Saturday, January 31, 2015

1887: The Cream City House Fire

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  Wolf River was growing. David Youngs and George Steele were two of the four men who platted what is now most of downtown Algoma, and ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Chicken: Not Just for Sunday Anymore

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Somebody is paying attention to the TV commercial about the pig lobbying folks to eat the "other white meat." Chicken is all o...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Great-Grandpa's Ahnapee Pop Shop: The First in Two Counties

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Great-grandpa owned Ahnapee’s first pop shop. Seventy years later, in the late 1940s, three little girls salivated each time they saw the...
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Boloslav and the Town of Lincoln

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Rushford, Pierce, Royal Creek and Boloslav/Boloslaw are four of the Kewaunee County communities that have truly faded into oblivion. Not e...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Melchior Bros. & the Corner of 3rd and Steele Streets

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The first week of July 1945 saw the building at the southeast corner of 3rd and Steele vacant for the first time in its history. Melchior ...
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Barbershops: Two Bits for a Shave, Haircut & a Bath

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Shower Baths 25¢. It’s a sign few today have ever seen. Sixty or more years ago some barbershops offered bathing as well as the usual s...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Beach's: Algoma's Answer to FAO Schwartz

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For those of a certain age, the start of a new school year and Christmas bring thoughts of Beach's. Was there any place better? Well,...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Celebrating Christmas in Wolf River, Ahnapee & Algoma

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Christmas is Christmas. The reason for it never changes, though over the years its celebration has. Wolf River’s first Christmas 163 yea...
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