Dorchester Times: REMINDER: Joe's Place Plans Street Dance, Open House Tonight

Friday, September 4, 2009

REMINDER: Joe's Place Plans Street Dance, Open House Tonight

Dorchester's street dances are back. And so is Joe's Place, in case you haven't noticed.

This year, start the Labor Day weekend right by celebrating at Joe's Place Bar & Grill on Friday Sept. 4. This special event will feature a beer garden, prizes, giveaways and much more.

Be sure to get there early for the best seats in the house and to catch all the action. Check out the menu and try an item or two from the grill for dinner.

Then from 8 p.m. until midnight, be sure to catch Dorchester's first street dance in more than 15 years as the band "Mother Dudes" plays your favorite tunes. Bring your lawn chairs. Admission is free!

See you at Joe's Place Sept. 4. Come out and support Dorchester's Main Street businesses -- and have a good time doing it! For more details, call Joe's at (402) 946-2171.

14 comments:

cynical richardAugust 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM
dance in my pasture and cow patties afterward .......................... music by the bovine brudes ..........................
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2009 at 4:57 PM
Give it a rest cynical richard.. you are just another pain in the butt person we all have to put up with. Support the town or get out of it.. We don't need you around. i know you don't have a pasture
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM
I think you mean "broods", cynical dick.
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AnonymousAugust 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM
60,000 hits since Dec. 1??! Pretty impressive Dorchester Times and Village Dweller.
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AnonymousAugust 25, 2009 at 7:05 AM
That's on average more than 220 people each day that visit, including me.
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AnonymousAugust 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Even more impressive is that you get 436 page views a day from those 220 visitors the site meter says. That's really something for a small town website in Nebraska.
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AnonymousAugust 26, 2009 at 7:16 AM
I remember Joe's Place years ago when it was operated by Joe Ladman. My grandmother used to call it "the saloon." Old timers would sit out front and watch the cars go by.
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Old No. 64August 26, 2009 at 8:47 AM
My best memories of Joes Place are those summer days as a kid when friends would come in out of the heat to play pool and plug quarters in the juke box and video games. Dwane always had lemonaide on tap and Tombstone pizzas.

Good days.
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AnonymousAugust 26, 2009 at 9:25 AM
My grandfather would drive his 1929 Ford to Joe's Place and have a few "Metz" beers. Oh! The carnage on the Ford fenders...it was decided by my grandmother that motoring to Joe's Place was no longer viable for the good of anything or anyone within the vicinity of the old Ford and grandfather was grounded. God knows how many lives Grandmother saved....
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cjAugust 26, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Couldn't beat pizza and pop at Joe's after the football games!
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AnonymousAugust 27, 2009 at 3:57 PM
No no no the best thing was the mints and tootsie rolls he sold for one cent. We would stock up on those and take them to school.
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AnonymousAugust 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I am super excited about the street dance and I hope everyone will come out and support the new owners of Joes Place. It's gonna be a great time!!! Congrats Rob and Sherri. You guys are great!!!
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AnonymousSeptember 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM
As a parent of a Dorchester elementary student, I am hereby requesting that DORCHESTER SCHOOLS DO NOT AIR THE OBAMA INDOCTRINATION!!!!
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AnonymousSeptember 15, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Dwayne had the greatest steaks I have not been to Dorchester since 2002 GLAD TO SEE JOE"S back

Peg Vossler
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."