The response to the "Defunct Gas Stations" post was so completely informative that I would like to ask the same question about Jefferson area grocery stores. Any memories?
The Safeway store was located on S. Chestnut, just North of the Law Enforcement Center. It was twice struck by lightening and rebuilt. The manager for many years was Darwin Moore. Jim Gorman worked in this store. They had a nice meat counter and was a great place to shop.
Consumer Market in the 40's was a complete grocery store. As a child I recall it had a wonderful donut machine near the front of the store that dropped the ingredients into a vat of oil and boiled its way down a path, then the topping of either sugar, glaze or chocolate was applied. It may have only worked on Saturday. In the fifties it was Al Hoy's Super Valu, in the 200 block of S. Wilson Avenue. This was South of the current Elk's Club and vet Scott Sievers ~ beyond the alley. They had a full meat counter run by Max Pett. Neal Wilson purchased the business and ran it for 2-3 years selling the inventory to Jim Schleisman in 1968 at which time it moved to 205 W. McKinley.
United Food Market, operated by Bill Pierce was on W. State Street, just East of the Sierra Theatre. Later it moved across the street on Locust with a large parking lot. It became Dunn's and then G&M [Ron Gorsuch and Art McCollum] building a newer building which is now Dollar General.
Friendly Foods was at 200 W. State, run by Folmer Faaborg.
Square Deal Grocery was run by Orin Goodrich and his son Don Goodrich. It was located at 114 E. State, next to the Horak Law Firm.
Durlam Meat Market and Locker was located at 108 W. State [Now Uptown Cafe]. It rendered meat and had a small line of groceries. It was owned by Stub Durlam, with his brother Gerald working there. Ralph Veenstra rendered the meat.
In about 1968 Jim Schleisman opened Jim's Super Valu at 205 W. McKinley. It was later purchased by his son who ran it a few more years until its demise.
Fareway Stores opened up their first store, somewhat smaller than the typical Fareway at 200 Block of North Chestnut [across from City Hall] It later moved to its larger accommodations at 1207 N. Elm. It is run by Doug Monaghan with the meat counter operated by Al Jacobs. Fareway stores are headquartered in Boone, IA.
While not a grocery store one must remember Saba Bakery at 109 N. Chestnut. They had the best glazed donuts, the chocolate were excellent, along with a full line of "Golden Krust" breads and other wonderful treats. It was owned by Saba & Edna Saba. He was always kind to the kids giving away lots of product from the back door, which his wife didn't always appreciate. Others working there were Leo Smith and Darrell Blackburn. Darrell purchased it later and ran it a few more years on West Lincolnway very close to the Home State ATM machine. All of the dough was made from scratch making them sooo good. Randy Bunkers, "Bunker's Dunkers," runs a donut shop today at 119 N. Chestnut.
The Safeway store was sold in the early 70's to Lynn Holsclaw, a former employee. He operated the store, along with his wife Pat, under the name "Lynn's Supermarket" until about 1976. At that time Wayne Shoesmith, a former employee of Bordenaro's Market, bought it and changed the name to Wayne's Market. That store operated until about 1978. Leroy Cochran ran the meat department for Lynn.
I have just one minor correction for Mr. Braxton. Neal Smith actually operated Neal's Super Valu in the 200 block of South Wilson until about 1972. After that, he sold his inventory and became "Wilson's Trading Post".
If Jim's Super Valu did indeed open as early as 1968 (I would double-check that) that means that there were temporarily two Super Valus in town. That is possible.
I had a couple of friends who worked at Neal's at that time.
Also, try a few of Bunker's doughnuts and give me a quality comparison with Saba's.
Neil Wilson owned Neil's. I worked on the day his son Mike graduated in '72. I took 6 pack bottles of beer and disassembled them. They were REAL difficult to stack. The guy from the meat dept. came by and bought the 2 6 packs I ruined.
Jim bought out Neil around August of '72. Neil gave us raises from the sub-minimum of $1.36/hour up to the minimum wage right before he sold it.
I believe Jim's opened on Hwy. 4 late March of 1973. I took another job a couple of months later and couldn't keep from smiling really big when I gave the manager, Ron Gregg, my notice.
