Blair’s Downtown – Block 38

Lot 22

• Fitch’s Tavern (clarification needed)
• Next to the tavern there were one or two old houses on lots 20 and 21.
• 1953 – Clothing Store — Nelson Brothers Gus Nelson
• Bowling alley was west of Nelson’s (clarification needed)
• Mid 1980s – Micro Smart Printing

Lots 23-24

• In 1930s it was Thornberg Grocery.
• Soll Brothers grocery was there in the 1950s and 1960s in old an wooden building.
• 1964-65 Hobby Hut (more information needed)
• Late 1960s Medicine Chest (more information needed)
• The Danish American Archive and Library occupied the remodeled builing in 2011.

Lots 25

• 1909 Creamery
• County Extension Office
• Ahead of the Curve

Lot 26-27

• Hancock Allis Chalmers farm machinery, managed by Herb Nelson (also lot 25?) later became International Harvester.
• Bob Autenrieth and Jerry Wilson bought the business in 1976.
• Jensen’s Used Furniture
• Ortmeier’s Appliances
• Radio Shack
• US Cellular
• ACME Fabric and Quilt Company

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