Some Coin Grain Corp. photos

87º - 38% humidity Clarinda, IA 4:41 pm Friday as I start this.  Not too bad a day.
Been spending all day scanning old (1961 to 1977) slides and now found a whole bunch of negatives, which are much harder to scan -- and no dates on them.

The "Masked Lawn Mower Guy" mowed the lawn yesterday.

Nice flowers at Clay & Judy's place today

Stopped at the O'Reilly Lot to get some sweet corn & cucumbers before noon

Phyllis & daughter Michelle dressed "old"

Some of the old slides I found -- these are when we participated in a parade at Coin, sometime in the early 70's I would guess.  Think it was Coin's Centennial or something.

 From 1974 to 1994 Phyllis & I ran the grain elevator in Coin, IA.  Back at that time I had taken nearly all slides and they got put away and I just discovered them.  These probably won't mean much to anyone but me.  Only the Quonset building in the upper center of this picture is still standing in 2017.  All the others were razed in the 1990's after we sold the elevator.

This Quonset building is one of the few buildings still standing in 2017

Guessing these photos were taken in the late 1970's or early 1980's

These pictures with the rail cars would be in the mid to
late 1970's as the rail was taken out in late 1970's.  The large
grain bin in this photo is the only bin standing in 2017.-

The two American batch corn dryers as they were when
we first bought the elevator in 1974

Showing the "new Deluxe continuous-flow dryer I put in in the late 1970's in
the center of this photo.  Today, in 2017, only the large bin on the left
and the Quonset building on the right are remaining.  Everything
else has been torn down and removed.

Bob Christianson from Shenandoah or Garth VanFossan from Braddyville
put in the complicated augers to get the corn from the wet bins to the leg that fed
the continuous flow dryer and other augers coming from dry bins to load
out to the semi-trucks.

Corn Dryer in operation on a cool day and vapor is coming off it.

Looking down on the unload pit and leg I had installed

The "tall" leg that fed the wet bins
as well as the bins from the dryer

Been 23 years since we sold and quit the elevator business - 43 years since we started working there - so these photos brought back memories.  Since so much of this was destroyed after we sold the
facility, only these photos remain.


GROANER’S CORNER:(( A pregnant woman gets into a car accident and falls into a deep coma.
Asleep for nearly six months, she wakes up and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.  The doctor replies, "Ma'am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them."  The woman thinks to herself, "Oh no, not my brother -- he's an idiot!" Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, "Well, what's the girl's name?"  "Denise," the doctor says.  The new mother thinks, "Wow, that's not a bad name! Guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise!" Then she asks the doctor, "What's the boy's name?"  The doctor replies, DeNephew.

Later, Lynn