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Recollections
Chapter 10
Glad to be back! And I hope all of you have enjoyed the Lisco History as much as I have. I have been Talking to people and doing research concerning people and businesses in Oshkosh. People just aren't responding as much as I thought they would, to WRITE what they know about the Oskhosh businesses for the file. They WILL TALK and tell me many things, that's great! I appreciate that fact. But I can't write as fast as they talk and when I ask them to go slowly, it upsets their line of thought. So oral history may have to be the answer! By oral history, I mean taping people’s conversations. The problem is, I don't have recording equipment and I am not sure just how to proceed with such a project. What are your suggestions? Many people tell me that they are very interested in the historical facts in my “Recollections." So please think about it and perhaps someone can volunteer to do some recording on tapes. That doesn't mean that I won't gladly welcome getting all the written records that people will give me for the file. Thank you.
Viola Caslin told me that Orion (Bud Woods) played the player piano for the movies for several months when Mrs. Wynes had the silent movies, probably in the middle or late 1920's.
In the last paragraph of Part 8, there is a correction necessary. Jeanette Dutton was a bit confused about the whereabouts of the location of the hotel and livery barn that the J. J. Caslins operated. The hotel was the one on the EAST side of Main Street that later was the old Courthouse. The livery barn was located south, also on the east side of Main Street, probably where the used car lot is, north of the Chevrolet garage.
BANKS
The first bank in Oshkosh was the Deuel County Bank, organized in 1904 by J.W. Wehn. For the first few months, the business was crowded into the sitting room of the Miller Hotel. (You folks remember, the Jake Millers ran the hotel in the first building in Oshkosh, built as the general store and Oshkosh post office, later, the A. Sudman Co. store. Then when Sudman moved the store up to the old corner store, the Millers began managing it as the Miller Hotel.) The bank then moved into a new frame building, built especially for a banking house. When the Union Pacific railroad was surveyed and located, the new bank was, unfortunately, found to be in the middle of the right-of-way, so they sold the building to the railroad and moved the banking business into a small frame building on the east side of Main Street. No one has been able to say for sure just which building it was, but probably in the 300 block as it is now. The railroad sold the building to Archie Wynes to H. Bushnell and it became the post office, with Archie Wynes as postmaster, as explained in Part 2. When they moved into another new building (the building on the west side of Main Street that is now the south part of McCormac's Variety Store at 374 Main), in 1911, this bank was
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Object Description
| Title | Helen M. Robinson's recollections |
| Description | This manuscript contains an edited collection of articles written for the Garden County News between June 14, 1984 and December 4, 1986. Mrs. Robinson and contributors reminisce about the businesses, people and activities in Oshkosh, Nebraska, from the early 1900s on. |
| Creator | Robinson, Helen M. |
| Contributors | Garden County News; Allen, Carol |
| Publisher | Garden County Historical Society |
| Date | 1987 |
| Type | Text |
| Subject |
Business enterprises -- Nebraska -- Oshkosh Business people -- Nebraska -- Oshkosh People -- Nebraska -- Oshkosh Recreation -- Nebraska -- Oshkosh Oshkosh (Neb.) Clippings Manuscripts |
| Owning Institution | Garden County Historical Society |
| Source | Original manuscript |
| Notes | Information in one chapter might be corrected or added onto in subsequent chapters as readers contacted the writer, so be sure to read on or search by name to get all the details. The text is fully searchable. Only 500 copies were printed from this manuscript. |
| Language |
eng |
| Ordering and Use | http://www.memories.ne.gov/rights/gchs.html |
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| Title | Chapter 10; Page 39 |
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Recollections Chapter 10 Glad to be back! And I hope all of you have enjoyed the Lisco History as much as I have. I have been Talking to people and doing research concerning people and businesses in Oshkosh. People just aren't responding as much as I thought they would, to WRITE what they know about the Oskhosh businesses for the file. They WILL TALK and tell me many things, that's great! I appreciate that fact. But I can't write as fast as they talk and when I ask them to go slowly, it upsets their line of thought. So oral history may have to be the answer! By oral history, I mean taping people’s conversations. The problem is, I don't have recording equipment and I am not sure just how to proceed with such a project. What are your suggestions? Many people tell me that they are very interested in the historical facts in my “Recollections." So please think about it and perhaps someone can volunteer to do some recording on tapes. That doesn't mean that I won't gladly welcome getting all the written records that people will give me for the file. Thank you. Viola Caslin told me that Orion (Bud Woods) played the player piano for the movies for several months when Mrs. Wynes had the silent movies, probably in the middle or late 1920's. In the last paragraph of Part 8, there is a correction necessary. Jeanette Dutton was a bit confused about the whereabouts of the location of the hotel and livery barn that the J. J. Caslins operated. The hotel was the one on the EAST side of Main Street that later was the old Courthouse. The livery barn was located south, also on the east side of Main Street, probably where the used car lot is, north of the Chevrolet garage. BANKS The first bank in Oshkosh was the Deuel County Bank, organized in 1904 by J.W. Wehn. For the first few months, the business was crowded into the sitting room of the Miller Hotel. (You folks remember, the Jake Millers ran the hotel in the first building in Oshkosh, built as the general store and Oshkosh post office, later, the A. Sudman Co. store. Then when Sudman moved the store up to the old corner store, the Millers began managing it as the Miller Hotel.) The bank then moved into a new frame building, built especially for a banking house. When the Union Pacific railroad was surveyed and located, the new bank was, unfortunately, found to be in the middle of the right-of-way, so they sold the building to the railroad and moved the banking business into a small frame building on the east side of Main Street. No one has been able to say for sure just which building it was, but probably in the 300 block as it is now. The railroad sold the building to Archie Wynes to H. Bushnell and it became the post office, with Archie Wynes as postmaster, as explained in Part 2. When they moved into another new building (the building on the west side of Main Street that is now the south part of McCormac's Variety Store at 374 Main), in 1911, this bank was -39- |
