This was still Beck's Meat Market at 186 Main Street, apparently sometime in the 1950's, judging from the cars. Notice the sculptured head at the top of the building. A long-horn steer, perhaps?
The steer's head is long gone, but today, the Weathervane restaurant resides in this historic old building.
The door between the meat market and the Clothes Shop next door leads up the stairs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows meeting hall in the Clothes Shop building. In fact, to this day, you can see the Odd Fellows symbol, three intertwined rings, engraved on top of the building, as in the current photo below. The door, if you zoom in on the b&w photo above, says "Rebekah," which was a female order of Odd Fellows. The Odd Fellows became the first national fraternity to include both men and women when it adopted the Rebekah Degree in 1851.
The Ford Falcon in the center was not made until 1960, so the photo is at least 1960.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was hoping somebody who knew cars would comment.
DeleteWhat's in the window in the upper right? If you zoom in it looks like a face.
ReplyDeleteWould like to see front of 222 Main St., "Soft Drink" shop my great uncle had in the early 1900's
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