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   Citation: 173.968.3-5 (Full image size: 81Kb)

The interior of Judisch Brothers Drug Store, located on the north side of Main Street just west of the Tilden Store in downtown Ames. Farwell Brown recalls that when he was a boy in the second and third decades of the twentieth century, textbooks for the Ames public schools were distributed through this drug store. (He does not know why this arrangement existed.) George Judisch is the tall man on the right. The other man in this photograph has not been identified, but he was, no doubt, a store employee. George Judisch and his brother, A. L. Judisch, opened the store in 1894 when George was 23 years old. The store operated until 1955. George Judisch died on February 2, 1959 at the age of 88. (See also: 173.969.1)

   Citation: 77.397.2 (Full image size: 101Kb)

The Sheldon-Munn Hotel, taken around 1938. The corner portion of the building was originally occupied by the Story County Bank. After Parley Sheldon's death in 1932, that bank merged with the Union National Bank to become the Union Story Trust & Savings Bank and occupied the Union National Bank building at the corner of Douglas Avenue and Main. The hotel corner at Main Street and Kellog is, at the time of this photo, occupied by Brooker Drugs. Also visible on the Kellog Avenue side is The Grid, a restaurant that operated from 1938-1959 and occupied part of the hotel's former dining facility. The canopy over the front entrance is different than the one attached to the hotel when it opened in 1914. At this time the hotel was about to undergo several renovations and changes in its use. (See also: 181.1023.5)

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