South Street, Lebanon, Under Snow

Description:	Looking east on West South Street from South Lebanon Street, possibly February 1912. Caption: The building now between the old Tripps brick residence and the Ball Bldg., had not yet been built. the M. E. Church [Centenary Methodist Church] is at the right. It was razed in March-April, 1963.To the left in the photo is the sandwich wagon operated by Reuben Coxen McIntyre, from around 1908 until his death, May 2nd 1916, at age of 71. He was born in Ohio, and served in Co. G, 63rd Ind. Vol. Inf., in Civil War. Was an uncle of the late Brush MIntyre. Sandwich wagon sold in middle of May, 1916, to Thos. Ham, who did not continue long in the business. Writer remembers buying a hamburger sandwich, replete with onion, ,pickle and mustard, at McIntyres One Horse Hotel, as it was facetiously alluded to, for a nickle. Made a meal of two hamburgers and a bottle of iron brew pop (Mfgd. by Lebanons Pop Smith.) all for fifteen cents. reuben sported a great handle-bar moustache, bleached white by the years, but the points yellowed and stiffened with grease and mustard.February, 1912, was a bad month for Lebanon. The Olympic Theater, 124 S. Lebanon St., burned on Saturday night, January 27, 1912, and the frame First Baptist Church, ,on N. East St., between Main and Washington St., burned on Sunday morning, February 4, 1912.
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll4/id/640
Collection:	Boone County Heritage
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Subjects:	Streets

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