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 buswinesses
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
ran 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.
Going east of it was Clyde Jones's barber shop. Then the A & P grocery. Then
the telephone Co. In the upstairs and Francis Simpson was the boss. Across
the alley was Dr. Painer's office. North across the street from him was
Overmyer's restaurant in the front room of his home. 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. Going West was
Jo Barnhart's women's dress shop ran by a short Italian looking woman.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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 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. Next was the
rainbow restaurant.
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.
Baily dry cleaner's was on the West end of Franklin street. Zink's
greenhouse flower shop was out by Beeson drive. Simpson's grocery on the
Carl street on the South side of town. 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.
I know there are more places that I should have remembered but this was
written rather quickly.
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