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10/28/21 09:58 AM #2717    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

As soon as there is an obituary for Dan Shickle  we'll post it in the Memory Section.  In the meantime, if you'd like to send a card to his wife her name is Jane  Shickle and the address is 409 Hovey Avenue, Normal, Illinois 61761.  If you'd like you could mention you were from Dans graduating class.


10/29/21 02:49 PM #2718    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Does anyone know where this sign  for Hubbards Cubord was?  I don't remember anything that's shown In the picture being around their building.  Could they have torn the Gas Station down and put the Zesto Ice Cream building there, I'm lost!


10/30/21 08:52 PM #2719    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Jim Jaeger!!!!

 


10/30/21 08:57 PM #2720    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Karyl Uban Kafer!!!!


10/31/21 01:02 AM #2721    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)


11/02/21 09:41 PM #2722    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Phil Hershey!!!!


11/03/21 09:19 AM #2723    

 

Phil Hershey (Hershey)

Thanks Barb for posting my Birthday notice and all you do to keep our site going with all the great pictures of Bloomington as we remember it.


11/04/21 09:38 AM #2724    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

This is a picture of the C.H. Payne Grocery Store which was located on the corner of East and Locust Street.  The building is still standing and I believe a Medical Supply place is located there.

 

For the West siders, here is a picture of Rodgers Grocery Store which was located on West Chestnut Street.


11/04/21 12:40 PM #2725    

 

Bill Butler

Gosh Phil, .... you're having another BIRTHDAY!  Didn't you know that after age 39 you are suppose to skip every other one?  If Jack Benny can do it, so can you.  I remember going to your (...it was about 2nd-3rd grade) super BD bash at your house.  It took me a long time to figure out what to get you for a present, but I do remember it was either a pair of bright yellow socks or a model car that you had to put together.  Hope you liked the car and saved it for posterity!  And I hope your parents got the house put back together and didn't have to file insurance claims.  Now, we'll see how good your memory is.  So anyway, hope you had a rip-roaring party and have regained consciousness!

Finally, thanks again to Barb for continuing the B-ton photos.  Those photos with 1930s, 40s, and 50s cars are really nostalgic, but it sure does date her.... can't believe she has been getting around town for all these decades taking pictures.  Well, ... can't think of any more demeaning, snarky, or incriminating comments, so hope The Class is staying healthy and not getting any older.... and enjoying a superfluity of positive vicissitudes... OK?


11/05/21 09:48 AM #2726    

 

Phil Hershey (Hershey)

Thanks Bill Butler,

It must have been a great birthday back in 1952, but I don't remember it. My 77th was much quieter (which I do remember) just my wife and I at our  favorite restaurant, Eddie V's in Ft Worth, TX. BTW my parents never recovered from that years ago  birthday party and in 1961 sold the house and moved out to Normal to a new development on Sugar Creek. Enjoyed seeing the 61-62 basketball team picture and noted you were in the picture. We grew up together along with Bobby Sphan, Jim Shirk, Rod Brent , Buzzy Feek and Ron Bess. It was a great team and should have won State.

 


11/05/21 03:12 PM #2727    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Bill,

When  I first started taking the pictures I had a horse and  buggy, then graduated to a Model T and have managed to upgrade as the years have gone by.  When my kids were little one  of them asked me if Abraham Lincoln had a bow tie or a necktie on the day he was assinated  because he thought I was there so that just goes to show you I am older than dirt! 


11/06/21 09:28 AM #2728    

 

Phil Hershey (Hershey)

Hey Barb, being older than dirt is better than being under the dirt.


11/07/21 08:53 PM #2729    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Breakfast Wednesday at 9:00 o'clock at Shannon's, hope you can join us!


11/11/21 08:53 PM #2730    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

The obituary for Dan Shickle has been posted in the "In Memory" section.


11/11/21 08:56 PM #2731    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Michael Munn!!!!

 


11/14/21 05:01 PM #2732    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Who remembers Ryan Pharmacy which was located on East Oakland.  It now houses a bakery.

 


Or The Eisner Food Store in Towanda Plaza.

 


11/16/21 08:52 PM #2733    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Alvin Phillips!!!!


11/16/21 08:54 PM #2734    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Jane Ringo Maupin!!!!


11/17/21 01:29 PM #2735    

 

Jane Ringo (Maupin)

Thank you, Barb, for the birthday wish.  You are so kind and efficient in acknowledging birthdays! 

I do remember Ryan's pharmacy.  As my parents aged, I was occasionally asked to pick up prescriptions from Ryan's,

Quite some time back, you posted a picture of the David Davis Mansion that jogged my memory.  I walked right by there every day going to Washington Jr. High but never saw it because view of the house was blocked from the street due to trees, bushes, etc.  I was happy when years later they cleared out the brush and the public could enjoy the beauty of the historical building.


11/17/21 04:53 PM #2736    

 

Alvin Phillips

Thanks Barb for the birthday wishe.

11/17/21 08:49 PM #2737    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Thomas King!!!!


11/19/21 06:21 AM #2738    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Below is a picture which was on another website this week and it's the bridge at Miller  Park and  I can't believe what it looks like.  If you look closely you'll see they've put steps on it and to me it looks like you'd be climbing a mountain.  I guess I don't understand the City of Bloomington's thinking but someone mentioned kids were doing things they felt were unsafe, still looks terrible in my book (for whatever it's worth!)


11/21/21 08:54 PM #2739    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Linda Green LaRochelle!!!!


11/24/21 08:59 PM #2740    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving!


11/25/21 08:59 PM #2741    

 

Barbara Kincaid (Menken)

Happy Birthday Richard  "Dennis"  Center!!!!


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