Local writers and stories
By: Stan Jordan The above picture of 103 West River St. is now Small Town Bliss, that is a beauty salon owned and operated by Audrey Feasby. Let me tell you what I know about the history of this building and lot…well, this whole area. This building went along with the big store on the…
By: Stan Jordan This fine picture was taken in the Ice Cream Depot, probably in the 1990’s. Mr. & Mrs. Reinhart were the owners there from 1986 for the next twenty years. Every year the teachers and their helpers would bring the lower grade students down town to see the bank and stop in at…
By: Stan Jordan Last week I showed you a picture of the Ice Cream Depot. In the next couple of issues, I will talk more about the depot and its history to me and Antwerp. In 1986, Kenny and Doris Reinhart bought that lot and building form a man in Toledo. It had been resided…
By: Stan Jordan The picture above is the Ice Cream Depot here in Antwerp, but that is just what it ended up as. That building and lot are as much as Antwerp’s history as any other and a lot more than some. When I started school back in 1930, that was a small but nice…
TALK ABOUT HISTORY By: Stan Jordan I am very lucky to get this old picture of the railroad square here in Antwerp. It was given to me by Walter Lang and I surely appreciate it. It is the only photo that I have seen that shows that little white building right in the middle, which…
VILLAGE HARDWARE By: Stan Jordan The above photo is just full of history. I hope I don’t forget some of it. Henry George built the brick building where the Oasis is. Frank Lamb built the next three buildings. All of those buildings were on stilts because there was a big ravine and hogs and chickens…
THE VILLAGE APOTHECARY By: Stan Jordan When I was a boy, the Antwerp Exchange Bank occupied the left half of this building, established in 1893 by A.P. Murphy. When I was young, H.K. Harris was cashier and Mary Moore was assistant cashier. H.K. died in 1942 and Ralph Carr became bank president. The bank has…
THE OLD AMERICAN LEGION BUILDING By: Stan Jordan Where the new dental office is now, was a shoe repair shop owned by Joe Barber when I was a young fellow. And on the corner, where now stands the memorabilia shop, used to be a gas station, operated by Ike Boyce and Dorsey Waters, they sold…
The West Bend News was called early this morning (May 23) by Paulding County’s EMA Director Ed Bohn to report a possible tornado. The video feed was taken by Engaging Exposures Classic Photography’s drone. Along State Road 111, east of County Road 133 is a Dairy Farm that took heavy damage from what is believed…
TIM’S DINER By: Stan Jordan This picture was given to me and I’m sure it was taken out of an issue of the Antwerp Bee Argus back in 1979. The young man there is Tim Peffly, a graduate of Antwerp High School 1970. The caption tells all about his open house. I’m going to tell…
THE ANTWERP INSURANCE AGENCY By: Stan Jordan The lot for this picture has a lot of history. As I remember, it was a red shed like there. Dave Johnson had a blacksmith business for many years. He also had another shed like, across the street where now the post office is. Jake Tracy had this…
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…
