(8.1) 634 E. Third Street

This location was not included in the original 1979 article, but I have a little information on it. Apparently William and Amanda Scholler built a home here, more or less across the street from the Scholler blacksmith shop (see Item 10 below). Later the house was used as a business office by Ittel Realty, then by Walker Printing, after which it was demolished. A small restaurant was built on the site, housing, among other enterprises, Downtown Chuck's and now (2011) the Panda restaurant.

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♦ A set of photos showing Walker Printing in the Scholler house, circa 1970.
♦ Demolition of the Scholler house, date unknown.
♦ Downtown Chuck's in 1981.

(9) 626 E. Third Street

"This was the site of the Scholler warehouse for farm machinery and at the alley hung a fire bell that called volunteer firefighters when they were needed. Ittel Realty now operates here."

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♦ Although this 1969 yearbook ad for Ittel Realty gives its address as 623 E. Third, the building matches the 626 E. Third building.

(10) 655 – 651 E. Third Street

"Site of Scholler's Blacksmith Shop, the last one operating in Hobart, and the Ballantyne wagon shop. Attorney Ray Kostbade remodeled the buildings in the 1950s as offices, now occupied by Kneifel and Behnke, Attorneys."

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♦ Several views of the Scholler blacksmith shop.
♦ A then-and-now view of the southwest corner of Third and East Streets that includes the Scholler blacksmith shop and the Ballantyne repair shop.

(58) 238 Main Street

"On the corner Vossberg's Clothing Store with residences upstairs was once Cully Swanson's General Store. John Fiester succeeded Swanson here and also ran a bowling alley and pool parlor in the basement. Then it was a drugstore and proprietors were McComber, Penneman, Mr. and Mrs. Dyche, Badanish and Scholl. Dr. Brink and later Dr. Ader, then Dr. Kraft had offices upstairs. In the rear was a building Leon Calvert used for his tin shop."

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♦ A circa-1907 view of this building from the west side of Lake George.
♦ Evidently Dr. Gordon also had an office upstairs in this building around 1909.
♦ An early-20th-century postcard that takes in the northwest corner of Main and Third.
♦ A circa-1940 view of Main Street that includes this building.
♦ Two posts with side views of the 238 Main Street building.
♦ Around 1898, this building was occupied by the general merchandise establishment of Fiester & Killigrew.
♦ 238 Main Street housed the Fiester Ice Cream Parlor when this circa-1917 image was photographed.
♦ Dyche's Drugstore appears in this undated image at Third and Main Streets; here it is again in 1947, as a parade celebrating Hobart's centennial turns onto Third Street from Main. (Remodeling work on this building in September 2013 brought to light once again the old "Dyche Drug Co." sign on its façade.)
♦ Inside Main Drugs in 1968.
♦ This photo of the Rexall Drugstore is undated, but that car down on Third Street is a 1971 Buick LeSabre.