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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
RUD's Waverly Beach
April 13, 1946 Billboard Magazine
Various matchbooks items for sale on eBay. It's cultural memorabilia from Waverly Beach in the 1930s and 40s. An online search for Rudolph "Rud" Fischer netted the above article.
Rudolph "Rud" Fischer was my paternal grandfather's brother. My paternal grandfather was Theodore A. Fischer. I don't know alot about Rud. I vaguely recall meeting him once when I was very young. I understand he went on to work as an aircraft painter, possibly on the U.S. West Coast, possibly California. When I met him, I believe he had traveled back from the West Coast to visit his brother and perhaps other family in the area. Ida Diem was their Aunt, and a nurse in the area. They had a sister, Martha, who may have passed on by this time. These Fischer boys were born in the Laona, WI area and moved south later. Dan Fischer
Dancing sounds fun! Wish I lived then for that! Why does it say Appleton? Was that area Appleton first?
ReplyDeleteRudolph "Rud" Fischer was my paternal grandfather's brother. My paternal grandfather was Theodore A. Fischer.
ReplyDeleteI don't know alot about Rud. I vaguely recall meeting him once when I was very young. I understand he went on to work as an aircraft painter, possibly on the U.S. West Coast, possibly California. When I met him, I believe he had traveled back from the West Coast to visit his brother and perhaps other family in the area. Ida Diem was their Aunt, and a nurse in the area. They had a sister, Martha, who may have passed on by this time.
These Fischer boys were born in the Laona, WI area and moved south later.
Dan Fischer
I was wrong, Rud was born in Europe. My grandfather was born in Laona.
ReplyDeleteRud was 4-5 yrs old when the family came to America.