Old bottles line the high windows, glass soldiers scanning the busy street.
They share the Baker Block Museum with photographs of the dusty street that once fronted the building, tools of trades that dominated the area and a letter jacket worn by a Baker School football player nearly 50 years ago. We were started here and settled before the south county. The museum, run by the North Okaloosa County Historical Association, shares a row of storefronts at the intersection of state roads 189 and 4 with an antique store and a medical lab. Both pay rent to the museum, its only real source of revenue. A large glass donations jar deep inside the museum stands nearly empty.