[AT] Re: Floyd River

[Dean VP]

Kathy:

The Langels name has a slight ring to it but it's just been too many years.
I have trouble with my own name at times!  :-) There are three eating spots
in Lemars other than the new Wells Ice Cream store that are still in my
memory. The Wayside, Archie's Steak House and Bob's Drive In right on
highway 75.  Ended up in the Deans office at college for eating a steak at
the Wayside one time. Only Sioux County people would understand why that
occurred. And you really don't want to know why!

Bob's hotdogs are so unique that we have to stop in there at least once
while visiting NW Iowa. In the 50's it was THE place to go with a date. My
God, has it been over 50 years already? And the place is still there. Oh and
yes, a truck stop a little further South on 75. And then there was the OK
Café in Alton, IA. Gee whiz, I'm reliving my teenage years. And Elvis
Presley is still alive too!  :-) 

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
storeroom door 


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-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Dallas and Kathy
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 6:24 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Floyd River

Dean, Did you know any of the Langels from Lemars? My mother was a Langel. 
She grew up on the Floyd, as did her whole family. Dallas was born by Craig.

But he has lived on the same place by Akron for over 52 years. 
Kathy   ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:03 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Re: Floyd River


> Gene:
>
> I don't recognize the name but I sure didn't know many people from Akron 
> to
> begin with and I have essentially been gone from that area since 1958. 
> Good
> friends are a treasure and I'm sure you miss him. I suspect only "good"
> pilots survived very long!  :-)
>
> I flew in the AF ROTC program and then later wanted very much to get a
> private pilots license but the responsibility of 4 children delayed it 
> long
> enough until the burning desire went away.
>
> Now I'm too old. Having spent way too much of my working life on 
> commercial
> airplanes I tend to stay away from airplanes and airports altogether. Same
> as motel rooms. My wife would like to travel more, I don't, except to hunt
> for antique tractor parts. A different objective.
>
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
> I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
> storeroom door
>
>
> www.deerelegacy.com
>
> http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Gene Dotson
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:59 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Floyd River
>
>    Dean;
>    I had a good friend and fellow pilot from Akron, Ia. He was
> a practicing doctor in Akron for many years. his name was
> Leonard Brooks. Unfortunately he passed away 2 years ago. We
> would always attend our July fly-in at Starbuck, Minnesota. He
> was a fine gentleman and god pilot. I do miss seeing him there.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:14 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] Re: Floyd River
>
>
> : Ron/Kathy:
> :
> : I agree, good to hear from the folks close to the old
> farmstead. Keep it
> : coming. Lemars is only 12 miles South of where I was born and
> raised. Played
> : Baseball and Fast Pitch softball in Akron many times. Akron
> suffered from
> : the same Malaise due to the Big Sioux as did those towns next
> to the Floyd.
> : When both flooded and dumped into Sioux City at the same time,
> it was
> : trouble right here in river city.
> :
> : We used to take a highway from our home place along the Big
> Sioux River into
> : North Sioux City (Prairie Creek Road?) to go to a place called
> the Normandy
> : Restaurant, an eat all you want kind of place. That was a very
> rare and a
> : big treat for us farmers. I have no idea if it is still there
> or not.
> :
> :
> : Dean A. Van Peursem
> : Snohomish, WA 98290
> :
> : I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key
> to the
> : storeroom door
> :
> :
> : www.deerelegacy.com
> :
> : http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
> :
> :
> :
> : -----Original Message-----
> : From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> : [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
> Ronald L. Cook
> : Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 7:54 AM
> : To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> : Subject: Re: [AT] Re: Floyd River
> :
> : Hello, Kathy.
> :          I enjoy hearing of the Floyd and Big Sioux rivers.
> It is nice to
> : visit about familiar places and events.  Don't be shy.  Just
> post away.
> :
> : Ron Cook
> : Salix, IA
> : >Hi ya'all, We have been here for a rather long time, but have
> been to shy
> : >and too busy to post. My mother grew up along the Floyd just
> south of
> : >LeMars. She used to tell of all of the times that "a wall of
> water" was
> : >rolling down the river. They would scoot out and retrieve the
> cattle to
> : >prevent their drowning. The buildings were about a quarter of
> a mile from
> : >the river. She had many pictures of the water right up to the
> buildings.
> : >My husbands Mother lives on the Big Sioux right across from
> Akron, Iowa.
> : >She Has been underwater sooo many times. She has told of the
> 8' wall of
> : >water that came down in 1923. Their horses drowned. And of
> course, there
> : >are flash flood watches and warnings for this night and
> : >tomorrow.    Signed by the wife of an antique tractor addict.
> Kathy
> :
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