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This is said to be a Borculo home, but as of yet we haven't
identified it.
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Fire destroyed this house of John Lamer. Notice the phone lines
feeding into the house. The telephone switchboard was in the house. |
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Although this picture should be in the "People" section, I show it
here because it was taken inside the house pictured immediately above.
It is the telephone switchboard. It looks like the entire community
was on 10-15 party lines. To signal a specific party on that line,
the operator would plug her phone into the line, and dial a series of long
rings and short rings. Our signal was two long rings, and three short
rings. Of course everyone on the line heard the rings, and anyone
on the line could listen in on the conversation. |
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This is the old Henk Austhoff farmhouse on 104th St. north of Blair
Ave. Are those wooden shoes Jan Wonnink is wearing?! |
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This is the home of Eno Kraai which still stands at 6286 96th Ave..
On the larger photo, which you get if you click on this photo, the strange
lines do not appear. The lines come with the compression of the image. |
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This picture and the picture immediately below were taken from approximately
the same position, but a few years apart. The house on the left is
John Lamer's house which burned, and below is the house which replaced
it. |
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This picture was taken by someone standing a bit west of the Public
School on Port Sheldon Dr. (here called East St.) looking west. 1930?
Just a guess. The second house is the house John Lamer built to replace
the house which burned. |
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The home and family of Gerrit Jan and Hendrika Goorman who immigrated
in 1891. On Feb. 27, 2003 I asked George Overway, born 1918?,
about the house. He says this is the house he lived in on the northwest
corner of Tyler St. and 88th Ave. It burned completely in 1932. |
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Standing about in front of the Borculo Christian Reformed Church, this
picture looks south down 96th Ave. The house on the left is of Lou
Vollink, which was attached to the Vollink Bros. Store. The building
on the right was the blacksmith or harness shop. 96th Ave. is not
paved in this picture. I am guessing the picture was taken in the
1920's. |
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This early brick house still stands at 6091 96th Ave. |
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6296 96th Avenue. |
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Sent to me by Eugene Talsma, this picture is believed to have been
taken in the early 1900's. It shows the 'homestead' of Gerrit Talsma
which as of this year, 2003, still stands on 96th Ave., about 2 1/2 miles
north of Borculo. In the 1940's I recall Gerrit Talsma lived about
1/4 mile east of Borculo. Pictured here are:
Standing, l to r -,John?, Marinus, and father Gerrit
Front. unknown man, Grandma, Maria, Richard
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pictures of their barn etc. |
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