Deep storage

Although this blog is mainly about this library, it is also a kind of archive of ACS and Afton things I don't want to forget or (virtually) misplace. And so I am posting this wonderful recollection of Afton businesses of 1940 as recalled by Joyce Burnett in 2010. Many thanks to June & Gloria for sharing it.

Afton / 1940

South Main Street

Crowley Creamery
Dairymans’ league
Master Oil Company: Lawrence Humiston, George Sutton
Gas station: Andrew King
Tiffany’s Garage
Fred Lewis Construction
Mudge Feed Mill
Cider Mill
Briggs Lumber Co.(coal)
Atherton Tourist / Telephone Office
Afton Enterprise: newspaper

Main Street (south side)

Handy’s Hat Shop
Barber Shop: Clint Gran
Grand Union Grocery Store: Charles Folts, manager
Rose Tea Parlor
Village Hall: Fire Co. (ground Floor), Library, Girl Scouts ( 2nd floor)
Pages Meat Market
Clarence Eldreds: mens clothing
Bert Hyde Drug Store
Post Office
Jenks & Swart Department Store
Farnsworth Sweet Shop
Herkimer’s Red & White Grocery Store
Glen Morgan Dodge & Plymouth Garage
Bank
Midway Restaurant: Fred Stearns
Tabor’s Dress Shop (funeral home also furniture store)
Bill Gregs Tourist Home (Gregs Pool Hall in back)
Afton Diner: Fred Talbert
Harry Horton Hardware Store
GL7 Feed Store
Doolittle Gas Station

Main Street (north side)

Sam Perry’s Gas Station
Cook’s Barber Shop
Victory Store: Elwin Bristol, manager
Bruce Keater Grocery Store
Morgan Brothers Hardware
Afton Inn
Town Clerk’s Office
Eldreds Tourist Home
Nick’s Shoe Repair
Blacksmith Shop

Schoolcraft Lumber (Caswell St.)
Victor Gregory Grocery Store (East side)

Darwin Craig: lawyer
William Crull, M.D.: Afton Hospital
Hienz Cohn, M.D.
Lloyd Johnson, dentist
Archie Gunn: RR Station Master & telegraph operator

Farmers in the Village of Afton

Dan Grant
George Raab
Gallup Holmes
Lewis Fisher
Swackhammer’s
B(ud) & Mary Forsyth
Fred Holdrege
Ed Cornell

Drackler’s Stable
Bob Quenay: trapper