December 20, 1956
Christmas 1956 Advertisements
A & M Sport Center (in the Pomeroy Hotel?)
Bank of Pomeroy in the Knettle Bank Building
Bartlow Auto & Implement Co. at the east end of Pomeroy
Brown's Drug Store. At this point, it was still on the corner of 8th and Main
Someone wanted what was on the other side of this Burch-Adams Grocery advertisement.
Centennial Mills, elevator operator
Central Market was one of four grocers in Pomeroy at the time.
Chet Land Plumbing.
Christsen-Rauch, when you needed electronics before Radio Shack
It wasn't a "No L" dance. It was a "No E" Dance.
Only 1956 and people were already trading in their televisions for better ones.
Pomeroy's own Credit Bureau
One of several restaurants in town
Curran's Texaco, on the NW corner of 10th and Main.
This was where you'd get your farming chemicals
Every town needs its variety store
Someone must have been hungry! Don's Drive-In
For a long time, Dr Brink had his offices in the Farley Block on the SE corner of 6th and Main.
Everyone knew Dr. Weiland. Offices above the Post Office.
Nice advertisement from the publisher of this section
At the corner of (now) 8th and Main, it's Emerson-Hull
Farm and Home at the west end of downtown. Another business still here, but in a slightly different location
Lot of loot being given away for Christmas in 1956.
Gates Insurance ... next to the Post Office
General Tractor
Gerry's Beauty Shop and OK Barber Shop
"Ho Ho Ho"
Round trip to Ellensburg to see the kids at college for $11.70
Burch-Adams was down by (then) 3rd and Main, the Central Market was just up the street, and Don Martin had just closed on his purchase of People's Market, located between the Bank on (then) 3rd and Main and Meyer's.
Helen's Apparel
Ilene's Beauty Shop. Above the PO?
Inland Motor Freight. How all this stuff got here.
Jack's Auto Clinic
Jones' Meat Lockers
Kraemer's Barber Shop.
One of the few businesses still here 60+ years later. (Different location, though)
Kuykendall's Drug Store. Originally known as the Central Drug Store.
Lone Star Service on the eastern edge of Pomeroy
Possibly the last advertisement for Martin's Market as Don Martin was in the process of closing on the Peoples' Market.
McKeirnan's Hardware and Implement Company
McMonigle Chevrolet
Walter Oliver -- Owner of Oliver's Insurance Agency
Obenland Insurance
Old National Bank was in Pomeroy for a long time.
Owl Heating Oil Co.
and
Owl Service Station
They must have liked this advertisement at Pacific Power and Light as they used it for several years. Reddy Kilowatt looks good, though.
Pantorium Cleaners
It was worth a drive out to Pataha for Dinner. But not on Christmas Day
How do these prices at the Pataha Store look?
People's Market. Next to the ONB above. Later, physically part of the bank after (yet another) downtown fire.
Pomeroy Auto Parts. In the Historic Hotel Revere
Here's your Christmas specials from People's Market.
Anyone remember this cafe? Pomeroy Cafe
Pomeroy Dairy Products on the way to Tum-A-Lum
Pomeroy Eagles Aerie wished you Merry Christmas
From all the farmers in the Pomeroy Grain Growers
The Pomeroy Grange building is about 200 feet east of where it was in 1956.
Pomeroy Rexall Pharmacy in downtown
Still here, in a different location, and known as Richardson-Brown.
Stanley's OK Rubber Welders. Try explaining that to a youth today.
In December 1956, Strain's Hardware was in the "Seeley Block." After that building burned in late, 1959, they moved further west on Main and across the street.
They got their oil business start at Schnecklothl/Waldher Service Station
Torpey's on Main, right next to Mission Shell. They sold Fords.
Trosper's Mission ShellNumber 1 in the Historic District.
Transit Concrete?
Tum-A-Lum Lumber was at the location where the Post Office is as of December, 2022.
Dinner with a view.
Vernon's Flowers
Weimer's Garage, where you could buy Dodge trucks and Chrysler cars.