Two photographs in the Jasper Herald of a basketball game between Vincennes Rivet and the Dubois Jeeps at the first game played in the new gymnasium. Pictured in bottom picture under the basketball are Steve Sander (52) and Robin Jerstad (44). ...
A photograph in the Jasper Herald of the first basketball game played in the new Northeast Dubois High School gymnasium between the Vincennes Rivet Patriots and the Jeeps.
In 1926 Miss Bonnie Rodgers (first on the left) won the first Miss Bass Lake Beauty Contest. While the suits may seem very old-fashioned, they are actually very risque for the year of the contest. Women still had to wear stockings to cover at...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Big bands; Publicity photographs;
Don Redman, born in 1900, was an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer. His father was a music teacher and his mother was a singer. He began playing the trumpet at 3 and joined his first band at 6. By age 12 he was proficient on all wind...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Hotels; Lakes & ponds; Tourism; Boats;
The Brabrook Hotel was located on what is called Cedar Point on the west side of Bass Lake. The hotel burned down in 1913. Prior to being called the Brabrook it was named the Larimer Hotel and was the first hotel to be built on the lake. It was...
Starke County (Ind.) ; Hotels; Tourists; Vacations; Leisure;
The Brabrook Hotel was originally built as the Larimer Hotel in 1887. It was one of the first hotels to be built at Bass Lake. This building burned down around 1912. However the clubhouse eventually became home to Buchta's general store.
Starke County (Ind.) ; Publicity photographs; Big bands;
Female band leaders were not common in the first quarter of the 1900s, but Bobbie Grice and her Brick Tops had a big following nation-wide. A big part of that was her band's musical talent and another part was, of course, the unique fact that they...
Bank #227 is a gift from the State Bank of Syracuse during its first year of operation, circa 1908. It was found by Robin and Larry Kaercher at the Metrolina Expo in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The "Washington" worked the Ohio in the 1920s and 1930s. She was dismantled before 1940. In this view she is tied up at the Madison docks. She was based first in Cincinnati then in Pittsburg. The photo is thought to be from the 1920s.
Steamboats; Riverboats; "City of Madison"; Dikes (Engineering)
Built in Madison in 1882, the boat was the second "City of Madison," the first having been lost in a devastating explosion during the Civil War. On June 18, 1894, she was returning from a trip to Memphis, with a stop-over in Owensboro, Kentucky,...
The "Belle of the Bends" was built in 1898 and in 1909 she sank and was raised for the first time. A year later she again went under and was raised. She ran as an excursion boat in New Orleans in 1910 and 1911. Soon after she was overhauled and...
Steamboats; Riverboats; Excursion boats; "Belle of Louisville"; "Avalon"; Ferries; USO clubs; Rose Island
Built in 1914 this boat went by the name Idlewild from that date to 1947. She then became the Avalon from 1947 to 1962 when she was dubbed "Belle of Louisville". She is a shallow draft boat which enables her to glide over water that would not be...
This boat was built in 1910 by Howard as the "J. H. Menge" and later the "M. A. Burke," a cotton packet. It was sold to the Louisville and Cincinnati Packet Company in 1919 and then was sent to Mount City for extensive alterations before being...
Steamboats; Riverboats; Stern wheelers; Greene Line; Madison-Milton Bridge; Ohio River
Built in 1925, this was the second "Chris Greene" of the Greene Line. One can see the Madison-Milton Bridge in the background on the left hand side; it was built in 1928. The first "Chris Greene" was lost in the great fire at Cincinnati in...
