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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1965
Page
1
A Monticello resident known as an oldtimer points to the left background building as the former cannery. The photo credit goes to Dayton Yousse of Monticello.
A western view from Energy Corner shows dirt streets and wooden sidewalks at the East end of First Street. The center building with a tower is the Old Opera House, with photo courtesy credited to A. G. Stamtaszh, Monticello.
A reminiscence recounts price shifts in oak and hickory wood, houses and businesses that once lined Monticello streets, the Ringling Brothers circus stops via Peru and Baraboo, and a fading array of early doctors, shops, and frame buildings now replaced by newer structures. The author notes former homes of Lambert, Shelley, Rueger, and the Cummins building, plus the evolution of the blacksmith shop area into modern businesses.
The Laundermat occupies a site once home to Kemmerer Bottling Works, continuing a long local industrial lineage. Marmis family and Dave Solomon once fronted there before Dubuque residents. The adjacent Thomas Bakery area was Altman Tavern, later Newton Thomas's bakery. Monticello Standard Parts area housed poultry sales by Lena Rohn, then a fire station and garage, now an auto parts shop of Jim Reding and Gus Norlin. Hargrave Cleaners grew from Peter Meyer’s era, later rebuilt after a fire. Dr Kaiser, Coward's Jewelry and Sam Schuetz once stood on a bare lot now hosting offices, with Bob Loomis’s cafe short-lived before becoming an office building. The Schneider building beside hosts Bob’s.
From 1875 Iowa Atlas, Montecello lists six dry goods stores eight groceries four drug stores four boot and shoe shops two clothing stores two book stores two butter egg and poultry dealers three hardware stores eight grain cattle and produce dealers two toy and fancy stores five millinery stores three agricultural establishments seven blacksmith shops four wagon shops two meat markets two furniture stores three jeweler shops one foundry and machine shop five shoe makers shops two gun and pistol shops two merchant tailors four paint shops two flouring mills two lumber yards one glove and mitten factory one well auger factory one wood-sawing machine factory four sewing machine offices three harness shops one brick yard six stone masons two hotels seven saloons two livery stables one trotting park and fair grounds two elevators three churches four church organizations one graded and high school one Masonic lodge one Chapter one Commandery one Odd Fellows lodge two law offices four notary publics one internal revenue office six physicians one dentist two express offices one bank two printing offices two photograph galleries two railroads two ice houses one laundry two barber shops two dairy milk factories one library and reading room one literary club and a developing water power on Kitty Creek.
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