(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.

(25) 437 – 439 E. Third Street

"The two-story building next was built by Harry Livingston for the telephone company which used rooms upstairs. Livingston installed his hardware store downstairs. At various times the building has housed a barber shop, Red Cross quarters, restaurants, a craft shop, book store, party hall, and other short-lived ventures. Hobart Sports (437 E. Third St.) occupies the first floor, Walker's Printing in the basements (439 E. Third St., Lower Level) and offices upstairs."

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♦ Ann's Lakeview Ice Cream Parlor, owned by Ann and Ted Menn, operated at 439 E. Third in 1968.
♦ Hobart Sports, at 437 E. Third, in 1973.
♦ In 1988 the building housed Walker & Son Quality Printing and an enterprise called, apparently, The Dugout.

(40) Intersection of Center and Main Streets

"The filling stations, Verplank's and Art Behrend's, were built at Center and Main Streets, Verplank's with living quarter upstairs. Harry Grey operated the Home Service Station ("Main Street at the bridge") and later Frank and Dennis Lindborg (40 Main St.). William Walker continued Verplank's. Verplank's has been remodeled and Trustee Bill J. Rosser had offices here as well as Langbehn. City Judge Cefali and his son (17 Main St.) now have offices in the building."

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♦ Harry Grey outside the Home Service Station in 1960, a 1961 view of the service station building, and a matchbook cover from Harry Grey's tenure; a collection of photographs and newspaper clippings spanning the Lindborg years, 1963 to 1979.
♦ Verplank's service station had become insurance offices at 15 Main by 1971, and had a change of agents by 1972.

(46) Middle of 200 block of Main Street, east side (northerly part)

"A tinsmith and plumbing shop occupied a building at the rear of the next lot. Walker's Print Shop once rented rooms here. The next land on the east side of the 200 block of Main Street was Killigrew and Black property. The Joseph Black brick building was built in 1858. Here he operated a trading post and for 8 years (1861-1869) the Hobart post office. Black's son, Fred, continued the store and old timers recall, as boys, seining minnows and selling them to Black for his bait supply. The business was closed in the 1920s. Later a grocery store was located in this area. The Black building was razed in 1935 and the Hobart Post Office (221 Main St.) was built in 1937 on the Black and Killigrew property. (Leon Killigrew was Joseph Black's grandson.)"

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♦ This circa-1935 view takes in much of the 200 block of Main Street, including where the post office is now located.
♦ The future site of the Hobart post office on September 18, 1935. The photographer stood in the alley behind the post office site and pointed his camera west toward Main Street.
♦ Sometime in 1960 the Hobart Herald printed this article about the removal of the Killigrew house from 205 Main.
♦ This 1969 yearbook ad gives the address for Walker Printing as 205 Main.