Or have you tried, unsuccessfully? (Once that 1933 business directory arrived, it didn't list your grandpa's shop in it after all, it was just a selectively edited vanity publication?)
One of my favourite searches on eBay is "Hutchinson Kansas" followed by "Hutchinson KS," "Reno county Kansas," or "Allagaroo." Most of the things I've bought were just general Hutch things which I liked or of which I just wanted a picture.
You can set up a search in eBay which will automatically notify you by email when something matching your search turns up for sale. Had I thought to do that with my great-great-grandfather's name Stephen Asbury Brink or Rev. Stephen Brink, I would have been able to buy a photo of him for five dollars. I missed that, but it still found its way to me via a stranger. Another woman bought it for another reason: she was researching the town and churches of New Boston, Illinois. With the info she received a picture of Rev. Brink. She checked http://www.ancestry.com/ for someone related, which is how she found me. The photo of him was very helpful in two ways. It was a close-up portrait of his face as a younger man, and, I had never known of his tenure there at that New Boston church in Mercer County, Illinois.
Next is an UNsuccessful find from eBay. Maybe by posting them here, they will become meaningful to someone else.
The scant eBay info was "Parade in Hutchinson June 7th, 1941." I don't think it's Hutchinson at all.
I checked the Hutch newspapers on and before that date. No mention of a Main Street parade that week. Do you recognize anything?
The only writing from the pictures I could make out was the word "ENTERPRISE" written on both windows of the middle business shown in the fourth photograph. Arlington, in Reno County, had a newspaper called the Arlington Enterprise, but this does not look like Arlington, either. What town is this? Does it look familiar to you?
- Cordelia Brown
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