Pieces of the Past: Back to 1936

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Back to 1936

Some more pictures from the little book published in 1936 with pictures of the businesses and residences in the little town of Chillicothe, Illinois. Since I lived in Rome and not Chillicothe as a child, my mom never shopped at this little neighborhood grocery. I believe there were at least two other ones in town. Mom would shop at Kroger or the A & P when we made the three mile trip to Chilli for groceries. Back then, it seemed like a long way. Rome had it's own little store and you can check out a post I did on that earlier by clicking on Lawson's

One of the two drug stores on the main street in Chillicothe. Carlisle's was there forever, but Moffitt's was the one the kids liked since it had a soda fountain. What a treat it was to have some chocolate ice cream with marshmallow and pineapple. Yummy! Cherry cokes were also a tasty treat. Chillicothe's main business district was two blocks long on Second Street. It was a thriving little place for a lot of years but then went the way of most of the businesses in small towns when people started to travel further to shop in big malls in larger cities. In this case, it was Peoria that lured the shoppers to come spend their money outside of town.

An added note - this weekend was the Alumni Banquet in Chillicothe. This is the 65th anniversary of my graduation from high school with a class of 45 - 30 girls and 15 boys. Our class has had a reunion every five years in connection with the banquet which meant that you not only saw your class members, but many of the people who were in school at the same time with you. This is the first one I have missed - makes me a bit sad as I think you feel more like siblings than classmates when the class is so small. Five years ago my daughter drove me there and that was a lot of fun. Maybe I will get there for my 70th!! If my sis were still living, I would have been there for sure. Life continues to change and we just have to continue to embrace the changes! I hope they had fun and I am sure they missed me! (Click to enlarge)

1 comment:

MrCachetJune 13, 2011 at 1:10 PM
What a great post, Carol! I came back to look at what I missed. My mother-in-law's 86th birthday was yesterday. Class reunions or some cases, school reunions are always an EVENT when you go over the fifty mark in any of those categories.

The images are great, but in this case? Story. There's always next time!
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Old Pictures of the People in My Life

In this blog, I will post pictures from the past of the many people in my life who I love and have loved. The initial post and any that are labeled Pearce Family refer to my mother's family. Dan and Maggie Pearce had five children, Nelle, Nan, my mother, Harry (Ham), Leah and Ed. They took a lot of pictures and I plan to post many of them. My brother has sent me many pictures over the internet this past week - some of which I haven't seen - and this has prompted me to set up this blog to display those wonderful old photos.

I will also be posting pictures of my family, my husband's family, and our family. Those posts will be labeled by the family's name in the list on the sidebar. I hope this is something that will be enjoyed by anyone who looks in on

my blog.

I will try and tell as much as I can remember about people and places and events and of course much of it will be inaccurate but really just having the great old photographs to look at is fun in itself. And I do know who lots of the folks are.

Enjoy.