The Community Hall
by LuVerne Hamre
As a youngster growing up in Hampden, the Community Hall was a place of absolute enchantment. On Saturday evenings I remember that feeling of elation as I waited for that magical time, 7:30 p.m., which meant the beginning of the first showing of that week’s movie.
I remember thinking that 7:30 in [...]
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Hampden History: Stories
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Hampden History: Stories
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Jail Break in Hampden
by Don Morentson
Hampden maintained a jail cell during the 1930’s. The cell was made of steel except that the top, which was made of two-by-ten planks bolted to the steel cage. The cell housed many citizens who had consumed a little too much beer at the Kelly Pool Hall and John Neilsen, [...]
Hampden History: Stories
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Old Model T
by the Tosos
I remember when I was about 7-8 yrs old, during the summer time, they had roller skating on Sunday nights and how I wanted to go, but Dad having to do milking and bringing me in and coming to get me wasnt always easy, so I would hope Grandpa Ole and [...]
Hampden History: Stories
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Saturday Night Ritual
by Norma Ruth Skaar
Has anyone written about the Saturday Night ritual of going to “town” for the movie? As usual, the Community Hall was the theater. The movie of the week ran twice, no one minded coming in the middle of “the show”, you just stayed until the place where you came in [...]
Hampden History: Stories
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Glenn Neidlinger’s New Car
by Norma Ruth Skaar
I can remember when Glenn Neidlinger first drove his new Studebaker to Hampden on a Saturday night. What a razzing he took about the car that you couldn’t tell the front from the back etc. I can see Glenn standing behind the car as it was parked in from [...]
Hampden History: Stories
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Town Constable Admonishes Governor
by Don Mortenson
Governor Bill Langer was in Hampden campaigning. He had a stem winding speech going in the Community Hall. As his speech climaxed he pounded his fist on the podium hard enough that the podium seemed to bounce on the floor. John Neilson, who was the town constable and custodian of [...]
