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One
"Treasuring
Our Past -
Stockton:The Early Years"
is just the first in a series of videos that will track
the history of Stockton. "The Early Years"
video is primarily from Robert Aubrey’s private collection
and tracks the history of Stockton from 1888 through 1919. It will
incorporate narration provided by, a familiar hometown
voice to Stockton residents, Chris Knauer. Highlighting the narration
are interviews with some of the people that lived the history we
were trying to portray. Taking us back in time in the first video
are Donald Hermann, Norman Vanderheyden and Robert Aubrey.
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Video
Two
“Treasuring
Our Past
– Chicago Great Western: East Stockton”
is the second in a series of videos
that will track the history
of Stockton, it uses photos from Stockton Heritage
League along with photos from Robert Aubrey’s private collection
and tracks the short lived history of East Stockton.
The video takes you from the birth of East Stockton in 1909
thought it’s heyday when thirty trains daily and the entire eastern
division from Chicago to Oelwein, Iowa were controlled from the
dispatch office. Each and every train on the line stopped in East
Stockton to take on crews, water and coal. No job was too big or
too small for the roundhouse that could handle 15 locomotives and
could maintain 65 locomotives and employed 400 people with payroll
of $400,000. With the coming
of the depression and the diesel engines changing railroading forever,
East Stockton was closed in late 1929.
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Video
Three
“Treasuring
Our Past – Stockton: 1920’s and 1930’s”
is the third in a series of
Stockton's history it uses photos from the Stockton Heritage
League and includes s egments on Planes, Trains and Automobiles,
Downtown, Prohibition, CCC Camp and the Depression are all highlights on
the video. This video will take us through the late 1930’s and include
segments on the downtown businesses of the era and building of Highway
5(today’s Highway 20). A segment on the depression including the
CCC camp that was in Stockton as part of President Roosevelt’s “New
Deal” plan to lead the country out of the depression.
Another segment on early aviators of Stockton includes photos
of Clarence and Ralph Hanson and their first plane and airport that
was just north of the current high school.
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