Posted in: Misc Mondays Misc Monday: Twin Oaks Home & Garden Tour

At 555 Kessler Boulevard, West Drive, Lyman S. Ayres II and his wife, Isabel, built a Colonial Revival style home named “Twin Oaks” in 1941. The Ayres family moved into the house in January 1942,...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Lilly Hardware Company

This ad, from 1922, features an electric iron – a product available for almost forty years by that time.  What is more remarkable is the history of the local vendor of this iron – Lilly...

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