Watermelon Eating Contest. Entrants here.
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The courthouse used to face the river. This is what was then - c. 1880 - the back of the courthouse, with a drug store on the southeast corner of the square. A little more info is here. That's Craig's Hardware in the far back, between the two. |
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This is a privy that used to sit on the southwest corner of the court house square. There was, earlier, a jail on this site, and it's unknown whether any part of this structure was a part of that jail. |
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I.O.O.F. Opera House
An Opera House at this time in US history should *not* be thought
to have very much, if anything, to do with fat ladies in Viking
Helmets, singing in Italian. They were used for all kinds of high
brow and low brow performances, entertainments and
traveling shows. The I.O.O.F. is International Order of Odd Fellows. See below.
Want a sample program of the Opera House Fare? Go here
Most towns the size of Warsaw
had an opera house. The programs below
are the type of fare you could typically find at a small town opera house:
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Mary Katherine McDanell Lowe tells me: The picture you have of Bill McDanell standing by the wrecked car is my father, Everett McDanell. He was 8 years younger than Uncle Bill. If you notice he is wearing a mechanic cap, which I have seem him wear. He, Everett, later owned and operated the Sparta Garage. He worked for my Uncle Bill McDanell. |
Gallatin County Jail
Gallatin County Jail
. . . a personal note on this one,
here.
left, The
Alerts Base Ball Team, 1906
center, Warsaw Baseball, unknown year
right, The 1905 Warsaw Baseball Team, details
here.
County Road Machinery
Tom Morris and Joe Eddie Miller
Fire Scene. November 26, 1939
The full story is here.
The men in charge of the celebration on the
opening of US 42, October 29, 1930. Names here.
L-R, Ed Lamkin, Ike Watson, W. R. Payne. J. W. Connley, and George Winters
This cannon
was at what was then the front of
the courthouse, left to right:
Lan Gardner, Frank Allen, George W. Winters, and Louis R. Hall
Two interesting interviews with G. Winters are
here, and here.
Warsaw boys in front of Hendrix-McDanell Motors, June 19, 1932
from the left, Rex Wheeler, Harlan Shupert, J. W. Spencer,
Steward Roberts
Col. John J. Landrum
More on Col. Landrum is
here. (pdf)
William Harris
Marching Band in Warsaw. 1930's? 1940's?
The Gallatin County Band Boosters,
July, 1926
a list of the personnel is
here
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| That's Downtain Jones driving the horses, 1920's | Warsaw, "an early 1900 Fire Engine," is actually from 1890 | David Webb gives me the scoop on who and where, read it here. The caption is also thanks to him. |
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Seniors in the Army Reserve. 1956-57
Tommy Duncan, Douglas Sharon, Jimmy Harmon, Hardin Lowe
In 1904, G. F. G. reminisces about the Warsaw of old, here.
Downtown Warsaw had fires in 1932, here; and 1939, here.
An unnamed correspondent describes, in detail, the Warsaw of 1880, here.
Warsaw postmaster charged with fraud, here.
Death of Henry Johnson, Warsaw Barber, here.
