Island 1956
| Description: |
Front: Script in upper right reads, Winona from the Air, Winona Lake, Indiana.Back: Printed script at top left reads, Winona from the air. Shore line shown extends from Winona Hotel to Lake front Cafeteria. Billy Sunday Memorial Tabernacle roof can be seen to left. Body of message reads, Wed 9:30 A.M. 7-25-56. Dear Sid:- Noddy and Joe just left Will return tomorrow. R.J. has the beds made and will soon be getting ready to usher. Mr. Bradfield is the head usher again and R. J. is glad. We got our badges and I went over and got our humn books. We are glad you are coming up with Helen and Them. Edna Ramsey is coming Sat. I am so glad. Mrs. Harvey and I got to meetings. As ever, Aunt Bec. Addressed to, Mrs. E.C. Rothinghouse, 213 Lincoln Ave. Alexandria Indiana. The writer of the card pens an accurate description of points of interest pictured on the card. They mention that Mr. Bradfield would be he head usher. They are probably referring to Norman Bradfield a Winona Lake resident.McDonald Island is a man made island. This land was formerly a peninsula of low ground with marshy edges. John Thorpe, a Chicago landscape architect devised a plan to improve the value of this ground. In the Spring Fountain days there was a horse driving park, and horse race track with sheds and ballgrounds with a 1,000 seat grandstand. The Beyer Brothers held agriculture fairs here. Thorpes plan included dredging a canal, spreading the two feet of dredge materials and lowering the lake level one foot to provide 300 building lots. Alexander McDonald, the President of Standard Oil of Kentucky, paid for the dredging and the steel bridges needed to complete the project. The dredging required two passes of the steam powered dredge removing a 25 foot wide strip each time. The dredging was started in 1901. |
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| Origin: | 1956-07-25 |
| Created By: |
Curteich-Chicago "C.T. American Art." (Published by: Winona Lake Christian Assembly, Inc., Winona Lake, Ind.) |
| Source: |
http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15705coll8/id/466 |
| Collection: |
Grace College - Winona Lake Postcards |
| Copyright: |
Contact Morgan Library, Winona Lake, IN for copy and usage permissions |
| Geography: |
Winona Lake (Ind.) |
| Subjects: |
Island |
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