Local writers and stories
EAST DAGGETT & SOUTH MAIN By: Stan Jordan There are two buildings here and I will tell you what I remember about them. Dave Zuber had a wooden grocery store there on the left side for years. Then it was made into a brick building and sold to Alex Grant about 1912. George Bakle had…
L. SMITH & SON Building By: Stan Jordan The above picture of the L. Smith & Son building is a lot of Antwerp’s late history. This was a big hardware store, electrical appliances, automotive dealer, farm machinery and garage work. Lewis Smith and his son, Carl, moved to Antwerp from Defiance in 1908. There were…
TINY’S & YAGER’S By: Stan Jordan Tiny’s – This is on the corner of Stone and South Main Street and it is as much of Antwerp’s history as I can imagine. On the left is Tiny DeLong’s Lunch. At sometime, every Antwerp citizen has been in that lunch room. When Tiny came home from WWI…
By: Stan Jordan When I was a little lad this was a vacant lot. At the turn of the century that was a big grocery store. There was a store here called Berdan Co. of Toledo. I don’t know what happened to it, but it was gone by 1930. In the 1930’s and 1940’s there…
THE CRUMLEY BLOCK By: Stan Jordan What is now the Subway, years ago (1926) was the Battershell Variety Store. Then just to the right of that was Dr. Caines office, then to the right of that was the Shadow Beauty Salon. But in the mid 1930’s Hertels had a watch repair and jewelry store. Just…
THE CUP RESTAURANT By: Stan Jordan Here is an inside and out side picture of The Cup Restaurant. This picture was given to me by Dan Hahn and it is from Mr. Ehrhart’s collection, and I am tickled to get it. I have never seen an inside shot before. At that time we patronized that…
THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF 424 & 49 By: Stan Jordan This picture now is of the student driving school, Mr. Mike Mudel is the instructor and the place is called Right Turn Driving Academy. There has been a number of businesses there over the years. I will tell you about some of them, but I…
Leinard Garage By: Stan Jordan From what I can remember and I’m not sure at all, Jack Leinard and Harry Parent started this business about 1932. Then I think Harry Parent sold out and went to New Haven and then it became Leinard Chevrolet. If you will notice, in the picture it shows Leinard’s has…
By: Stan Jordan This is sort of a testimonial of a blue and red farm truck that works for Kenny Hahn and Nick Bragg. I am a 1982 Chevrolet farm truck and I would like to publish my history before I end up in the crusher. For years, I hauled grain for a nice fellow…
FRANK LAMB By: Stan Jordan As a young man he learned the barber trade and started a shop in a small building next to what is now the Oasis, but at that time was the forerunner of the Antwerp Exchange Bank. Later on he built or had built a lot of Antwerp business buildings like…
THE CITY HALL By: Stan Jordan This is the second city hall for Antwerp. The first one was down on the southeast corner of Stone and Erie Street. I don’t know when it was built. There was a lot of people who didn’t want to spend the $8000 for a new city hall, but after…
THE GENESIS HOUSE By: Stan Jordan The Genesis House is the first house north of Town Hall and it has a lot of history. I will tell you what I remember about it. It has been remodeled a number of times from when I first remember it. Back in 1930 and a little later, a…
By: Stan Jordan This is an old picture of the West Elevator in Antwerp, about 1952 or 53. You can see they were just starting to build those big silos. They were made of cement so they had to pour 24 hours a day, 3 shifts a day. A lot of farmers helped on the…
