent a large part of a long lifetime here in Birmingham. She had taught school near here in her younger days and was well know. It would have been hard to have found a better teacher than she was. She leaves two brothers, Geo. Butler who has been living with her a year or two, and Chas. Butler of Highland Falls N.Y.
Ed Howe and wife went to Kipton to attend the burial of Mr. Howe’s Uncle, Major Albert Howe who died at Willoughby Wednesday a, and was brought to Kipton to be buried Sunday.
Mrs. Jake Portman is very sick with Inflmatory [sic] rheumatism. Dr. Maynard of Elyria was called to council with Dr. boss on her case last week. Her daughter Ida who is attending school I Berea was home last week Sunday.
Bad weather for Decoration day as it usually is. The Heavens are usually shedding tears on this day.
VOL. VII. NO. 52. – June 9, 1904
[VV. Ed. Note: The first four pages for this issue of The News is missing from the microfilm files so I continued “Briefs” into this issue.]
Linwood Park opens June 15.
Born – To Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Nuhn, Monday, June 6th, a son.
The Lake Shore Electric change time Tuesday. The change doubles the number of cars making a car every half hour each way, as far as Ceylon, at that point one care goes to Sandusky the other to Toledo. See time table.
The collision between the Lake shore Limited and Electric Package car on the Electric railway near Norwalk will belong remembered by those who live in that vicinity. It was one of the worst in the history of electric railways.
The following were killed: Thos. Sweeney, Toledo; ralph L. Williams, colored, Toledo; W.W. Sherod, Cleveland; W.P. Stevenson, Cleveland; Clarence Ketchem, Lorain; and Niel Sullivan, Oneonta, N.Y.
Eighteen were injured including Motorman Sturgeon of packing car, Fremont; J. Lavey, Berlinville; C.H. Ott, Elyria; Wm. Fletcher, East Norwalk; Motorman M. Beebe, beach Park; condnctor [sic] K. D. Hawkins, Beech [sic] Park; and conductor Coons, Fremont; the injured were from Toledo and Cleveland.
The dead and injured were taken to Norwalk and cared for. Dr. Quigley of this place was among the physicians called and one of the first upon the scene. Service through Vermilion was interrupted but a short time only as the Toledo cars were run around via Sandusky.
A coroner’s inquest was called at Norwalk and has been in session for several days in endeavor to place the blame.
The Decoration Day services, which were postponed, will be held at the cemetery Sunday afternoon.
The program will be carried out as published for Memorial Day. The G.A.R. and public will leave town for cemetery at 12:30. All who can furnish flowers should take them to the town hall Saturday afternoon.
Died – At Cleveland, of pneumonia, Tuesday morning, June 7, 1904, Mrs. John A. Englebry, aged 43 years. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock (sun time) at the residence.[VV Ed. Note: Prior to establishing Standard Time Zone in 1883 the U.S. the nation operated on conflicting times called “sun time”. The reason it is used in this report is not known.]
Mrs. Englebry was Sarah Hine of Berlin and was married to Mr. Englebry in December, 1902.
The opening dance at Shadduck’s Park will be given by the V.V. F. Thursday evening, June 23 dance tickets 50c.
Hereafter the management of Shadduck’s Lake Park will charge 10c admission, and 10c for a seat in the grand stand for ball games. No collection will be taken but half the proceeds from gate and stand will go to players.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Roscoe spent Sunday with Toledo relatives.
Henry Shafer, who was juror in a recent case tried here, and whose wife attempted suicide during the progress of the trial came in from his home at Birmingham with his wife yesterday for the purpose of frightening her into disclosing the hiding place of some poison which she says she will take if things do not go right. She wants her husband to move from ihe [sic] neighborhood because she was a neighboring woman induced her to attempt suicide and is the cause of all her troubles. She says this woman prepared the poison which she took and told her that “she would close her eyes for here when she died.” The next day after she took the poison she told her here husband would be glad if she would die. She stated that the woman is a morphine fiend and has on several occasions given her extra large doses of the stuff urging her to take it and put herself out of the way. She says she is afraid the woman will kill her and implores her husband to remove from the neighborhood. She said she was so nervous over the matter Tuesday that she fainted away twice.
They returned home in the afternoon, the attempt to get her to tell where the poison is hidden, being futile. – Register.
Hmmmmmm....
"Pictured is the Junior Class of Vermilion High School (at South Street school) in 1937."
THE FUN OF YESTERYEAR ACQUISTION(S): Like many of the photos acquired for these weekly essays the histories of how they’ve been obtained - and from whom - are often as fascinating as the photos themselves. Although the portrait accompanying these words this week is hardly rare - one could easily find a copy at the Ritter Library - the path leading to this particular reproduction was a tad more convoluted. But first it might be wise to date, and place some names with faces of persons in the photographs.
