Friday, November 12, 2010

A Little Peek at a Little Corner of Main (Bent) St. History in Powell WY in 1948

Since we are all waxing tears and eloquence over our home town of Powell Wyoming, here is the only other photo I can find taken on main (Bent to you natives) street.  The significance is not in the girls in the photo, but in the fact that the building on the right was a sort of shed-type building where Hiram Absire, Rose's dad (Rose was my true love in the 3d grade and Louise's friend, but Rose betrayed me in the 7th and I never spoke to her again; now getting back to the sentence, where Hi's Electric was located.  Dad made the sign with cut out block letters on it.  The gap between Hi's Electric and the Coulston Clinic where we went to the doctor until I left home in 1950 and where we had our tonsils out, was obviously just being excavated for Penney's, Moyer's relocated drug store, and whatever else went in there.  In the background is the old Presbyterian Church.  Didn't it get moved to another part of town?  The girls are, knowing you are not interested except for one, are, l-r, Wenoa White who was an Elk Basin oil family migrant, Celia Scott, and Loretta Winterholler.  And Louise, tell me if I'm wrong, but the three girls crossing the street are likely Dora Berryman, Phyllis Jesse, and Phyllis Bell, inseparable in high school.

5 comments:

Ann said...

Love seeing the clothing styles. Small town USA seems very desirable these days.

Elizabeth said...

Yes, the Presbyterians built a new big brick building, and the white church was moved and became the home of another denomination.

Steve Blood said...

The stone age, I have nothing..

Louise Blood said...

You are right on the three girls, Dwight. This is a good picture. Do you remember when it was that Dad made the letters for Hi's Electric? There really is more to the story about you and Rose. She actually first became my friend in 8th grade because I had this "cute" cousin, and she thought that would get him to notice her. Jimmy and you were kind of in cahoots and had a great time teasing Rose, which she really didn't mind at all. Do you remember what some of the teasing was about? We actually stayed friends even after Jimmy moved back to California.

Ann said...

Didn't the white church become the Episcopalian meeting house?