By Staff
Having attended the Dowagiac Conservation Club's last fish fry for this fall season (sure wish it wasn't) with our five friends - two from far-away Decatur - we haven't missed a one of them.
As a lover of wildlife, I think it is time the club should be commended for the beautiful new addition that was recently added.
There are some wonderful works of taxidermy adorning the walls of this new addition, like wild turkeys, wood ducks, a big Canadian goose, plus some different fish and a few other displays.
I think the members of the club deserve a couple of attaboys for their new addition and one of the best fish fries around.
How many remember when we used to get our Dowagiac Daily News in our mailbox every day and not by a paper boy?
It was from July of 1980 until June of 1983.
The Dowagiac paper was one of six daily newspapers in Michigan that used a mail circulation system.
I bet a lot of people have long forgotten how Berenice Vanderburg used to keep an updated file of addresses of the boys in service during World War II, so local people could write to our local boys while they were far from home. What a random act of kindness on her part.
I'm going through my new book “Images of America (Dowagiac),” which is pretty neat.
I read where Nicholas Bock built the big brick house at 104 Oak St. in 1877.
The house was used to rent rooms after he had sold his hotels.
He wasn't the only one to rent rooms in this house, as my good friend Charlie Price, who owned the house with his mother Sarah for many years, also rented rooms in the large house.
Some of Charlie's renters in the late 1940s and early 1950s were Michael Magin, Otto Wise, Dean Mott, Harry Tinkham, Harry Stack, Herman Hiemstra, Carl Mattauch and Charles Volgyes.
Remember the early days of TV when wrestling was a big feature?
Then how many remember “Gorgeous George” with his royal robe with its feathers and frills? It was something in which Liberace would have been comfortable.
He must have gone to a beauty shop to have his golden curls done. He had a valet to spray his corner with perfume.
I think George was famous in the late '40s and maybe the early '50s.