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 -------------- Original message -------------- From: "M J B" <[email protected]> > 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM > _mini_2G_0507 > > ******************************** > Please Visit The Randolph County INGenWeb Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~inrandol/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message