Pictured is the Junior Class of Vermilion High School (at South Street school) in 1937. Beginning with the top photo, L-R, are: Charles Gegenheimer, Earl Beiner, Paul. Becker, Elton Bachman, and Theodore Collit. Sitting: Gayle Furgason, Virginia Fischer, Mary Grego, Kathryn Easman, and Helen Friday.
In the middle photo are: Adele Kovanic, Edna Hoffman, George Kominis, Anna Matas, and Mary Lezak. Sitting are: Carl Kuhl, Donald Kishman, Albert “Jim” Hart, Richard Gorbach, and Harvey “Buck” Rodgers.
In the bottom photo are: James Sennhenn, Dan Schisler, Robert West, Richard Walker, Robert Weigel, and Gordon Sprigg. Sitting are: Audrey Walker, Madeline Wallace, Joan Nieding, Berdina Stokes, and Betty Jane Sylvester.
Now - to describe the roundabout path that brought this photo to my attention. Six years ago a person named Bobbi (aka “Roberta) Neller-Riley who lives in Santa Maria, California contacted me offering to send me some photographs from her family album. Bobbi, as it turned out, is the granddaughter of late Vermilionites Ruth (Goodsell) and Elton Fischer. [Note: The family operated a thriving lumber company along the river; owned the Maud-Elton hotel; and built the Fischer building on the southeast corner of Liberty and Main streets.]
In any case, I eagerly accepted those photographs. Many of them have appeared in past issues of the PJ. And over the years - although we’ve never really met - Bobbi and I have kept in touch. So in November (2010) when she wrote asking if I would - or if I knew anyone who would - be interested in acquiring a VHS tape documenting the 50th reunion of the Vermilion High School Class of 1938, I readily accepted it for the Vermillion Area Archival Society. Her mother Virginia, now gone, was a member of the class.
The video is hardly professional. It was the work of a class member’s (Mary Gregor) husband. Nonetheless it’s a rare document of significant historical value - locally. The reunion was held in October of 1988 at the (now former) Great Lakes Maritime museum at the foot of Main Street. Late teachers, Willis Gebhardt and “Miss Mary” Chadwick, also attended the reunion and appear in this document.
As nice as this video is I looked through my files to see if I had the high school annual “Log” book from 1938 that would help me better identify folks in the video. But I didn’t. What I did have is the 1937 book from whence the accompanying portrait was derived. And though this was helpful only the initials of the first names of students appear in that publication. Offhand I knew the first names of only eight of the thirty-one students pictured.
After openly grousing about not having a 1938 Log book at my disposal an old friend - Wade Rodgers now living in Michigan - noted my complaint and was kind enough to send me a copy. It belonged to his late father Harvey “Buck” Rodgers who was also a member of this class. Aside from allowing me to better identify folks in either the video or the 1937 book, the ‘38 publication also contains many autographs of both teachers and students.
In retrospect, there were several other ways that I might have acquired the full names of all the members of this class of a yesteryear. Several of them would have been easier, and probably much faster. But none - absolutely none of them - would have been as much fun.
In 1972 Rebecca Schroeder from Toledo, Ohio, USA was ten when she became an inventor. Becky got a patent for her invention in 1974; she was on television and won awards for it. She improved upon the idea over the next few years eventually calling it the Glo-Sheet. The Glo-Sheet has been used in many places. Doctors use them so they can check patient's notes in the dark without waking them up and the US Navy and NASA have used them.
THE FIRE-LANDS: I found the following information re: the early inhabitants of our area to be extremely informative. Methinks you will also.
I am getting better at transcribing these passages so there are fewer mistakes. But I like to read as I go - and sometimes I fill in the blanks. So tread carefully this trail through yesteryear.
The following series will take thee to the townships south of Vermilion. Methinks you'll find this history quite fascinating.
…Alfred, Edward E. and Frank E., and three girls — Julia M., Marsium B. and Arminta D.; five children are living. S. G. died October 11, 1849; Joseph B. died November 5, 1864, and Alfred died November 15, 1864. Solomon Hubbard's children were five, three boys and two girls: Holsy, Joseph B., Solomon, Charlotte M. and Rebecca, four of whom [sic] are living. Solomon died in March, 1864. Mr. Holsy Hubbard now owns three hundred and fifty-five acres of land.
