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The library's historical collections contain photographs of young ladies from Sandusky visiting South Bass Island in 1919 and
1920. Pictured below are Ruth Beach, Helen Rheinegger and Verna Bornhauser, who
were all in their late teens at the time.
The young ladies also visited Hotel Victory during
their visit in 1919. They posed for a snapshot on the ladder of
the (apparently empty) hotel swimming pool. Sadly, the Hotel Victory was destroyed
by fire on August 14, 1919.
On May 22, 1920, Verna Bornhauser and Dorothy Sturm posed
on the barrel of a cannon in the park at Put-in-Bay.
This picture was taken on the road to a visit to the
state fish hatcheries:
Residents of Sandusky were fortunate to have easy
access to steamboat transportation to the Lake Erie Islands. The Frank Kirby was just one
of the steamers that ferried passengers to Put-in-Bay in 1919 and 1920.
2 comments:
Thank you for the history. My family in those days were Homer Ennes and Minerva Ennes their daughter Leila Ennes Hastings and her husband William Hastings and their daughters Marian Hastings, Helen Hastings, and Ruth Hastings. They lived on South Bass Island and in Sandusky on Vines Street. Any records?
The library has a few records of interest, but much information is likely available through online genealogy services such as Ancestry (which is available for use at no charge in the Sandusky Library and most public libraries). From listings in the 1919-20 Sandusky City Directory, Minerva Ennes and Leila Hastings were both widows and living together at 913 Vine Street. Mr. Ennes died on September 10, 1924 (from an obituary in the Sandusky Register.
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