Super interesting. Thanks for this. Unfortunately my grandfathers property on shoupe rd. Actually had the original settlement. Original school etc. but it all burned with the fire. but I don’t think many people knew about that. I remember him feeding all different types of foxes as well. That lived under the original school house. His property also had graves from the 1800s Sherriff Stoney also wrote a memoir of his time there in the 1950s-70s. It I’ve been an able to track down a copy. Would you hav open to know anything about that memoir ?
I bumped into your video during a search of something else. It was nice to see some history from Black Forest before the fires, and before some of the old places were taken down to put big houses in. I shared it with my Facebook friends, many of which are also native Black Foresters. It was a nice journey through the past. Thank you!
@5:10 Yes it does, but occasionally just one half of the tree will get the frost, the other half stays green. @8:33 Mrs. Wolford was the principal of Black Forest Elementary when I attended the school. And a fun fact, there is an iris bulb named "Edith Wolford" that you can buy. @9:38 No, that's the new one (from my perspective). Dutch Shultz blew up the old fire station. I was a member of BFVFD and I remember that old truck. @10:34 This is also where the bookmobile would park on Thursdays during the summer when the schools were closed. We would walk from Creekview road to the bookmobile to check out three books for the week (the limit in those days) and then back home again. Seven miles, and barefoot (only had to wear shoes for church). @11:58 I don't know if it was for this church, but we bought an old pedal organ which used to make the trip from the dance hall on Saturday to the church on Sunday (I think in Ellicott. I can't recall the name of the lady that we bought it from. @12:35 Gambles also housed the post office after the sale of Black Forest Lumber. The space was tiny, about the size of a couple of picnic tables. @14:35 What a wonderful lady. :) We visited her at her home off of Shoup Rd one afternoon and she was delighted to see us. @21:25 When I attended school there in the late 60s, we had our art class in a one-room school house (the old Bleeker school?) that was brought in. And we were there for a major upgrade and had to attend classes in portable buildings as well. @35:02 You can see this from Google Maps. :) @38:23 Fred Carver had the best junkyard for finding parts for old cars. I went to school with his son Hugh. @38:58 Glover's corner was our usual go-to spot on a Saturday morning (since it was about a mile closer than Gambles). If we could manage to scrounge up three empty pop bottles (three bottles per kid) we would carry them with us to Glover's and turn them in for 30 cents. That would in turn get us a coke, and 20 pieces of penny candy. Well worth the trip. :) And yes, Mrs. Glover would be spinning in her grave. :) @41:09 Glad you mentioned the glider port. But you missed the site of the 1960 Boy Scout jamboree, which back then at the intersection of Academy and Hwy 83 might as well of been in Black Forest. :) IIFC Mrs. Hardin owned the Black Forest News back in the day. It would be nice to know the history of Mrs. Goodin, who lived in an old log cabin on the SW corner of Milam and Creek View Rd. She was a widow in her 80s (I think) when we moved to Black Forest in '67. Our place at the end of Creek View Rd. had logging trails that you could still see. :)
You truly know your Old Timer history. I'm a Black Forest Native and my mother and her family grew up here and lived in the house on the South West Corner of Herring Rd and Swan Rd. You likely know them and maybe went to school with them. They are also friends' of H. Carver and bought candy from Mrs. Glover every morning before school. They moved here in in 1969!
Also, I like how you know some of the lesser known "interesting history" of the original Black Forest Fire Station. Not many people know that info, and some deny it. I'm a current firefighter with the BFFR.
@@link5629 I had a long reply and Chrome crashed. Grr... But it was fun to bring up the old memories. :) But the Dutch Shultz story probably (most certainly) is somewhere in the past issues of the "Black Forest News". And my father was a member of BFVFD before me. Dad was one of the guys who fought the fire at the Nash's house, across the street from where Creek View Rd. teed into Milam Rd. The story on Dutch was that he was using gasoline as a cleaning agent, in the station, and close (or close enough) to the furnace when things blew up and blew out the back wall of the station. Dutch was not injured, and we got a new station. Win-win. :) There were nine of us kids so there's a good chance that your Mom knows at least one of us. I was in the class of 1975. And ask her if she had Col. Hill as a history teacher (if she went to AAHS). He is a WWII, Korea, & Vietnam vet as well as one of the nicest guys you will ever meet. And at 98 he's still with us. I spoke to him just last year. :) And please tell H. Carver that John Waalkes said "hi" and that his father's junkyard was the coolest one known to man. Mr. C had the best collection of old '50s era "Firedomes" and cars like that. He restored many of them, and they were gorgeous once he was finished with the restoration. Ask him if there are any of the old cars left from back then. :) And please mention that I have a '69 Corvair as well as a '72 Triumph TR6. And our old address was "Rural Route #3" before we got a street address, we were on a party line for a short time, and you could call any number in the exchange with just the last 5 numerals of your phone number. So instead of 495-5555, you could dial 5-5555. @12:35 the Gambles store (now the "Firehouse") was where the Post Office was. The corner of the building past the motorcycle was where the Post Office was located. So did you fight the fire of '13? What a monster that one was. The biggest that we had was the grass fire out near Ellicott that ended up destroying Ellicott's brand new brush truck (what happens when it's parked it on the wrong side of the fire).
Sir this is so exciting! So my Mother is Theresa Knapp and her brothers and sisters are Roger, Larry, and Cindy Knapp. Sons and daughters of Dean and Marylin Knapp who lived in the green house on the SW corner of Swan and Herring. Mom graduated AAHS in 1971! Uncle Larry Knapp(The youngest) graduated in 1974! Mom says she did not have Mr. Hill as a history teacher but she does remember him! So, my mother told me the firehouse had caught fire years back (What year was that anyway?) I told my Fire captain at the time and he told me I was full of BS. I knew my mother wasn't lying but also had no details on the event. She remembered that they were either cleaning parts or the bay floor with gasoline when the thing caught fire. But that's all she could remember! I've wanted to get more details on this incident for many years but could find no information online! So was the station that blew up the one built in 1955? Who was the chief at that time?! I would like to hear more about the Nash Fire! I did fight the Black Forest Fire of 2013 but I was brand new at the time and didn't even have wildland firefighting certs yet! (I joined the department in Autumn of 2012) So I was a supply delivery boy in an ambulance haha! But my first structure fire ever was at the house just north of Creek View Road in March of 2014! I will definitely tell H. Carver when I see him next that you say hi! And I will tell him about the cars you have! We just had him up for Thanksgiving Dinner this past November! I used to wander around that junk yard when I was a small child while my uncles talked with Hugh! Mom says they were on Rural Route #4! The forest has certainly changed in many ways over the years! @@MrWaalkman
My mom and aunt Cindy were best friends with Annette Demel who lived near Mrs. French on Clair lane. I believe her uncle was Ken Kirchhofer. Mom also went to school with Gary Manfrin who was a BFVFD back in the day.@@MrWaalkman
@ 3:31 add MTN Lions, Black Bear, and Prog horn (Antelope) MORE OFTEN.... see the MTN Lions around here last two years. Have some on my CAM. Great VID love it here
