|
- Historical photos of homes and businesses in the old
<br />town part of Louisville (with or without people in the
<br />photos). Specific buildings need not be identified.
<br />- Photos of the interior or exterior of Red Men's Hall;
<br />scenes showing Louisville's Main Street, Little Italy,
<br />and Frenchtown; and interiors and exteriors of
<br />Louisville's saloons and pool halls.
<br />- Old home movies and negatives of photos relating to
<br />the Louisville area.
<br />- Photos from any era showing areas of current
<br />Louisville that were outside of the town's historic
<br />boundaries, such as South Boulder Rd., McCaslin Blvd.,
<br />Dillon Rd., Cherry St., and Hwy 42.
<br />- Issues of The Louisville Times, or pages of it, from
<br />1913 to 1942 and photos and information relating to
<br />Louisville's newspapers and publishers.
<br />- Items relating to Louisville businesses, including
<br />menus, matchbooks, and ashtrays from Louisville
<br />restaurants.
<br />- Items relating to the history of law enforcement in
<br />Louisville, including photos, records, and artifacts
<br />relating to town marshals, police chiefs, and the Police
<br />Department in general.
<br />- Photographs, programs, The Lookout school
<br />newspaper, and written memories relating to Louisville
<br />schools, particularly items from the Louisville Junior
<br />High & High School when it was located at Garfield &
<br />Walnut from 1920 to 1939.
<br />Also, please see the article below about how the
<br />Museum would like the following vintage phones for its
<br />school outreach program: candlestick, rotary, Trimline,
<br />Touch -Tone, Princess, and cell phones from the 1980s or
<br />1990s.
<br />Calling All Vintage Phones
<br />By Megan Huelman, Museum Technician
<br />As part of a new initiative to provide outreach to local
<br />schools, the Museum is working on an artifact trunk and
<br />program about communication in Louisville. We'll
<br />discuss the historic telephone exchange, early telephone
<br />operators, and how phones have changed over the last
<br />century. I plan to travel to area schools to talk to students
<br />and provide interactive activities for them using an
<br />artifact trunk of vintage phones from the early 20th
<br />century all the way to the first cell phones of the 1980s
<br />and 1990s. We are looking for donations for the
<br />Museum's education collection of the following styles of
<br />phones to be used for this program: candlestick, rotary,
<br />Trimline Touch -Tone, Princess, and cell phones from
<br />the 1980s or 1990s.
<br />Please contact the Museum with any potential donation!
<br />My Memories of Main Street's
<br />Labor Day Festival
<br />By Lois Chiolino Tesone
<br />My memories of Main Street go back to the late 1930s,
<br />40s and 50s.
<br />Most of all, I remember Labor Days — and I can recall
<br />many of the things that went on but not always which
<br />year. I know the Labor Day celebrations started on
<br />Saturday and lasted all weekend. On Saturday morning,
<br />the carnival moved into town and filled up all the empty
<br />lots on Front Street. There was a merry-go-round, a
<br />Ferris wheel, swings and little cars. Also on Saturday
<br />morning, the American Legion men began building the
<br />Bingo stand. It sat on Spruce St. and Main between the
<br />Hub Store on the north and the drug store on the south.
<br />It was a square about 10 feet on each side, I think. It had
<br />benches and boards to play on all around and inside of it
<br />were two or three shelves up high where all the prizes
<br />were. The winner of each game got to choose their gift.
<br />There were blankets, knife sets, pots and pans, irons,
<br />toasters, radios, roller skates and toys for kids. Everyone
<br />in town wanted to play Bingo. The American Legion
<br />men ran the games and they started on Saturday night
<br />along with the carnival. On Sunday, there was a Most
<br />Beautiful Baby contest and a talent show at the Rex
<br />Theater and Bingo at night.
<br />On Monday, Labor Day, The American Legion men in
<br />uniform with the flags and the High School band
<br />marched along with a lot of the miners in town. Then
<br />came the kids with their decorated bikes and wagons and
<br />pets, followed by the floats. It seemed like every
<br />business and organization had a float. Then came the
<br />farmers with their tractors and hay wagons filled with
<br />kids. It was always special and everyone wanted to be in
<br />the parade.
<br />After the parade, everybody stayed downtown and went
<br />to the carnival and restaurants and had lunch and drinks
<br />with friends. After lunch, the games began on Main
<br />Street. There were races for all ages of kids, starting
<br />from the Ford Garage on Walnut to Dalby's store on
<br />Spruce. I especially remember the races because I won
<br />10
<br />
|