The sun goes down in Eagle Lake

This weekend, I visited Eagle Lake, the place where my parents met in high school.


Eagle Lake City Hall, c. 1926

Eagle Lake

Eagle Lake




This place is right down the road from the house in which my mother grew up, and my grandparents lived.


My paternal grandmother worked in a clothing store which was in one of these buildings, located on McCarty Avenue. My grandparents frequently took my sister, cousins, and me to visit a store when we were little called "Fink's," which was still set up like an old time general store. I seem to remember it had wooden floors. They had great toys - huge bins of them. It was also in one of these buildings on McCarty Ave., but I forget which.

My maternal grandfather worked for Frank Stephens, in Eagle Lake, during the 1930s. The were paid in Frank Stephens dollars.


Heading out of Eagle Lake on U.S. 90.