Dad would have been 75 but went to his eternal reward a few years ago. I doubt if Mom would know any of those that Dad worked with. Dad used to bring buttered bread to work and then fill it with bologna there. He got so sick of bologna that he just couldn't eat it any more. His name was Byron Bell. Terry Bell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken & Gloria Olson" <kogoassc@elknet.net> To: <WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [WIRICHLA] Bohmann Creamery > Hi Terry, > My dad also worked at Bohmann's until Frank closed the doors in 1953.Dad > worked there many years. > He is passing 90 now but remembers all the > old customers and little country stores he stopped delivering meat. > The funny one is about the dogs waiting for the truck to roll in at his > stops.Dad gave them the broken ends of the wieners. > Gloria > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terry Bell (by way of Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net>)" > <terrybell@tds.net> > To: <WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:33 PM > Subject: Re: [WIRICHLA] Bohmann Creamery > > > > Gloria > > > > Mom says that Dad used to work at the Bohrmann meat packing plant. > Neither > > my cousin in Richland county nor my mother could remember a Bohrmann > > creamery. > > > > both elm grove and pine grove dairies cut their prices by .03 a gallon to > > compete (mom says). three cents dosen't seem much to us today when milk > is > > $3.00 a gallon or more but this was fifty years ago. I remember dad > making > > $100.00 a week and he was doing real well then. Now it takes ten times > that > > to do well. > > > > "those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end............" > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ken & Gloria Olson (by way of Tim Stowell > > <tstowell@chattanooga.net>)" <kogoassc@elknet.net> > > To: <WIRICHLA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:01 AM > > Subject: [WIRICHLA] Bohmann Creamery > > > > > > > Does anyone out there remember a Bohmann Creamery in Richland Center? > > > I remember an Elm Grove Diary and I believe a Pine Grove Diary that > > > delivered milk to the door. > > > Frank Bohmann owned the meat packing plant in R.C. > > > in the 40's and 50's but I cannot recall a creamery. > > > Thanks, > > > Gloria > > > > > > > > > > > >