I can add a bit to the question about the stores along the north side of the courthouse square in Leon. THis is a excerpt from a sort of autobio that I started writing for my kids: Starting at the NW corner and going east along the north side of the square was the Central Hotel in the back of which were a series of restaurants (Johnnie Boswell's Steakhouse was one of them in the late forties.) In fact after the busses stopped using Arch's Café they set their stop at The Central. Bill Sanger's barber shop was in the basement of the Central. Dad did dental work for him so I frequently had my hair cut there - a freebie. The US Post Office was in the Central building and when they built the new one you could buy the old boxes with their novel combination locks. Nub Harris' radio shop, Tallman's furniture store, Rippey's grocery store, the creamery and across the street east from the creamery was the county jail. It wasn't very secure. I have a photo taken from my dad's office (over the Strand Theater) at the time of the 1953 centennial celebration. It was intended to be a picture of the parade (and it is) but it also shows the old Central Hotel - and, up the street, Vaughn Smyth's photo shop. I'll send attached copies of that photo to Stacy and Darrell in separate messages. ... jack