THE HINTZMAN HOME
Purchased in 1945 from the Hughes Estate for $700.
My parents, Lou and Curly Hintzman, spent several years fixing up the home and making 2 apartments, upstairs and downstairs, using a double drive in garage under the house, to help make the payments on the home. Diane and Linda grew up in the home, which was first painted barn red to the disgust of most of the neighbors! We walked to and from school everyday, coming home for lunch.
In the summer, I played all day with the neighbor kids in the triangle park across the street, or down by the railroad station/stockyards. My parents never worried about us, and always knew we would come home when hungry or tired. Our home was sold in the seventies and my parents lived in a mobile home near Shady Beach.
It's always a sad day when the homestead is sold and people come to the sale and buy all the wonderful things you grew up with and it's equally as hard when, in your later years, you drive by your old "home" and the new owners have not put the "love and devotion" into the house you had hoped they would.
