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Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.

Reminisce: Al Jardine, of the Beach Boys, returns to Lima

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On a summer day in 1988 the resident of a home in the 900 block of West Wayne Street answered his door to find, though he didn’t know it at the time, a recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on his porch.

Reminisce: Three generations contribute to Don Jenkins Jewelry

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Servicemen returning to Lima from World War II who were anxious to finally tie the knot didn’t have to look far to find a ring. Downtown Lima in the fall of 1945 was packed with jewelers, 10 of them within four blocks of the Public Square.

Reminisce: ‘The roller-skating craze:’ Remembering the Lima Roller Rink

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The building has stood for nearly a century at 545 W. Market St. Constructed in 1928 for Timmerman Motor Sales, it has been home to large firms like the Marvel Maid Garment Co. and the Perry Corp. as well as dozens of smaller ones.

Reminisce: ‘A special engine:’ Nickel Plate 779 marked the end of an era

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“Placement of an order for 10 freight locomotives to be built at the Lima-Hamilton Corp. at a cost of approximately two and a half million dollars was announced Wednesday by the Nickel Plate railroad in Cleveland,” The Lima News reported in a front-page story July 14, 1948.

Reminisce: Honoring Alger’s baseball legend

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ALGER — Baseball aficionados and history buffs will have certain names come to mind when it comes to some of the great pitchers of the 1930s and 1940s: Lefty Grove, Dizzy Dean, Lefty Gomez, Spud Chandler, Whit Wyatt or Johnny Vander Meer. However, there is one name that may not come immediately to mind, a name that may not have the same flair as “Lefty,” “Dizzy” or “Spud.” But his impact on the history of America’s pastime during those decades cannot be questioned.

Reminisce: Child bride and her boy husband

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In a column devoted to news from south Lima, the Lima Times-Democrat reported Nov. 15, 1900, that U.S. Army Private Charles E. Fuller had arrived home the previous evening after a seven-week journey from the Philippines.

Reminisce: Kibby’s ‘long and useful life’

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The “long and useful” life of Harman Kibby, described by the Lima Times-Democrat as “one of Lima’s oldest and most prominent pioneer citizens,” ended in its 83rd year on April 9, 1902.

Reminisce: Cooling off in the 1930s

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On a hot summer day in a world without widespread air conditioning, Lima’s new bus company stepped up with an offer of inexpensive access to an oasis of evening cool.

Reminisce: Lima’s Class of 1888

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Members of the 24th graduating class of Lima High School posed for a class photo as they prepared to enter a world already much changed during their school years and made nearly unrecognizable in the 135 years since.

Reminisce: Recalling Schoonover Pool

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Two and a half weeks before marching bands, a stunt pilot and “Diablo the Human Torch” entertained some 50,000 people at the dedication of Schoonover Park, the man most responsible for making it all possible quietly tried out the park’s recently completed swimming pool.