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Always have lots of pep

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, April 29, 2016

Were you ever in an Ada High School pep band? What instrument did you play?

Here's the players from one-half century past - the 1965-66 school year.

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Don't tell me, I know these people

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Say it isn't so.

Fifty years. Here's the Ada High School National Honor Society from the 1965-66 school year. Who do you recognize?

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When did automatic crossing gates arrive in Ada? Ask Lee Crouse

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
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On Feb. 16, 1960 automated crossing gates were in operation at all three Ada rail crossings. The cost of the gates was $75,000.

On Wednesday Feb. 17, 1960, the watchman’s tower, which stood at Main Street for half a century was removed.

Old-timers recalled Vance Botkin as a watchman and more recently Ernest Nixon and James Curtis.

 

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You know someone in this photo

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, April 11, 2016

You certainly recognized some of the members of this talented group. It's the 1985-86 version of the Ada High School Varsity Singers.

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During the E.A. VanAtta era

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, April 4, 2016

Recognize anyone? It's the Ada Exempted Village School Board of Education during the 1955-56 school year.

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It was the 1970-71 school year

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Here's the Ada High School "office girls" from 45 school years ago. Do you recognize anyone in this photo?

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