Dub's Place

Buddy Baker:  "I remember Dub Whitfield, well.  He used to deliver milk to our place when I was a kid (1920s and '30s.)  His folks owned a dairy out where Lowe's is now.  They had their own bottling operation.  Dub delivered the bottles with a horse and wagon.  He'd leave new full bottles on the step and pick up the empty ones.

Then people got to where they bought their milk at the grocery store and he opened Dub's Place."

Dub Whitfield peers out of the window to watch the photographer.

Buddy Baker:  "Dub's was where Checkie Tavern is now."

Dub sat for his portrait at about the same time as he hired the photographer to take pictures of his successful business.

Everything must eventually end.

Everything.

Dennis Houx Janice & I bought his house on 310 W. Gay street in Warrensburg. Janice went down to his auction just to buy his sofa they had and Dub knew Granddad Anderson real well and as the story goes, while I was at work for Dr. Price & Dr. Miller, Dub suggested we buy his house. When Janice called me and I went there, Dub set the price and then he ask Janice & I what we could pay per month without it putting us in ant trouble. We told him and he said he would do that and he carried the loan. If we had stayed there it would have taken us around 41-42 years to pay off. There are none like Dub..

Penny Easterwood Wasn't Dubs Place on Holden, north of 50, west side at the bottom of the hill?

Carol Dunham You are correct Penny....my Dad went there as a kid....was able to get a hamburger and play a game of pool for 25 cents!

Steve Pearson He was partners with my Grandfather Raymond Stevens (Steve) anyone remember the man that lived in a shack behind Steve and Dubs? His name was Thistle.

Buddy Baker:  I remember Mr. Stevens.  They had - you know when you come back from Lowes down Holden Street? There's a storage place there now. It was Steve and Dubs.

Dean's Army Surplus

This was a tough one.  I couldn't find Dean's mentioned in any of the business files at the historical society and it wasn't listed in any old phone book.  (They only go back to 1953.)  So if anyone has any memories of this business, please leave a comment.

 This outside view was taken at night.

I found a hint in the upper right hand corner of this negative. Do you see it?

Right at the edge is the Simm's Studio sign.  That means that the store was located at 209 North Holden where Ben Pierce found all of these old negatives.  If my guess is correct, then here is what the building looks like today.

Photographs of Photographs

Most of the pictures from Simmons Studio were taken in the late '40s or early '50s.  Some, though, are on photographic film from that era, but the images themselves are from an older time.  I think they are shots of older pictures that people brought in to be reproduced.  Here are two examples:

Q. How many old-time farmers does it take to cut firewood?

A. Six.  One to tend the saw and five to move the tree back and forth.

That wasn't a joke.

This picture is a mystery to me.  I don't know when it was taken, where, what these men are doing, what those machines are or who anybody is.  The name "Bowers" was written in one margin.

If you know anything about either of these pictures, please let me know.

The Old Abstract Office

I found this picture of the old Abstract Office in the Simmons Studio collection of negatives at the Historical Society.

According to Chad Davis, whose parents owned this building, it once stood on the north side of the courthouse square.  You can see part of the Goodrich sign west of the building.  The American Red Cross entrance is on the east.  

Also there's a sign for the law firm of Pine and ... I can't quite make it out.  Could someone help me here.

Anyway.  Here's the same piece of ground today:

Not a trace.