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1958 Slot Machine Raid, Williamson County, Illinois

Posted on by January 20, 2014
Slot Machine Raid ca 1953 shown are Jack Stephens and Yabe Edwards

Slot Machine Raid ca 1953 shown are Jack Stephens and Yabe Edwards

A raid into unspecified establishments in the city around 1958 yielded this large pile of scrap when the Marion Police Department was done with it. Shown are OfficerJack Stephens and Chief of Police Charles Edwards, both Marion residents.

(Photo courtesy of Williamson County Historical Society)

City Resevoir 1953

Posted on by December 11, 2012

Marion City Resevoir ca 1953

This picture was taken by Carl Sorgen for publication in the Marion Daily Republican. If displays the old water tower, water treatment plant and city resevoir.

(Photo courtesy of the Williamson County Historical Society)