Minster eBay Memorabilia- Dave's Midwestern Ohio Memories

Series of Guest Blogs by an out-of-state Fish Report reader originally from this area about fond memories of growing up in Midwestern Ohio during the 50’s & 60’s

Minster eBay Memorabilia

After last week’s blog about Ft. Loramie eBay offerings, it’s now Minster’s turn. No surprise, there were tons of Wooden Shoe offerings on the auction website, from old bottles, signs as shown above, photos and bottle openers. Some of the more interesting follow and for the entire list, click here.

Bottle  $11.99

Cancelled checks $28.54  

Wooden Shoes $25

Wooden Shoe Keychain $44.54

Soda bottle by SBC Co of Minster with wooden shoe embossed
underneath offered at $7.00. This was the product the brewery
made during Prohibition in the 1920’s.

Wooden Shoe beer openers  $19.00

$25.00

Wooden Shoe had closed in 1954, so my only memories about the beer were stories Mom & Dad would tell as we’d drive by the old brewery on our way to our cousin’s home in Minster. At that time, the building was used as a canning factory for processing tomatoes grown on surrounding farms. Speaking of stories, the Shelby County Historical Society has this wonderful article about the Old Wooden Shoe Brewery. And don’t forget about the Wooden Shoe Inn, still in business serving wonderful chicken dinners. Click here for a previous blogpost about Wooden Shoe.

There were also lots of offerings associated with Minster Machine, such as this ash tray and many expensive Minster punch presses.

$3.50

$46,500

This 1958 photo of downtown Minster brought back many memories, some of which were captured in this previous blogpost about Minster businesses.

1958 FOURTH ST PHOTO $1.99

But I don’t recall Pete’s Place, a grocery owned by Peter Schwenzor.

Pete's Place 5 cent token: $39.99

FleetWing match book cover offered for $4.98. The gas station was operated by Schafer Oil Company, owned by the father of one of my high school classmates.

This small screwdriver offered for $14.99 was a Christmas present to customers of Hoying and Westerheide hardware store. One of the owners was my grandpa’s brother. To this day, I enjoy hardware stores to this day thanks in large part to my great uncle allowing me to tinker with the goods on display in the store.

A similar screwdriver in much better condition from Streakers implement dealer was being offered at $12.52. I had an uncle that worked at Streakers for many years, and because of that connection, Dad always bought his Oliver tractors and other implements from his brother.

ST. AUGUSTINE’S CHURCH POSTCARD $10.58

There were a number of Minster High School Fanfare yearbooks also being offered from $16-$20, and I was intrigued by the themes of the various editions. For example:

1993 - Out of Control

1994 - What’s Your Point

1998 All Mixed Up

2001 Pushing The Limits

2004 Yearbook - Mix It Up

Minster’s school administrators must exerted much less editorial control on their Yearbook staff than when I was in high school!

It’s amazing what one can find on eBay and the Internet. I’ll keep searching, reviving and sharing those old memories.

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