Love - The Odessa Record "By Your Relative"

Odessa Record subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues his series of articles on the history of the Batum/Lauer area (where his wife, the former Joyce Kiesz, grew up).

Hi, here I am again.

As I mentioned a few months ago, I first became aware of Odessa in the summer of 1955 because of the railroad.

I didn’t know about the L-B-D until the winter of 1956-57.

After attending the New Year’s Eve dance at the Odessa city hall where everyone was dancing to “swing” type music, we all left the dance and ended up somehow out at Leo and Viola Lobe’s farm at Batum where everyone was going to have brea...