By Mary Lou on Monday, April 4, 2005 - 02:49 pm:
I think the young trombone player on the left..(directly under the horse's head) is my dad, Fredrick A.Studer. There was a group of young men who practiced in my grandmother Studer's barn on Hecla Street, Lake Linden...and they called themselves the "Studer's Shanty Band". He often spoke of playing with the C & H band.....he went off to war in 1917 and played with the Army Band in France with General Pershing...After the war he performed with and often directed the Kenosha, Wisconsin "Police Band". Every Fourth of July when we came "back home" for a visit he would get a group to march in the Lake Linden parade. When he retired to Lake Linden he had "Studer's German Band" for many years and was hired by the Bosch Beer Co. He loved to play that Trombone and was so good....what a great dad!!!! My mother played the piano so there was great music in our house almost every day......lucky me...
By Geri Ylitalo-Zieker on Monday, April 4, 2005 - 05:23 pm:
I wonder if this was one of the early Bosch beer gatherings. the brewery did a lot of this type of stuff with entertainment! Wish my father was around as he remembered dates & everything going way back. Often scolded me for not remembering stuff. (:
Loved seeing the photo. Thanks, Mike