Sadly no. My granddad closed it in 1976 because he was sick and nobody picked up the flame. I must admit that it was a pretty tough time for them. A shopping mall opened in the next big city and the local bus company started taking people to the mall for shopping days. Suddenly it was much cooler to go shop at the mall than it was to do business with local family owned businesses that had been there for decades.
I still remember the old restaurant/sporting goods store... I was just three but I just loved taking the trikes for a ride around the place and sitting on the very tall ball bearing stools to drink a cola
There were newspaper boxes for papers that don't exist anymore (like the Star Weekly).
And he had a Kodak display in the front.
Now, the building looks nothing like it used to. The new owner covered the venerable red brick building with tacky brown aluminum siding and replaced the beautiful French windows with smaller aluminum frames. They converted it into a low brow convenience store. A real massacre for a building that was over 100 years old.
Just thinking about what it's become still makes me want to cry
