The main office of the Glenview Park District has been really busy lately getting ready for their upcoming move. The administration team will be moving operations to the old police station while the building at 1930 Prairie gets redone. In one of the boxes, in the back of the dank basement there was a box of dusty old pictures that were about to be tossed. Luckily someone went through it and found some really great shots of the Glenview Park District. There were two that got sent to me with Wagner as the subject.
The first is of one of Pete's old Holstein cows. There is a couple of things that I really like about the picture. To start with, the cow has horns. These days most cattle have their horns removed not long after they are born. And yes, cows can have horns - not just bulls. The reason most farmers remove the horns is because when the cattle are up at the bunk eating they often knock each other in the head and with horns it is just like your mother used to say, "it's all fun and games until someone looses an eye."
The other picture is of the Wagner barn sometime in the late 1970's or early 80's. The pile of bricks on the right side of the picture is part of an old garage that the Wagner's had on the property.
If anyone out there has pictures of Wagner Farm and would like to share them we have a historic archieve that chronicles the history of the farm and the Wagners.
