This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson, Penn, Skeeles, Harris, Blake, Truby, Mann, Turk Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WEB.2ACI/503 Message Board Post: At the corner of 2nd (now Main) Street and Jackson Street, directly behind the Hotel Bentley, was a two-story structure (likely built of brick & mortar). The ground floor housed a saloon called the Texas Bar and a liquor store called Delta Liquors. This establishment was operated in 1943 by R. O. Skeeles, Frank L. Truby & his wife, Amelia Nellie Mann Truby, and Vines B. Harris & his wife, Mary Turk Harris. In April of 1943 they sold their interest to William L. Johnson & his wife, Louise Penn Johnson, who sold out in December of 1944 to a man named, Shirley R. Blake, who operated it through at least 1947. By 1949 the building was vacant and by 1951 this address at 801 2nd Street housed the Alexandria Trade School. Back in 1938 this location (do not think the building was erected until after that year) was operated by the Alexandria Auto Company. Apparently was the bar was built to accomodate the mass of soldiers coming to the area's many Army Camps for training. It is likely! that the original bar was partitioned-off into the two businesses, a small bar in the front and the liquor store in the back. Would like stories from persons remembering this establishment or its owners and would love to receive photos of the exterior taken nearby or afar and especially the interior. Some of the furnishings purchased with the business were a circular bar with 60 bar stools & 50 tables with 150 chairs. This amount of furniture would have filled the entire 6,000 square feet in its heyday, but likely was downsized as business fell off with the return of troops to their homes.