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  Sign coming in from Lyons to Chase

    This sign was moved down by the other one in front of Kizzars

Chase Community Food Pantry

 Sign coming in from Ellinwood to Chase

    The water tower

Coming into Chase city limits looking north

Coming in from the north looking south

Admit it, how many of you climbed this once?

One angle of the grain shed

Another angle of the grain shed

The Smoker, which was a hang out for many and ran by Virgil & Betty Wood

What The Smoker looks like now  :(

Taken coming in from the South, looking North-East

Taken looking South-West

Looking towards the Cafe and the Co-op

Looking North

This is the Park, taken during one of the June Parades

This is the park taken March 2015. Trees aren't the same since that ice storm.

Community Building southeast corner of the park

USD 401 Office Building

Chase High School Old and Newer Part

The High School with the newer part on the other end

The older part of the High school with the new sign, old sign in photo above.

The new sign.

Newer Part of Chase High School

These pics were taken August 2009--looking towards front entrance

The Office ( we have redone that red background in the trophy case since then)

Looking down the hall outside the gym to down
where the Algebra and typing class rooms were.

 Display case for Paul Coffman

 Looking down the hall going north

 Some of the lockers

The old gym, lots of dances held here.

 Entrance to the old part of the school.

Junior High School

Grade School taken from the North

 

Grade School taken from the South

This used to be the Kindergarten, think it is the library now.

David Peebler made a trip to Great Bend and on the way back cruised through Chase and
went down memory lane. He has shared the following 17 photos he took that day--enjoy.

Hard to believe this was principals office.  
Principals office is now at the end of the hall which Dave believes was an English room
when he was in school in the 50s. It is now elementary building rather than Jr. High.  
It has been moved to High School.  Jr High through 12 in the same building.

Looking down hall by the music room.

This was used as a shower room for athletes in the 50s.

Dave thinks this looks like a mean bunch.

Old gym.

Dave says all of us that played football and BB remember this dressing room in the HS.
 Benches run in a different direction now. 

Thanks Dave for sharing.

Sorry, this was the only picture I could find of this building. I think it  housed the 5th & 6th grades. This is Class of 1964.
UPDATE--Frances got a nice email from Jack Schroeder, Class of 1948 on June 1st. He added some history to this building saying that it also housed the 3rd & 4th grades and he attended all four grades there. Leo Rogers was principal at the time.

Springdale Cemetery out north and little east of town.

The view of Chase coming back from the cemetery going west.

St Mary's Cross

Front of St. Mary's Cemetery

St Mary's Cemetery

St Mary's Cemetery

Oil well by St Mary's Cemetery

Same oil well on the up stroke

View of the Elevators from St Mary's Cemetery drive way.

Anyone remember going out on the highway towards Lyons and
making a turn around here. I think it was called Rollies?
 

St Mary's Catholic School--now home of Chase Agri-Credit Systems, Inc.
Thanks, Frances for getting this.

How many of you remember the Nazarene Church?

Frances Heine took these shots of The Christian Church &  The Catholic Church which are both closed now

Our sincere thanks to Frances & Alvin Heine for taking these following pictures and to you businesses,
for allowing us to post them on the web site to show the world that Chase, Kansas is still alive and kicking!

Mike's Testing & Salvage--Mike Kelso & Sons are following in Grandpa Darrell's footsteps.
They are all Chase Alumni with Mike being Class of 1974

Co-op with Brenda Singleton Nightengale, Class of 1963. Following picture is of the Coop Fuel Station

Kizzar Well Servicing Inc. Doug Kizzar, Class of 1976

Chase Post Office, Past Postmaster-Robin Patterson Jessup, Class of 1976

Chase Police Officer Max Bryant, Class of 2000, I believe he is with the Lyons Police now.

  Police Department 

                                                                                                                                                                                       City Hall

Denise Schmidt Sledd is City Clerk, Class of 1975

Chase Fire Department

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