My sister Lori Yanke and I spent much of our time playing in and around the brewery.  There is a related story here for some of our adventures.

One of our favorite things to do was play baseball, softball, and kickball in the empty lot where the trucks were parked behind our garage.  We would use the Bottlehouse block walls as our catcher so the ball would not go far on a missed “at bat”.  Lori and I were 14 months apart in age and we were able to pal around more than with our younger sister Kelly Bencheck who was born a half a dozen years later.  One day we were playing baseball and even after Lori’s direction to her to stay away, Kelly approached Lori “at bat”.  Unfortunately, Kelly walked away with an accidental broken nose as the result of being at the wrong end of the bat.  From about the same spot where I would have pitched her the ball and Lori would have been at bat, there is a nice photo looking up at the brewery.

These photos were taken in the mid to late 1970’s by my sister Lori who was experimenting with her camera.  I am so glad she chose to use the brewery as her subject for her practicing.  I’d like to think Lori was reminiscing about all of the times we spent playing there and wanted to capture the views for nostalgic purposes!  She did a great job and I want to thank her for sharing her photos for this website.