From Coal Mines to Medicare: Waukee Then and Now
Jamie Thompson kicks off this episode of the Waukee Podcast with What's Up Waukee, featuring live music, fall festivals and even a few Halloween activities beginning to creep onto the calendar. Then Marty Lester joins us to share stories about his mother's childhood in Waukee during the 1940s and 1950s. She graduated in a class of only 21 students and was selected as homecoming queen by a vote of the entire school. Marty also recalls weekend trips to the Adel drive-in, trains stopping in Waukee to deliver grapes to Italian families for winemaking, and his grandfather beginning work in the…
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