{"id":152,"date":"2014-01-12T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elylegion.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-01-12T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T21:41:39","slug":"remembering-the-old-ely-legion-hall-1923-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Old Ely Legion Hall 1923-1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current Legion Hall is not the first hall on the site. The original Ely Legion Hall was constructed in 1923 and expanded in 1928. Actually, it was two old school buildings that were moved to the site and fabricated into a hall for the Ely Post.<\/p>\n<p>The building was dismantled in 1954 to make way for the new hall but during its 31 years it was used for just about every community event including stage productions and as the home court for the Ely High School basketball team.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"size-large wp-image-156\" alt=\"Ely Elementary School Students in a stage production in the old Legion Hall, 1950\" src=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stage-800x557.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stage-800x557.jpg 800w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stage-430x300.jpg 430w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/stage.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ely Elementary School Students in a stage production in the old Legion Hall, 1950<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_155\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"size-large wp-image-155\" alt=\"The audience for an elementary stage production in 1950.  Note the basketball hoop.\" src=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oldlegion1-800x611.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oldlegion1-800x611.jpg 800w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oldlegion1-392x300.jpg 392w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oldlegion1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The audience for an elementary stage production in 1950. Note the basketball hoop.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_153\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153\" class=\"size-large wp-image-153\" alt=\"Dismantling the hall in 1954, front view. \" src=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismaltle1-800x354.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismaltle1-800x354.jpg 800w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismaltle1-600x265.jpg 600w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismaltle1-500x221.jpg 500w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismaltle1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dismantling the hall in 1954, front view.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\" wp-image-154 \" alt=\"Dismantling the old hall in 1954, rear view. \" src=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismantle2-800x408.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismantle2-800x408.jpg 800w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismantle2-587x300.jpg 587w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismantle2-500x255.jpg 500w, https:\/\/elylegion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/dismantle2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dismantling the old hall in 1954, rear view. A boxcar is visible on the old railroad tracks to the right.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Legion Hall is not the first hall on the site. The original Ely Legion Hall was constructed in 1923 and expanded in 1928. Actually, it was two old school buildings that were moved to the site and fabricated &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/?p=152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elylegion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}