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Nick Pierre and Rose Pierre
Nick Pierre started the excavating
business in 1924 with Lawrence Doetsch who was his partner. Nick moved to Niles
Center in January, 1924 from Fredonia, Wisconsin. In 1940 Nick bought Sneider's
garage and drove trucks during the Depression. He got a job hauling batching
(concrete) from E. A. Meyer up in Lake County all along Waukegan Road, what is
now Edens Expressway. The house where Rose and Nick live used to be where
Crawford Avenue is now. Rose's mother and father moved the house to the present
spot for $200. The garage was built in 1938. There was a pump in the house so
that the water wouldn't have to be carried in from outside. The water came from
a pipe in the ground. The also had a well by the garage of the house.
Rose's father was a farmer. He had
ninety-nine acres of which he paid $1 per each acre. The property went
approximately from Golf to Church and from Kilbourn to Keeler. Uncle Pete Abbink
built a house on the corner of Keeler. Uncle Bernard lived at 4445 Golf Road.
Memorial Park Cemetery was built in
1913 when Rose was seven years old. The farms of people who originally owned the
land were the Weiss Farm and the Jennetten's farm. Barg's gravel pit was nearby
on Skokie Boulevard (and Golf Road) where the Hilton is now.
Rose went to St. Joseph's Church which
was a mission church. The grandparents of her parents helped to build it. Her
great grandparents were the Hohs'. Henrike and Herman helped with the mission.
They were sponsor's of the bell for the ceremony of blessing the bell. Rose went
to school at St. Joseph's. There were thirty to fifty children in the school and
all the grades were separated. The small church was on the west side of Lake
Avenue but a bigger one was built on the east side.
There was an ice cream vendor who came
around in a horse-drawn wagon, ringing a bell. The doctors were Dr. Sintzel and
Dr. Klehm. There were also midwives. The young people usually went on picnics or
talked. Terminal Park used to be property of the Hohs family.
There were many saloons in Niles
Center. The Green Parrot was by Gross Point Road and Kenton and Delphino's was
on Golf and Gross Point Roads diagonally across from Chicken Fritz. There was
Schramm's and two other bars by Sharp Corner.
Pete Hohs had a fire department behind
Duffy's Place which was a tavern. It was on the corner of Kenton and Gross Point
Road across from the Green Parrot. Uncle Johnny Dahm had a store also by Kenton
and Gross Point Road on the side were Venture is now, by Old Orchard Junior
High.
The Abbink House was moved from
Crawford and Golf before 1900 by Rose's father Mathias Dahm to the present
location at 4341 Golf Road in Skokie.
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