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  • Can any readers identify the man in this photo? Each week the History Center of Traverse City provides a photograph from its archives with little known information. You can provide a link to the past by going to www.record-eagle.com/history and filling out a form for the photo you have information about. Readers can also email gleiva@record-eagle.com or call 933-1416. History Center of Traverse City's website is available to the public at www.traversehistory.org. Archive photos also are available at the History Center of Traverse City, 322 Sixth St. Special to the Record-Eagle

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July 9, 2012

Editor's Note on Historical Photo: 07/09/2012

Several readers identified Al Kidder as the man in the History Center of Traverse City archive photo that appeared in the Community section on July 2, right.

Pete Strom of Traverse City said Kidder was a optometrist who had a shop and lab on State Street in Traverse City. He said Kidder was very active in the community in the late ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. Ric Kies said Kidder took care of his glasses as a child. Kies also recalled that his eye doctor’s wife, Hazel Kidder was his teacher in third and fifth grade. Kies said she taught at the old Elmwood School and later Willow Hill Elementary.

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Ruth Moyer of Buckley identified her brother Colon Knight as the man holding a large fish in the History Center archive photo that appeared in the Community section on June 25.

History Center archive photos published in the Community section can be found online at www.record-eagle.com/history.

 

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