This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Baytown memories of Market Minnesota street and era
Wanda Orton recalls a Tri Cities street scene along Market and Minnesota featuring a bowling alley turned gun club, a Weingarten store, Irene's dress shop, nearby Carter Electric and Wiley Ferguson Aluminum, the Stewart Hotel, Brooms Barber Shop, polio deaths in 1952, and local businesses like Bayshore Fire Department and Baytown Utility. The column closes with her sign off and email.
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Oklahoma
Alice Tyree
Jimmy
Texas A&m
Paul Holladay
Minnesota
Aggie
Tri-Cities
Bayshore Red, Reel & Gun Club
Baytown
Weingarten’s
Grenader’s
Irene’s
Goose Creek
Old Baytown
Irene
Carter Electric Co
Wiley Ferguson
Aluminum Manufacturing Co
Stewart
John
Broom
Broom’s
Mr. Weathers
Ball's Insurance Agency
Peoples State Bank
Monroe Pryor’s
Baytown Volunteer