Tag: Reminisce

WAPAKONETA — Auglaize County turned 100 in 1948, and birthday greetings rolled in.

When Hollywood came to Lima in 1980 to film the made-for-TV movie “Attica,” Lima State Hospital stood in for the New York State prison, site of a deadly 1971 uprising, while many local people got a taste of moviemaking as extras and some even landed minor speaking parts.

On a sunny Sunday late in the summer of 1901 a crowd, which by some accounts numbered 8,000 or more, gathered in the 700 block of South Main Street to witness the brick-and-mortar beginning of Lima’s second Catholic parish.

LIMA — One generous donation led to the birth of a new legacy in Lima.

In the late 1920s, The Lima News asked business and civic leaders to write short essays for a column titled “Why I Like Lima.”

The wedding on that soft April evening in 1911 was the “brilliant event” of the post-lenten season in Lima society, according to the Lima Morning Star and Republican-Gazette.

A century ago, as Lima residents prepared to mark their third New Year’s Eve without a legal drink, Lima’s Republican-Gazette newspaper insisted the holiday would be a success nonetheless.

For most of December 1882, Lima had dealt with the cold, uncomfortable, inconvenient reality of snow.

Life moved fast for Max F. Eysenbach in December 1941. On Saturday, Dec. 6, he married Mary Elizabeth Herron. The next day Pearl Harbor was attacked. Two days later, he was a citizen of a country at war.

When a stray chimney spark started a fire on the roof of a Shawnee Township home in late April 1912, the Lima Times-Democrat marveled that “within ten minutes after the alarm had been given there were automobiles, motorcycles, buggies, etc., completely blockading the road in front of C.A. Rusler’s home, everybody eager to help put out the fire.”