How could I forget Bordenaro's at 108 West Washington? They had such a good variety of grocery items, many things you could not purchase elsewhere. Frank Bordenaro brought his family from Perry. I recall that he opened early and stayed open until at least nine maybe ten at night. Of of his checkers was Sadie who came from Ireland and had quite a brogue. She was a neat lady and caused laughter as she counted back change, giving you "farty-two cents." Frank worked a lot of hours but don't disturb him in the early afternoon as he took a two hour nap. With a nap he felt he could work much longer each day. Later it was run by his son Tom. When I went to elementary school there was a grocery store in the same location called Springers. I think it was run by Elmer Springer, but don't know if it was any relation to Hap Springer. We stopped and got our penny candies if we were rich enough to do so.
Another grocery store, much smaller, that comes to memory was the Elm Street grocery which was connected to a house, just South of Bomgaars, possibly now part of their parking lot. It was built close to the street with the only thing separating it being the sidewalk. It was originally run by the Stogstill family with their house next door. Later run by the Reberry family who eventually closed it.
This is a "defunct gas station" comment, but I believe Deep Rock was at one time referred to as "Pete and Paul's". Does anyone know who those guys were?
Pete Garrity was the "Pete" and I can't remember Paul's last name. About the grocery store where the Uptown Cafe is. It originally was Durlam Lockers, where my uncle used to run a slaughter house, storage lockers and had a small grocery store in the front for what it's worth: there used to be 11 restaurants around the square during the 40's and 50's. The north half of Drugtown was Louis' candy kitchen/restaurant up until the mid 60's
We have some good photos of Louie's in our "Photo Archives" link and in the "Then and Now" link located along the left-hand edge of the main Jefferson Iowa News.com web page, including one of the interior. A lot of other good photos from older eras as well.
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I need some help from r.b. in Jefferson on this one - I'm positive that at one time there was a grocery store where the Uptown Cafe is now.
I also think that there was one about where Olsen's Clothing later stood.
Anyone got more info on this?
The Safeway store was located on S. Chestnut, just North of the Law Enforcement Center. It was twice struck by lightening and rebuilt. The manager for many years was Darwin Moore. Jim Gorman worked in this store. They had a nice meat counter and was a great place to shop.
Consumer Market in the 40's was a complete grocery store. As a child I recall it had a wonderful donut machine near the front of the store that dropped the ingredients into a vat of oil and boiled its way down a path, then the topping of either sugar, glaze or chocolate was applied. It may have only worked on Saturday. In the fifties it was Al Hoy's Super Valu, in the 200 block of S. Wilson Avenue. This was South of the current Elk's Club and vet Scott Sievers ~ beyond the alley. They had a full meat counter run by Max Pett. Neal Wilson purchased the business and ran it for 2-3 years selling the inventory to Jim Schleisman in 1968 at which time it moved to 205 W. McKinley.
United Food Market, operated by Bill Pierce was on W. State Street, just East of the Sierra Theatre. Later it moved across the street on Locust with a large parking lot. It became Dunn's and then G&M [Ron Gorsuch and Art McCollum] building a newer building which is now Dollar General.
Friendly Foods was at 200 W. State, run by Folmer Faaborg.
Square Deal Grocery was run by Orin Goodrich and his son Don Goodrich. It was located at 114 E. State, next to the Horak Law Firm.
Durlam Meat Market and Locker was located at 108 W. State [Now Uptown Cafe]. It rendered meat and had a small line of groceries. It was owned by Stub Durlam, with his brother Gerald working there. Ralph Veenstra rendered the meat.
In about 1968 Jim Schleisman opened Jim's Super Valu at 205 W. McKinley. It was later purchased by his son who ran it a few more years until its demise.
Fareway Stores opened up their first store, somewhat smaller than the typical Fareway at 200 Block of North Chestnut [across from City Hall] It later moved to its larger accommodations at 1207 N. Elm. It is run by Doug Monaghan with the meat counter operated by Al Jacobs. Fareway stores are headquartered in Boone, IA.
While not a grocery store one must remember Saba Bakery at 109 N. Chestnut. They had the best glazed donuts, the chocolate were excellent, along with a full line of "Golden Krust" breads and other wonderful treats. It was owned by Saba & Edna Saba. He was always kind to the kids giving away lots of product from the back door, which his wife didn't always appreciate. Others working there were Leo Smith and Darrell Blackburn. Darrell purchased it later and ran it a few more years on West Lincolnway very close to the Home State ATM machine. All of the dough was made from scratch making them sooo good. Randy Bunkers, "Bunker's Dunkers," runs a donut shop today at 119 N. Chestnut.
