A quick trip to the genealogy library and a peek in the 1910 city directory revealed that W. E. Chilcote had an office at 215 W. Main, and was selling life insurance there. He and his wife Minnie and their two children, Donald and Marie, lived at 208 E. Madison. The Sanborn Fire Map confirmed that 215 W. Main was at the same location in 1909 that it is today. (This matters because some of the addresses changed through the years.) Mr. Chicote passed away in 1928. His obituary says that he was a long time businessman in Washington, first with the dry goods store of Mayer and Chilcote, and then as an insurance agent.
Now class, who has a theory about why Mr. Chilcote's sign ended up as scrap wood used to close up a basement window?
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I have no idea, but if you find more stuff, you could call the TV show "If These Walls Could Talk" on HGTV!
On second thought, I think I know why. If he died in 1928, the sign was probably recycled during the depression. duh!
Not bad, from reno, but I'll refer you to an earlier post concerning the history of the building ~
http://brysonblock.blogspot.com/2006/10/horseshoes-to-penneys.html
As business grew I'll bet they got a better, more professional sign made and discarded this one.---or maybe this one was for the back entrance at the alley.
Don't know, but I sure like it!
Hi again 101:
I hope I'm not being insulting by telling you something you've known forever, but I note your http:// reference above, and that Blogger truncated it, so it may not work when copied. Did you know Blogger lets you insert it as a link, like this: Horseshoes to Penneys?
Let me try typing it out - but I have to use GREATERTHAN and LESSTHAN instead of the symbols, or it will think I'm HTMLing and hide them. Here goes:
LESSTHANa href="here you copy the http etc just like you have it then add"GREATERTHANhere you type the title of the post which is the only part that will show followed byLESSTHAN/aGREATERTHAN
Here's a much clearer example at a tutorial site: A HREF
Cheers!
Monte
Oops, sorry, that link isn't a perfect example, but close. Insert your entire link, starting with the http:// right after the first quote. Theirs says "resumepage.html" but you would want "http://brysonblock.blogspot.com/and so on thru the entire address.html"
It's really easy once you do it a few times. Just write out their example and insert your link's address where the resumepage.html is, then insert the title where My Resume is.
Thanks Monte. I don't see the URL as truncated, but can use the tutorial anyway.
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