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Shafter Mercantile Store A Century of Local Growth
Interior view highlights Shafter Mercantile Department Store once a general store owned by Charles Shomate later run by Herb Midgley and Walker. It evolved into a modern department store with 12 departments, focusing on clothing dry goods and shoes.
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Shafter Mercantile Department Store
North Kern
Charles Shomate
County Recorder
Shomate
Herb Midgley
Walker
Midgley
Midgley and Walker
Stringham’s Drug Store
Shafter
U.S
Herb, Jr
Stringham
Art Hemingson
Hemingson
Shafter Mercantile