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Pictures 1960's to 70's


Before 1920
1920's & 30's
1940's & 50's
1960's & 1970's
1980' & 1990's2000's
Illinois Central Rail Road (ICRR) Pictures


About 1963 just after Pentecost bought the Methodist church building.
Some names are: Jeannie Bazor, Bill Mathis, Sue Bazor, France's Wieneke, Ka Nelson, Harriet Troutt, Carl Craig, John Bacon sr., Carl Day, Gladys Day, George and Flora Reeves, Sara Johnson, Johnnie Bill Wieneke, Prescilla Hilton, Leatrice Wieneke, Faye Nelson, Dora Bazor, Teresa Wieneke







Big Bay Main Street 1960's



Big Bay Store 1960's. That's a 1962 chevy. 
Carl and Irene Foss proprietors



Kay Nelson (L) Mary Sexton (R)
Inside Boot's Store 1965

New Columbia School July 23, 1970
New Columbia School July 23, 1970





Sign on porch reads "Burnett's Store".
John and Alma Burnett were the last to operate a grocery in Reevesville. It closed in the early 1980's.



Inside Burnett's Grocery, Reevesville 1970's
Top picture Jim Cox and Richard Wright.
Bottom: John Wynn and LeeRoy Stafford.



Gene, Buck, and Lindell Hazel
1960's? - Lived on a farm just north or town. (Now Manley's)


1960's - Frank and Freda Marberry


1960's - Jim Bazor and Pilkey Burnett.
Jim was possibly the strongest make in Reevesville, he worked the local section gang on the ICRR.
Pilkey owned a farm about 3 miles up the road from R'ville.


1960's John Burnett on his HD



Early 1960's
Left - Joyce Shaw
Mid - JoLynn Clymore
Right - Judy Burnett
Methodist Youth Fellowship Bake Sale.
Kids in background - names unknown


Wright Family 1960's
L to R: James, Lois, Robert (Butch), Roy Lee (Pinky),Lillie Jane, Barbara, Thomas, Glenda - Children of Glenn and Bertha




Gaynel (Taylor) Hunt, Ed Taylor, Stanley Taylor 1960s


Aline Cummins in front of Boot's Store in 1968


Harold Dowd in front of Boot's Store, 1970's

Boot Fishing the Bay in the 1970s



Wieneke Grocery Store 1959


Roy Lee (pinky) Wright, Wimpy Stafford and Silas Goodson after loading Pilkey's (E.L. Burnett) pickup with fresh cut bales of hay.



John Burnett and Kenny Choate


John Troutt, Gerald Taylor, and Duke Staton of Samoth sittin on porch of I.C. Cafe


Kenny Choat in front of Calvin Miller's store
(Later Wieneke and then Burnett store).





Walter and Alma McGinnis - Taking a relaxing break.
Walter can't stop long so he keeps his gloves on.



Gilda and Barb

Jeannie Bazor purchasing some lunch meat from Boot.  Sometime in the 60's?

Aline Sorting Mail

Jimmy Bazor Fixing a Flat Tire

John Burnett and His Dynamite Corvair