In the interest of truth I must comment on the editorial in today’s Globe Gazette. It references the empty corner at Second and North Federal which has stood empty for several years.
These are the facts; It was never the site of the Green Mill resturant. That resturant was located South of the corner; the corner was occupied for close to forty years by the Singer Sewing Machine Company until they closed their doors. There was a dry cleaner in the building immediately South of the sewing machine store which the Green mill eventually consumed into their resturant. Further South of the Green Mill stood Boomhower’s Hardware.
I leased the sewing machine store in the middle sixties and moved my gallery into it. The gallery was called, European Fine Arts. A short while later I bought the property from its long time owner, Mr. Roy Harris. Mr. Harris was close to 98 or 99 years old at the time and told me he was born upstairs. His father was a pharmacist and lived over the store. When I sold my business to John Beck and Dave Nelson, they bought the building from me as well.
Peter Children