The barber shop is gone........

This photo can cause you to have many questions.  This town, Murray, Iowa,  had it's centennial back in 1968.  It makes the town to be around 143 years old.  The original buildings of the early days were all brick.  Somehow the building of the tthree  buildings in a row were structurally connected  so now we have an arch.

To the left was a drugstore and to the right was a hardware store.  The hardware store was transformed into a movie theater in it's last days.  The drugstore was overbuilt by an energetic owner that added a second story and covered up most of the brick.  The owner of the building to the right of the former movie theater must have liked silver enamel paint as it spreads from the theater on down the way to the last building on the corner.

Just put a little paint on it.........

An older building in Murray, Iowa.  It was once owned by the families of Watts and Soll who also owned the funeral home. Watts and Soll  sold furniture out of this building with the upstairs being a meeting hall.  I don't know if the Red Hat Ladies still meet up stairs as the photo is a couple of years old.

I remember being in this building when my parents bought furniture for their new home on the farm.  It was in 1959.