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From the Richfield Reaper, published March 24, 1927: "How Main Street Looked Forty Years Ago" "Somewhere between thirty-five and forty years ago, when our fellow citizen, W.C.B. Orrock, conducted a store of general merchandise on Main street, he took such pride in this establishment of his that he had a photo made, and this old photograph was through the kindness of Mr. Orrock, submitted to The Reaper "just to look at." We considered it so interesting to the larger part of our readers, old as well as young, that we are showing it herewith in our columns. The older residents will easily recognize it but the younger generation might need a few words of explanation. "The spire domineering the right hand side is the tower of the old tabernacle which was torn down a few years ago and is now old history, just as the buildings from there south and the unpaved Main street as shown in the picture. Next to the old tabernacle, on the other side of the street, on the spot where now the Peterson Bank building stands, is a small building which at that time housed a book and stationery store, and in the rear is the residence of Christian Poulson. Next to it is the Theo. Brandley Furniture store, and south of it is the meat market, which then was conducted by Reuben Noyes. The center of the picture is occupied by W.C.B. Orrock's general merchandise store, and perhaps some of our older readers will recongize in one of the ladies standing in front of it, the present Mrs. Chariton Seegmiller, who at that time was a young Miss Orrock. South of the Orrock store is the barber shop with the tonsorial artist of those days, James Edwards, standing in the door, and in the same building to the south is the Edwards millinery store. "The part of Main street which this picture represents looks different now, and we don't think that our readers are sorry of it." 
Jan. 12, 1939 -- Richfield Reaper |
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