Exterior and interior views of the Eleven Gold Star Post No. 1248 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars club house at 2200 Polk Street in Two Rivers. This structure was originally located on East Street where it served as the U.S. Coast Guard station. After a new station was completed in June 1941, the U.S. government donated the old building to the local VFW, which had outgrown their first club house on Lake Street. In February 1942 the old Coast Guard station was moved along the Lake Michigan shoreline and through Neshota Park to its new location on Polk Street, near the entrance to Walsh Field. At one point, when the building was moved across private property, a protesting homeowner briefly blocked its progress with his car and the police were called, but tempers cooled and the move was allowed to continue. After the building was remodeled on its new site, the VFW moved in during August 1943. The facility included a lounge, office, kitchen, and "tavern arrangements in the basement." By 1945 VFW membership in Two Rivers included 130 world War I veterans and more than 600 "associate members" who could patronize the club's fish and chicken lunches. Top left: East side of VFW Eleven Gold Star Post No. 1248 club house on northwest corner of Polk and 22nd Streets, with U.S. flag flying from flag pole adjacent to the building. Top right: Lounge area in front of fireplace. Bottom: Interior view with wall plaque Honor Roll of veterans fighting in World War II. These and other images of the new VFW club house were published on the front page of the February 1945 issue of the "Sojourner," a monthly newsletter that was published in Two Rivers during World War II by a volunteer group called the "Civic Understudies." The VFW post provided funding to support the publication of the "Sojourner."