I moved to Frankfort in 1951 shortly after I graduated from Thorntown. I lived on N. Main St. and lived there until I got married. I remember a lot of the little Mom & Pop grocery stores and am hoping someone out there has some pictures to share with Steve. Incidentally he is doing a fabulous job on this venture. What I wanted to share is I remember Kite's grocery store on N. Jackson St. where the old Kwik Mart was. My husband, Jim, worked there when he was in school as a sacker, stock boy and whatever else needed to be done. Also there was a small grocery on N. Main St. just a block south from where I lived. The name of that grocery was Scallon's. Their daughter married Jim Jones and they live on the corner of N. Main St. and Kyger St. Another I remember was Hamilton's grocery and I am not sure if that was on W. Green or not. I was thinking it was. I have thoroughly enjoyed the website and am hoping someone out there has some old photos of these old Mom & Pop groceries. Also A&P grocery was where the Eagles Lodge is now. I haven't seen any old pictures of that either. Please call Steve as he is anxious to get as much as he can on this website. Thanks for the memories.
I wish I had pictures, but my mother was good friends with the Kites and especially Velma after she moved to Indianapolis (??) My grandparents lived on Catterlin St, next to "Corns Grocery" which is where Pat/Larry and Bill Wheatly lived. It was pretty neat as a young boy to walk next door, get an ice cream cone and tell them to "charge it" ha ha..I also remember my grandmother getting a little upset at my bill!! I love the site..I thought I had some pictures, and when I tried to put my finger on them....gone.
When I was very young, lets say birth to age 3, we lived on Delphi Ave and Hamilton's was where my parents shopped and I do believe it was on W Green. I have so many memories of this small store and Ora, Francis, Jimmy and Larry. You always walked to the store back then, that is why there were so many small ones, wives just didn't have cars. As you walked in (from my small child point of view), there were maybe 6 small shopping carts in front of the Cokes. Good old green coke bottles in a 6 pack that you took back every week. As there were only two aisles, you walked down to the meat counter where you looked over the meat, told Orie what piece you wanted and then walked up the other side to Francis who wrote down every thing you had and put the paper under the drawer to be added up later. Everything was put in a box and Larry would jump on his bike and meet you at your door with it. My favorite memory is of a HUGE doll on the top shelf that I had wanted FOREVER (okay, to a 3 year old, 2 days is FOREVER), but I think it was for my birthday. Larry made a big show of getting it down from over the coolers and putting it in his basket and riding slowly along as I ran home with my mother... I don't remember what the doll looked like, but I remember the smile on Larry's face as he handed it to me. Try and get that memory from a clerk at Walmart... Then we moved to the east end and I was a daily customer of the much larger, but still small grocery next to Hugh's Diner. Starts with an S.....someone help me out on this one....having a middle age moment....on E Walnut...they had a son named Dave... Anyway, I was never in a Kroger or a Marsh or even the A&P until I as a teenager. I know we all have our "Qwiki Marts" now where we get to know the clerks, sort of, but it just isn't the same. PJ
That grocery was Schultz, I believe. Who can remember the name of the store on Washington Ave. Can't remember the side street but west of the store was the railroad tracks. The owners name may have been King. They lived across the street from my grandparents on the avenue and my folks rented a house from them which they bought for $3,000 in the mid 1940s. That's where I grew up and learned to love Frankfort and enjoyed walking everywhere. Shirley Cassiday and I used to spend our weekends walking all over town. Parents never worried about us, most of the time by the time we got home our parents would tell us where we had been. It takes a small town to raise a family. Thanks to all who have built this website. It's great. Linda
It was Shuler's (spelling) on E Walnut next to Hugh's, finally came to me! I well remember the store on Washington Ave as they carried fireworks and my friends and I would go buy them there so the parents wouldn't know what we were up to. They were of course the legal kind, but we felt like we were pulling one off since our folks didn't go to that store. Yes, this is a great website and it is greatly appreciated. PJ
Yes,PJ you are right. After I wrote the reply, I went to bed and all night Schuler's kept going through my head. Riley students were probabably their best customers. They had great penney candy.
Linda, oh, yes, they had great penny candy! I remember that to the left of the front door was the comic book rack (wish I still had those!) and the magazine rack was there in the front (lots of Tiger Beats bought there), then you went around the corner past the register to the candy counter. For a quarter, you could eat sugar all day long....Good times....I have a sudden craving for Root Beer Barrels...and Cherry Bombs...and Bazooka Bubble Gum, which we always opened and read the same lame comics over and over... PJ
I used to live at 201 N.Oneill Street when I was 4yrs.old I am now 62yrs.On the NW corner of Washington & O"neill street lived Norman&Leona Chapman.On the north east corner was a house on Washington & next to that house east on Washington street northside was Smiths grocery.From Chapmans house on washington back west in that block past the alley lived people by the name of Dentons.My brothers and I played with their children David and Susie(Susan) good childhood friends I haven't seen for 58yrs! West of them lived Cotton and Ruth Camp.Mr.Camp worked at some car dealership(Dodge?)in Frankfort.Changing directions,my dad,Harold used to asst.manage Spencers Dept.store downtown.His best friend and I think manager of the store was Harry Coster.His wife went by the name of Dick-don't know why!Harry later moved toKalamazoo Mich. and opened and managed a Woolworth store and lived on Gun Lake near by.Enough chat for now thanks so much!
