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Wooster’s Market Street memories revive old Wooster shops
Virginia Williams Wingate recalls Wooster area businesses once along Market Street Road now Bayway Drive. She mentions a drug store at Bayway near the plant road, a bakery that made a ship cake, Havis Grocery later a feed and hardware store, Hooks Grocery, Wolverton’s cafeteria, Casey’s near Weaver Street, the Wooster Inn from prohibition days, Johnny Wooster’s filling station, the Yellow Jacket drive in with colorful carhop uniforms, a Roy’s model airplane shop, and Wylie’s icehouse and beauty shop combo.
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Virginia Williams Wingate
Wooster
Market Street Road
Bayway Drive
Bayway
Plant Road
Humble
Park Street
Lionel
Wooster Street
Second
Wolverton's
Wolvertons
Casey's
Weaver Street
Johnny Wooster
Crow Road
Brownwood
Yellow Jacket
Roy
North Street
Wylie's