Happy new year in Superior

My parents always spent New Year’s Eve with the couple’s club that got together to play bridge once a month. They scheduled the January session for New Year’s Eve. This left me home by myself, although when I was younger Aunt Lena came to stay with me during the evening.

We would listen to the radio. At midnight, Guy Lombardo and his orchestra in New York City would play “Auld Lang Sine” and a radio reporter would describe the lowering of the ball at Times Square.

Back then there were no fireworks set off as I recall, but some left over from the 4th of July may have been shot off. In today’s Lincoln, fireworks can be used for New Years and we get quite a lot of them.

I have a vague memory of the Superior fire siren going off at midnight – just one blast so as not to be confused as the three blasts to summon the Superior Volunteer Fire Department. Maybe some other older Superior residents can write in and confirm this happening.

All in all, it was a fairly quiet evening for a young man growing up in Superior until I got older and there were parties of people of my own age to attend. Those parties were memorable, but I won’t go into detail and reveal names. One memorable one took place at Mason Ely’s farm one year.