So sorry the color didn't come through..........phd
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From: memawphd(a)comcast.net
Well, this certain took me on a trip down memory lane. Thanks a
million.....I
loved it.....who wrote it? I was born and raised in Winchester [1931-1949] and
gently and lovingly I'm questioning the dating of this piece...........I've
taken the liberty of adding a few notes in red.......based on my remembrance of
the late 40's.....phd
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From: "M J B"
> Got the following e-mail and thought you might enjoy it--I think it must be
> from the 1940's or 1050's.
>
> Mary Jo
>
> Winchester, Indiana businesses
>
> Do you remember any of these places?
> Merchants while I was growing up in Winchester
>
> On the East side of the downtown square there was Homer Waltz drug store.
> Duvall men's clothing store later sold to Perkins. Leonard's drug store. I
> was a soda jerk there, Buster Brown shoe store. Helms meat market. Above
> this store was Dr. Robinson's office. Webb's jewelry store. Lyric theater
> run by Bernie Cline and the Davis popcorn stand in front. A flower shop I
> don't remember the name of it. The nice sized 5 & 10 store. Engle's
music
> store. Across the street was the Davis building with Busic's news stand. Jo
Barnhart's dress shop was on the corner later.....
> Going east of it was Clyde Jones's barber shop. Then the A & P grocery. Ludy
Candy Store came first. An entrance into the interior of the building went to
offices such as Raymond Tanner's off ice later. After the A & P there was an
appliance store. Then
> the telephone Co. In the upstairs and Francis Simpson was the boss. Across
> the alley was Dr. Painer's [that's Painter] office. North across the street
from him was
> Overmyer's restaurant in the front room of his home. [I really don't
remember
this at all] Back towards Main
> street was Dr. Maronies office in the front room of his house. He was a
> family doctor.
> On the South side of the square was Wards insurance office. Baumgartner's
Jewelry came right in here. Going West was
> Jo Barnhart's women's dress shop run by a short Italian looking woman. [She
had a baby for about 5 years in a row in the late 40's and she brought them to
the pool for swimming lessons when they were less than a year
old..........amazing how they could learn to swim at that age......]
> Rogers grocery that later caught fire. Anderson's hardware, owned by Joan
> Anderson's dad. Boston store. J C Penney's. Across the street was the hotel
> with Anne Nance's restaurant in the back. The Kroger grocery. The fire
> department with Mills as the chief. Bobby Mills dad. Across the alley was an
> old type barn building that bought and sold furs.
> Back up on the square on Meridian street was the Dixie fruit stand. A Gamble
> hardware store. Puckets meat market. Maronies women's hat and apparel shop.
[just hats, I think]
> Bob's sporting goods store. And then the bank. Across the street was the By
> Lo furniture store. The owner eventually shot and killed his wife while in
> Florida.
> The Winchester news paper at the end by the alley. Across the alley
> was the youth center operated by Howard White. Across the street was and
> still is the post office.
> Back up on the square on the North side was a bank. Winchester hardware with
> a bowling alley and the Masonic lodge upstairs which both later burned
> including the hardware store. I don't remember any bowling alley except on
North Main. Above the hardware store were apartments in the late 40's. Next
came a dress shop and then Best Grocery. Family owned and operated by the Best
grocery.
> During WW2 their son John was killed in the service. The first of a couple
> other boys losing their lives. Another drug store was right in here somewhere.
A book store where we all got our school
> books and supplies. Then another bank on the corner. Beside the bank on the
> corner was the Wilson popcorn stand his wife was the nurse for Dr. Robinson.
> Cox Photo studio, Wanda's dads store. A leather goods and leather tanning
> shop. Across the alley was a small Shell filling station managed by Fred
> James. Bill & John James's dad. Carpenter's automotive parts store. He
later
> married Chet Overmeyers widow. Was the restaurant [Do Drop Inn or something
crazy like that] next in the 40's? The Cozy theater. Then Hinshaw's grocery on
> the corner. Across the street on the same side of the street was Fouse taxi
> stand later sold to Roy Durban. On down by the railroad was the Goodrich
> grain elevators. Across the train tracks was Overmyer.s Mold [that's mould]
shop.
> Back towards the square across the street was Paul Able Buick later sold
> to a Union City dealer named Gene something. The newer bowling alley that
> replaced the one that burned, operated by Goldie. Next door was another
> furniture store. Across the alley was a beer joint. Then Walter Meyer's home
> made ice cream store, Anne Nance's first restaurant later sold and turned
> into another beer joint. Reed's drug store on the corner. Around the corner
> heading East was a Phillips 66 gas station operated by Skip Overmeyer's dad
> Lyle and Skip's uncle Paul Jones. Next was Spradling Pure Oil station. Billy
> Bob's dad and uncle. With the two Dr. Brenners office on the corner. Across
> the street South was Dr. Davis's dentist office in the front room of his
> house. He was John's dad. Back up towards the square was Roy Beachler's
> bicycle shop. He didn't sell bicycles, he just repaired them. On the east side
of the alley was another filling station.....I thought that was Billy Bob's
dad's. Next was the
> Rainbow Restaurant. across the alley west and then the back door to Waltz's
Drug where you went to get prescriptions filled.
> The Chevrolet dealer was across the alley next to the jail on South Main
> street. The Ford dealer was owned and operated by Gully and sons. The
> Pontiac dealers was on the South end of Main street operated by Gene Lawson.
> Brouse Brothers Plymouth De Soto dealership on the East end of Washington
> street. A Nash/ Crosley dealer on the North end of Main street across the
> street from Overmyers foundry. Sinclair filling station on the west end of
> Washington street operated by Al Comer. Brouse Brother's Shell on the East
> end of Washington street. Sunoco filling station across from Brouse
> Brother's. There were a couple of pumps at a little neighborhood grocery at
the east end of South Street on the corner of S. Oak right by the hospital.
> Baily dry cleaner's was on the West end of Franklin street. Zink's
[that's
Zicht's]
> greenhouse flower shop was out by Beeson drive. Simpson's grocery on the
> Carl street on the South side of town at the north end of Richmond Street.
Rector's grocery just South of the
> high school. Mayora McCoys grocery north end just beyond the viaduct .
> McCamish's glove factory (isn't that the burial slipper factory?)which is
> now Wick's pie factory. The glove factory was on North East Street in the
20's.
> I know there are more places that I should have remembered but this was
> written rather quickly.
Thanks for the memories.............phd
>
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