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… if it hadn't been sent to Ainsworth's own Cecil Tonagel.
Now that we have access to the 1940 Census, we can find Cecil and Ruby Tonagel in Ainsworth (with their children and her parents), operating their little grocery store.
Here is Cecil Tonagel circa 1959:
Image courtesy of the Merrillville/Ross Township Historical Society.
The sender of the postcard, Bud Gierke, may have been Leon R. Gierke of Porter County.
But who was "Lefty," and what about him?
2 comments:
Was Tonagel's store at the site of the present School Store on 73rd and 51?? When I was a kid we used to ride bikes all over the country roads out that way and would stop for cold pop where we could. Their store was about the only place out that way that I remember
Yes -- I'm not sure if it's actually the same building, but it's the same site.
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