The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-06-01

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cream. It is also under ne,
s management, Mr.. RAIDER havin
y sold out and returned to Wall
: Walla.
Over across the street, Duroche
still runs the furniture store bu
has leased the hotel business. TIL
Commercial Inn has also change
hands couple of times and a ney
restaurant building has been bull
OF concrete blocks next door t
1t. Then the rest of the block III
to the bank is scarcely change,
at all. In the bank Ed Tweet
still up. in the front chair, blu
Jay Bliss has whole flock O
new girls all over the place both
ering him.
Kit Clifford has the corner o
the theatre building with a rea
estate office and is he happy
The theatre has a new manage.
and the other little store in tn,
same building where Hall ant
Rokkan had their beer parlor i.
opening today as sandwich shor
with Chuck Ennis operating it
The Beste Grocery, with the
SafeWay store next to it are little
changed, and Herm Schmidt opens
the Club when he has beer tc
sell. with Sam Samphere still be.
hind the counter. Mcdonald has
moved back into his old stand
with Larry Oliver and his shears
and Emil Behrman with his store,
Bill Brace with the Transfer bust
ness in the same old way. Joe
Martin has sold the barber shop
to Earle Armstrong, with Kenne-
Wlck's first lady barber at the
front chair.
McDonald's new building is be-
ing run as grocery by the De-
pendable of Yakima, while the
Penney store next door has an
entire new set of fixtures thru
out the store. Lou Langworthy is
manager, with Al CLANCY, the
former manager, now sporting a
lot Of gold braid in the Navy.
Bob Brown has sold his interest
IN the telephone company and
Burns is the manager, with Mark
just recently taken into tine army.
Ed Neuman is operating the
corner store, staying open each
night until nine. Bill Altrogge
is working there, with Mr.. Miller
OF course, still on the Job. John
is down in Florida, with the young
brother, at the same field where
brother Major Bernie is stationed.
The store where Ed used to be is
now occupied by clothing store
operated by Urban Koelker.
Frank Visger's store has some
new clerks and Mona Monroe
Dress shop where Glen Utes used |
to be is continually worrying about
getting enough clerks. Jack Turn
er is still at the Pastime, but the
Ladies shop where Mrs. Miller
had her Lady Lure shop is now
being used as ration board Of
ice. The rest of the block from
he PP&L office to Vibber's is I
practically the same as ever, with
he beauty shop, Fyfe's Insurance
,ffice, the print shop, bakery, P.O.,
"ashburn's and the drug store as
before. Over across the street.
ne Bateman boys are dolling UP
ne kenneWick Hotel and plan
ome real improvements there.
Jew equipment is arriving and
hey will soon open an inn on
he corner and the dining room
n the other side of the lobby.
We have two new doctors, DR..
Ute, where DR.. Spaulding used
. be and DR.. Care, where DR..
'tevens used to be. DIR. Stone is
TILL IN his old location there.
Down on the highway there has
cen the most noticeable change.
everal new buildings, dozens of
abins and trailers clutter the
lghWay on both sides of the
avement. A couple of garages.
,ores, barber shop, etc., are down
lere, with the White Kitchen.
he Coffee Cup, the Richland
Tub mixed in between. The
aScO growers are building an
ther warehouse across the road
ON the Potlatch Lumber Co., and
ere is a cement pipe and block
lctory across from the Walla
ala Cannery on Fruit Row.
Inc night club, which was to
ave been started at the Lape
.sidence just west of town has
own up and the promise of a
tilted night spot has faded.
There have been a flock of
wv houses built, however, and
ey are pretty well occupied. The
ggest bunch is of course, the 200
hit on the field just south of the
lrk. Over across the road, on
ashington street, Roger Records
IS filled in nearly every vacant
with a house, and up on Mob
III there are some sixty more
&c new houses. In the Olmsted
dition Records has filled nearly
cry vacant lot on the north
lie of the street with houses, with
pretty little group of sixty-odd
U-shaped street where the
ape vineyard used to be, kitty
rner from the Bremmer service
alton on the edge of town.
Fellers, this is just rambling
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