Dec. 10, 2019
Newspaper boxes at Cheemas turned introvert. First we saw pay phones vanish from McCleary. Newspaper boxes are next.
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The Death of Newspapers
Dec. 10, 2019
Newspaper boxes at Cheemas turned introvert. First we saw pay phones vanish from McCleary. Newspaper boxes are next.
Ellis Food Market
If you had been standing at this location in the 1960s to 1970s, the view would have been much different.
To begin, where Gordon's Grocery is today was once, ca. 1960, the Ellis Food Market or a name that was close. For some reason the store downsized and in the early 1960s they moved across the street to the present location of Cheema's. Their building, which perhaps had previously been an auto mechanic garage, was a nondescript mostly windowless block of concrete, maybe cinderblock, with a half-quonset hut roof. The store occupied the NW part of the lot while the rest was a parking lot. The entrance was in the SE corner of the building, facing the Post Office.
The present building originally opened as Mike's in the first half of the 1980s.
Smile
That smiling log will be turned into lumber and in turn will create a happy home.
Happy New Year
The bustling live-wire central business district of downtown McCleary on New Year's morning, 2018.
Hmmm, no one seems to be up and around. Gosh, I wonder why?
The end of diesel gas at Cheema
Major Mite's home?
As late as the 1960s there was still a home sitting at the spot where the diesel tanks now reside.
Major Mite lived here at the same time as Cecil "Primo" Boling, one of the tallest persons in the USA. As a result McCleary was the subject of a lot of press at the time wondering what was in our water supply.
Rebar alley
Mike's Phone Booths
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