1947 Hall's Mill

Seventy years ago this month, the following advertisement, along with articles and thank you notes scattered through the newspaper, showed up in The Fowlerville Review, January 8, 1947, issue:

Ken Tannar (as listed at the bottom of this ad) was a charter member of the Fowlerville Rotary Club.  Such a nice, caring man I had the great fortune to meet and know for a few years.  By the time I met Ken, he was retired from the elevator business as well as his appraisal company.  We worked quite a few Dawn Patrols together, him always manning the mixing of the pancake batter and me helping to either deliver the batter to the bakers or even sometimes being allowed the cook the pancakes.

If anyone has memories of Charles and Marion Craig or Ken Tannar, I would love to have you share and comment.

1967 Stones in the Road

As I've been looking through some old files, I thought I'd search on items at 50 years ago, 40 years ago, etc.  Looking back 50 years ago, I found this article from The Fowlerville Review, published January 4, 1967.

Reading through this article, I wonder if Jerome Olrich and Mary Loughlin are still around.  Anyone know?

1914 Sinking of the Titanic

I decided, for a little change-up, to post some history away from the village.  The sinking of the Titanic in 1914 has been in the news a bit lately, especially as it always seems to be of fascination, since some new evidence has surfaced that the ship was having problems long before it hit the iceberg.  That the iceberg might have been the final death knell in staying afloat. 

The following article was found in the April 18, 1914, issue of The Fowlerville Review:

1958 Frank's Golf Outing Champions

One more random article found in The Fowlerville Review regarding the Curtis family and their grocery story.  In 1958, Frank's team became golf champions:

As always, anyone wanting to make a memory comment will be greatly appreciated!

1972 Frank's Silver Year

Continuing to look back at the Curtis Grocery history, I found the following article in a 1972 issue of The Review:

I'm sure for many of you it is a walk down memory lane -- so many names in this single article!

1967 Frank's Foodliner

As I'm sure close to everyone is aware Curtis Grocery closed a few weeks ago after reopening in 2010.  I am so sad to see the empty storefront and know I can't bop in there to see Ken, Craig, Larry, and Cate--have so enjoyed seeing them whenever I needed to resupply our fridge.

As I pondered the closing, I went in search of some of the ads from days-gone-by.  Below is an ad from November, 1967.

The next page of that particular issue of The Fowlerville Review also showed the winners of the "Let's Go To The Races" contest.  The picture on the left shows Frank Curtis, on the right is Gary Whitford.  Would love if my readers would leave a comment on either of these two men.