{"id":5343,"date":"2023-08-18T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:48:53","slug":"lou-jan-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/lou-jan-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Lou-Jan II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw your website and want to share a photo I have of my dad\u2019s hydroplane from 1950-1955. My dad was Dr. Ralph Beare of Celina, Ohio and our driver was Larry Kruger of Neptune, Ohio. Larry died from a swimming accident in August of 1955 at a race in Petoskey, Michigan. This is a class D hydroplane, <strong>Lou-Jan II<\/strong>, named for my mother, Lucinda, and me, Jan. Larry was a very talented driver and many of the young drivers we knew, went on to make brilliant careers, ie Dean Chenoweth. <br \/>We also had <strong>Lou-Jan I<\/strong> but it was not the big winner that II was. I do not know what happened to it, as we sold it in 1955 after Larry died. <br \/>Jan Jones <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:guitarjan@att.net\" target=\"_blank\">guitarjan@att.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1336\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S-1336x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S-1336x1024.jpg 1336w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S-1536x1177.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S-392x300.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S-600x460.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1336px) 100vw, 1336px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_running.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_running.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_running-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_running-503x300.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_running-600x358.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_news.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_news.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_news-342x300.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/503-S_news-600x527.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw your website and want to share a photo I have of my dad\u2019s hydroplane from 1950-1955. My dad was Dr. Ralph Beare of Celina, Ohio and our driver was Larry Kruger of Neptune, Ohio. Larry died from a swimming accident in August of 1955 at a race in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5349,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/5349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}