Yearbook Advertising

As mentioned previously, a number of Brookings businesses advertised in the 1931 Bobcat yearbook.  Two of them have personal connections.  One that is rather significant  is Tidball Pharmacy.  He started his business at 317 Main, where Coast to Coast was when we were growing up.  In 1925, however, he moved a few doors north, to 321 Main.  In 1946, he sold it to Chan Shirley, thus becoming Shirley Pharmacy that many of us remember.  My family's connection is that the house we moved into in 1963 was built by Mr. Tidball.  According to this website, (http://www.docstoc.com/docs/35726016/609-4th-Street)  "Clyde and Florence Tidball, a local druggist, had this home built from a compilation of several builders plans.  The house features exposed rafters and brackets.  The walls are of gray stucco and the gabled roof has a shed dormer and balcony--convenient for shaking second story (sic) rugs."

The other notable business is G. M. McMahon, Dentist.  His office was upstairs in the Bartling Building.  He was my dentist in the 60's.  Anyone else see him?  He practiced for about 50 years there, from 1926-1976.  

Other notable businesses, with perhaps some interesting trivia; how many of these do you remember?:

Brookings Steam Laundry-- their phone number was 95; Hauff's Millinery--any connection to Barb Haauff in our class?; Dr. M. C. Tank--anyone have him for a physician?; University of South Dakota--at that time, the only university in the state; Nickel Hamburger Shop--forerunner to Nick's?; Montgomery Wards; Ray's Drug Store; Columbia Clothing--would later become Quails, and then Wilson's; Oyloe's Studio--their origins go back to Dakota Territory; Kendall and Locke Druggists, the Rexall Store--what we knew as Kendall's Rexall Drug Store:  A. A. MacMillan Band Instruments; Waltz Hardware; Rude's Furniture; Matson's Brothers Druggists: J.C. Penney;  Sexauer and Son; Cole's--their slogan was "a store of youth, a store of fashion."