Braxton Hicks
Bordenaros Market was along Washington and later became the NAPA store..now just a vacant building.
The Safeway store was sold in the early 70's to Lynn Holsclaw, a former employee. He operated the store, along with his wife Pat, under the name "Lynn's Supermarket" until about 1976. At that time Wayne Shoesmith, a former employee of Bordenaro's Market, bought it and changed the name to Wayne's Market. That store operated until about 1978. Leroy Cochran ran the meat department for Lynn.
I have just one minor correction for Mr. Braxton. Neal Smith actually operated Neal's Super Valu in the 200 block of South Wilson until about 1972. After that, he sold his inventory and became "Wilson's Trading Post".
If Jim's Super Valu did indeed open as early as 1968 (I would double-check that) that means that there were temporarily two Super Valus in town. That is possible.
I had a couple of friends who worked at Neal's at that time.
Also, try a few of Bunker's doughnuts and give me a quality comparison with Saba's.
Neil Wilson owned Neil's. I worked on the day his son Mike graduated in '72. I took 6 pack bottles of beer and disassembled them. They were REAL difficult to stack. The guy from the meat dept. came by and bought the 2 6 packs I ruined.
Jim bought out Neil around August of '72. Neil gave us raises from the sub-minimum of $1.36/hour up to the minimum wage right before he sold it.
I believe Jim's opened on Hwy. 4 late March of 1973. I took another job a couple of months later and couldn't keep from smiling really big when I gave the manager, Ron Gregg, my notice.
How could I forget Bordenaro's at 108 West Washington? They had such a good variety of grocery items, many things you could not purchase elsewhere. Frank Bordenaro brought his family from Perry. I recall that he opened early and stayed open until at least nine maybe ten at night. Of of his checkers was Sadie who came from Ireland and had quite a brogue. She was a neat lady and caused laughter as she counted back change, giving you "farty-two cents." Frank worked a lot of hours but don't disturb him in the early afternoon as he took a two hour nap. With a nap he felt he could work much longer each day. Later it was run by his son Tom. When I went to elementary school there was a grocery store in the same location called Springers. I think it was run by Elmer Springer, but don't know if it was any relation to Hap Springer. We stopped and got our penny candies if we were rich enough to do so.
Another grocery store, much smaller, that comes to memory was the Elm Street grocery which was connected to a house, just South of Bomgaars, possibly now part of their parking lot. It was built close to the street with the only thing separating it being the sidewalk. It was originally run by the Stogstill family with their house next door. Later run by the Reberry family who eventually closed it.
Braxon Hicks
Braxton -
Do you have any more information on the grocery store run by Stogsdill's on North Elm?
What years were they open and why did they close?
Wright's grocery store was on N. Cedar in '49 at the corner of Cedar and Reed and my mom actually worked there.
Was Henderson Park the best spot around to get stoned in or what?
On the main web page next to Orville Bass, please take a second or two and read the story about Jefferson's business district.
One of our readers was kind enough to provide us with this information about the square as it looked over fifty years ago.
A little more research in this area turned up e few more grocery-store facts:
Bordenaro's was previously known as "Springer Market".
Blohm Grocery was located in nearby Farlin.
Elm Street Grocery was located at 607 North Elm.
This is a "defunct gas station" comment, but I believe Deep Rock was at one time referred to as "Pete and Paul's". Does anyone know who those guys were?
Pete Garrity was the "Pete" and I can't remember Paul's last name. About the grocery store where the Uptown Cafe is. It originally was Durlam Lockers, where my uncle used to run a slaughter house, storage lockers and had a small grocery store in the front
for what it's worth: there used to be 11 restaurants around the square during the 40's and 50's. The north half of Drugtown was Louis' candy kitchen/restaurant up until the mid 60's
john -
We have some good photos of Louie's in our "Photo Archives" link and in the "Then and Now" link located along the left-hand edge of the main Jefferson Iowa News.com web page, including one of the interior. A lot of other good photos from older eras as well.
John - I think it may have been Paul McNulty?
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