Does anyone remember the name of the grocery store on W.Armstrong St?Also there was one North of Kyger(50's)abt 1 or two blks on the north side of 28 west of the shopping Mart on the north side.
Ronald, your question finally prompted me to register here. ;) My maternal grandparents, Herb and Hazel Carpenter, used to live 2 doors down from Grimm's grocery store on West Armstrong Street. Mind you, i had to call my Aunt for the name. I was too young to remember anything except that it was there, right next to the railroad. Interestingly enough, after my grandparents moved to Sacramento, 2 of their 3 homes there were very close to railroad lines. :)
Granddad had a radio & TV repair business, and actually built the first television set in Frankfort. He worked a lot with Glenn Byrnes (or was it Burns? His son Gary was in my class, but I can't put my hands on a Cauldron right now.) Anyway, Glenn ended up with that first TV when my grandparents moved west. In the late 80s/early 90s, my two aunts drove back to Frankfort to visit and to pick up that old TV set. Aunt Nancy, the sentimental one, wanted to keep it.
Schulz's grocery, now Schulz IGA, on West Walnut, was started by Fred Schulz, who married my paternal Aunt Lucille (Best) Campbell.
The only grocery on Armstrong Street I remember is the one I mentioned above, Grimm's. I DO remember seeing a flower shop in the approximate location you describe, but being young back then, I don't recall noticing the name. Sorry! :(
Ron, I spoke to my Aunt in California, giving the description of the location of the florist, and she came up with Sparrow's Florist. I Googled the name and got the address: Sparrow's Florist and Greenhouse, 354 S. 1st Street, Frankfort, IN 46041.
She drew a blank on the Armstrong Grocery, but she will try to remember to ask her older sister (described as the one with the steel-trap mind) to see if she comes up with anything on that.
That was it Cheri-berri!Sparrows!I had an Uncle Bill Clidence who lived a block or two north on 1st on the east side maybe at the corner of Clinton or Columbia?I know he lived west of a chuch on 1st might have been a Nazerene Church?I guess I like childhood trivia!>Ha!Good chat,see ya!
If I am not mistaken, there was a grocery on the NE corner of Armstrong and 1st St., another on the SE corner of Armstrong and 5th St. I don't remember the names. There was Benton's Grocery on 2nd St. just north of Armstrong. Heaton's Grocery at the Jackson/Main intersection and also one on Meredith St (I think that was the name of the Street, between Columbia and Main.) Also on Jackson St. across from the fairgrounds. I was only 19 when I left Frankfort so the memory isn't as good as it was.
Ron, the "Aunt with the Good Memory" agreed that the name of the other grocery you asked about on Armstrong Street was indeed Armstrong Grocery, but didn't say where she thought it was. (Though I think the "Aunt with the slightly less good memory" didn't ask that part of the question.)
And, of course the one that Jane mentioned on South Jackson across from the fairgrounds was Spencer's.
The first Tv I seen for any length of time was at David Lippsetts house.He lived on the sw corner on Main and Armstrong.I believed we watched Superman with George Reeves.I was always late coming home from school so Dad finally broke down and bought a tv.One of the first channels was WFBM channel6 and one of the commercials was Pittsburg Paint Glass.The man who did weather at the time did the commercial.It showed breaking glass and then they reverse the shot to show how quickly they could get it repaired.GO FRANKFORT HOT DOGS!!!
I lived north (went to Lincoln) the grocery store that comes to mind is Lee's, located on the South side of Kyger on the alley between Green and Gentry. There was a cooler on the front porch to get your cold drinks and for about 10 cents you could get a candy bar and drink, sit on the front steps and watch the cars go by on Kyger.
The thing that would blow your mind if it was there today...... a gas pump sitting on the curb. Locals would stop on Kyger and go inside to pay for the gas. Mr. Lee would come out and pump the gas up into the glass globe at the top, then fill the cars tank.
Everything was wrong by todays standards..... parking on a busy street, and the gas tank just inches from the curb.
What happened to Fred Shultz and his brother ? He was moveing to Florida last I talked to him. He lived on corner of Clay and Armstrong I think. Was that Fred or his brother ?
Denny Hollis-When I was abt 6 yrs old,I was a batboy for a little league team and my coach,s last name was Hollis.The only thing I remember much abt him was he let me ride in a Frankfort Little League Parade in his car.I thought that was big stuff!I always thught they called him "Bud" but I'm not sure.