In the month of August, the same year (1817), Deacon Isaac Sampson and wife, and family, consisting of Ezekiel (who came in 1816), and Sally, Isaac, John, Roxy and Marium, arrived in the township, second section, and after remaining a few years, moved on to lot three, fourth section. He was a brick manufacturer and stone mason; made, burned, and, in part, constructed the brick house in Ruggles township, —the first brick dwelling ever erected in all this portion of the then county of Huron, for Deacon Harvey Sackett, in the year 1834. The children married, as follows: Ezekiel to Polly, daughter of Joseph Merrifield; Sally to Enos Smith, of Florence, January 5, 1819; Isaac to Patty Hendryx, daughter of Old Anthony, in 1823, and in after years went west with the Mormons; Roxey to Archibald Bates, about 1826; John to Miss Townsend, and went to Illinois at the "Nauvoo Mormon Emigration," and Marium, at the age of thirteen, married to Gammalia Townsend, and, in company with Truman and Archibald Bates, in 1833, went to Indiana. Ezekiel and family moved to Iowa. Lewis, their youngest son, has just closed his second term as member of the Congress of the United States. Deacon Isaac Sampson died at Fulton county, Illinois, in 1838, and Ezekiel in Keokuk county, Iowa; Polly, his widow, at the age of eighty-three, in February 1871, at Sigourney, Iowa.
Joseph Merrifield and his son-in-law, Nathan Hoyt, came in July, and erected a log cabin on lot number two, fourth section (Thomas Hendryx had previously entered the same lot, but as he had made no improvements, it cost only a trifle to "jump his claim.") Their families came, December 23, 1817. From Brighton, New York. The names of the children of Mr. Joseph Merrifield are: Polly (Mrs. Ezekiel Sampson): Betsey (Mrs. Nathan Hoyt), and William, who were married in the State of New York, and Lydia (who married Peter Kinsley March 13, 1820); James B., Joseph Seymour and Lewis. They all lived for several years, and most of them all the remainder of their lives in New London; and some of their children and grandchildren to this day are here among us—good and highly respected citizens.
1818.—Fancis Keyes and family—wife and four children, from Vermillion (though formerly from the State of Massachusetts), came in the month of November, and settled on lot number six in fourth section. His, was the fourth log cabin in that portion of the township, now in the village—the first having been built by John Corry; the second by Ezekiel…
Excerpts from: The Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio; W.W. Williams - 1879 - Press of Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
AT LINWOOD PARK: This pamphlet artifact affords us a good idea of what Linwood Park was like back in 1927. There are some things to ponder. It says, for instance, that every room in the hotel has running water. I wonder if that simply means that it simply had a wash basin? Or does it mean that they had facilities as well?
I'm sure some good "Viewer" knows the answer to my question(s). It would be of interest to know (at least to me). Anyway, I'm glad I found this little item. It's just a small piece of Vermilion history. But it's extremely interesting.
When you put your best foot forward, it rubs off on someone. Theresa H's mother
While we are ingesting the author's valuable insights, we may also be swallowing his blind spots. Robert K. Oglesby
Why don't you wear that turtle-hair sweater or that herring-tooth jacket? Schell Browning
. . . who were going to fight you hook, line, and sinker. Rush Limbaugh
You are wise behind your ears. The Russler
You buttered your bread, now sleep in it! Jiminy Cricket
You can dish it out, but you can't take it with you. The Russler
You can lead a gift horse to water but you can't look him in the mouth. Gary Nijman
You can take that to the bank and smoke it. Stephen J. Cannell
You could have blown me over with a feather. a friend of the Russler's
You could visibly hear the reaction. Robert K. Oglesby
You could take that guy with a grain a salt. Cynthia Zotigh
You have to dance to a different drum. Laura Schlessinger
You hit the nail on the dot. Cynthia Vega
You must have ears like an eagle. Sam Gerard in "The Fugitive"
You need more sugar to get your brain circulating. Dave Beck
You were at your wit's nerve. Mike Shearer
You're fighting upstream. John Heft
NOTHING AGAIN THIS WEEK: This week no podcast again. I continue to think about this section of Views - looking for a better way to present these videos.
Persons interested in the history of the Lake Shore Electric Railway (which was the subject of a recent past podcast series) - "the greatest electaric railway system on the planet" may want to go to Amazon.com and purchase a book called "Images of Rail - Lake Shore Electric Railway". It was put together by Thomas J. Patton with the help of my friends Dennis Lamont and Albert Doane. It'd make a nice gift.
Also, please note that all the video (MP4 and MOV) podcasts (when used) are done in the "Quicktime MP4 / MOV" formats. If you don't have a "Quicktime" it's easy to find and free to download.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: After giving it much thought this link has been "put-down". During the last year most of the folks who used to use this page as a bulletin board have acquired their own and, consequently, no longer need this forum from "Views". I have, however, kept links (in the links section) to Larry Hohler's "Hope Homes" in Kenya - and to Bette Lou Higgins' Eden Valley Enterprises sites. They are historically and socially relevant projects. I suggest that you visit these sites on a regular basis to see "what's shakin'".
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Vol.10, Issue 12 - June 2, 2012
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