Anyone here from cherryvale?

[Okey Dokie]

Originally Posted by RomulusXXV

Hi. Just a quickie. My application to join the Kansas History Geeks Facebook Page has been approved.

My goodness, I thought they were going to ask for a police clearance certificate.

That’s great. I wondered if you had just given up.

[PPO41vKG]

Originally Posted by RomulusXXV

Hi. I've been racking my memory from 45-plus years ago with regard to a wooden diving platform atop a metal structure from which I and some neighborhood kids dived/jumped from in - I think but am not certain - Big Hill Lake a few miles outside Cherryvale. The platform was not connected to a pier if I recall, and one had to swim out aways to get to a ladder leading to the actual platform. This is not life-threatening but it's one of those nagging memory things that have been keeping me awake nights.

IS or WAS there such a platform in the above lake mentioned?

the same question with me.

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Originally Posted by RomulusXXV

Hi. I've been racking my memory from 45-plus years ago with regard to a wooden diving platform atop a metal structure from which I and some neighborhood kids dived/jumped from in - I think but am not certain - Big Hill Lake a few miles outside Cherryvale. The platform was not connected to a pier if I recall, and one had to swim out aways to get to a ladder leading to the actual platform. This is not life-threatening but it's one of those nagging memory things that have been keeping me awake nights.

IS or WAS there such a platform in the above lake mentioned?

maybe you are right.

[RomulusXXV]

Originally Posted by PPO41vKG

the same question with me.

Hi. You mean you're wondering the same thing about there being a diving platform in Big Hill Lake?

For me it's a memory (of several) that come and go and sometimes nag at me as to where certain things occurred. It would have been mid-1976 when this particular memory occurred because the song, Silly Love Songs as well as other popular songs of the time, were being blasted from the loudspeakers of a kiosk (?) on the shoreline. My friends and I were among the many people (mainly kids) who were taking advantage of cooling off in the lake on quite a hot day. That diving platform really sticks out in my mind as I was rather nervous of jumping from it into the lake. My several friends and I decided to daisy-chain by holding hands and jumping in after the count of three.

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Bayarea4

Vivian Vance (Ethel Mertz from "I Love Lucy") was born in Cherryvale.

My first thought, too. The silent film star Louise Brooks was as well, and grew up across the street from Viv.
I learned this years ago during a road trip from Kansas City to Dallas (don't ask) when we made a stop at the Cherryvale Historical Museum.
Unfortunately, Viv and Louise have to share space with the 'Bloody Benders', a family of serial killers that lived there in the 1870's. Cherryvale used to host a festival called 'Bender Days' every year that celebrated them. We all have our priorities...

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