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Rosemary’s brother Harvey Craig played catcher in semi-pro baseball in Iowa. His fingers were curled up from being broken playing baseball per Bob. Bob and Claude spent a lot of time at Harvey’s ranch in the Mojave desert in southern California. They had to travel cautiously with desert bags and spare tires when driving to […]
Steve’s memories at age 17: The Lutheran High School choir made a trip to perform in Europe. Steve was a soloist, singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, and got a favorable review by a small town West German newspaper. In some churches the acoustics were so clear you could hear echoes of voices seconds after the […]
This is an excerpt from Steve’s journal detailing his move-out from Hillside Drive due to divorce. Saturday was the big move day, I wasn’t sure Eric would be around, but he was. I picked up the U-haul 17′ Ford van and stopped at Kroger to get donuts and trash bags to throw my clothes in. […]
Claude Sr took Marni, Scott, and Steve to Europe in the summer of 1966. Steve recalls (from age 5): Kaeti was age one and stayed behind with Claude Jr and grandmother Irma. We flew on 707’s and DC-8’s. Pan Am I think. It was freezing getting off the plane in London. In London, we stayed […]
10/19/1957 – Dr. Claude Zwart scored his first hole-in-one yesterday after 16 years of golfing. hitting the cup on the 116-yard. No. 3 hole, -on The Triple A course in Forest, Park. Dr. Zwart was in a twosome with Joe Dodson. He used an 8-iron for the shot.
Harvey G. Craig was Rosemary’s brother. “Harvey G. Craig Enterprises Inc., has recently completed the purchase of Franke’s Twin Pools and Picnic park, at Telegraph road and Fine road. The amusement facility was constructed by the Franke interests about eight years ago and has been operated by the family since that time. The thirty-acre area […]
8/16/1940 – Mrs. Robert S. Craig (Minnie Adams Craig) of the Park Plaza Hotel has returned after spending three months as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Rosemary Craig Zwart of Las Vegas, NV.
Claude and Rosemary took a month and a half long trip to Europe in 1935. The RMS Majestic was originally the SS Bismarck, built in Hamburg, Germany in 1914 and given to the allies as part of Word War I reparations. 956 feet long. The RMS Aquitania was built in Scotland in 1914 and “earned […]
Rosemary was quite elegant riding her horse at age 20. Her residence at the time was the Buckingham Hotel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Hotel Baseball player George Sisler “Gorgeous George” was the American League MVP in 1922 and the manager of St. Louis Browns from 1924 to 1926. He liked to hang out at the Buckingham Hotel. Rosemary saw […]