1892 MEAT, TOBACCO & BILLIARDS
Plus electricity!
By 1892 the small shops began changing ownership with some of the businesses lasting a very short time and others lasting decades. It’s a fascinating journey through newspaper archives to find these details and for the later years to meld them with verbal accounts.
In 66/58 Main, Adams moved out (He had already been maintaining two locations and moved completely into the other on Furnace Ave) and Bidwell and Co. moved in. in 68/60 Main, Medbery moved out and Morris moved in with billiards and a cigar counter. Shortly after, the building was equipped with electricity along with some state of the art business equipment. Meanwhile Arnold, Crane, and Whitman stayed put.
1892 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Library of Congress showing Baker’s Central Brick Block with it’s recently turned over shops
