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Friday, April 22, 2011

Once Upon a Time at the Old Bus Garage


(Click for larger image) The Lewis-Geer company operated in what some now call the grey "bus garage" on Railroad Street. This is the company that built that building, in 1909. Lewis-Geer made several different models of porch swings, coat hangers, sleds, and, as you can see here, wagons. This looks like a Fourth of July float the company made. Here's an April 9, 1910 Ypsi Press article about the business, in the spring after it started up.