Dear Lucy and fellow listers, We are interested in Marinette saloons and boarding houses, since Tom's great-grandparents had one in the 1880's, probably also 1890's. Later it was owned by a son-in-law, Alphonse O. HEBERT. Starting with the 1885 Marinette City Directory, we found Israel BOYER listed as proprietor of the Central House, southeast corner of John Street and Vine Street. There were 20 other hotels listed in Marinette that year, and 29 hotels listed in Menominee that same year. Several other BOYERs resided at the Central House, but worked elsewhere: George, Israel Jr., Jeddie. The one that currently interests us is Maguire/Maquise BOYER, who though he resided at the Central House, worked as a bartender at A. O. HEBERT. Although we know this Alphonse O. HEBERT later married one of Israel Sr's daughters, Alvina/Vinna BOYER, (her 1st husband was Alfred DULUDE/DELUDE and her 3rd husband was Frank PELKEY), we never looked up his name when we were going thru the city directories. When you wrote about a saloon on Main Street, we realized we had never even looked up Alphonse in any of the city directories... Maybe his saloon was on Main Street--we really don't know! So, does any of this coincide with your research? We know there have to be other descendants around somewhere. Thanks for the reminder: we have a lot more research to do! We'd be happy to exchange info. Also, I decided to post a query about Marinette's city directories, which may stir up some help. Good luck, Tom and Barb Glassel