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Walker area business and service history summary
The excerpt traces owners and changes across Walker Iowa including Kuhn and Linn Co op Tankwagon services, Zieser taverns and grocer store, Bebensee drive in, Hendryx drive in and its shifts, Tietge repair shop, the 1876 creamery evolution to Marinus Andersen and Junior Andersen, Flynn Dairy Products distribution, a coin laundry opened 1972, Walker State Bank under Mannetter management, lumberyard shifts from Gitchell to Great Plains Supply, Murdoch Funeral Homes expansion, Swartz Shoes and Work Clothing becoming Differding Shoe and Clothing Store, and related property remodels and relocations.
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Walker
Marinus Andersen
Junior A. Andersen
Flynn
Carl E. Swartz
Manchester
Iowa
Walker City Hall
Rowley and
Greene Street
Dan Arnold
Swartz