POOLE in the Past...

Main Street...

Looking West on Main Street from North Avenue. A photo postcard (about 1900?) by S.D. Butche & Son, Kearney, Nebraska, card (one cent stamp) addressed to "Miss May Clayton, Poole, Nebr."
The full-blown photo (242 kb) might reveal, from the right, the large building advertises "Board & Lodging," with "156" below the board-walk, probably a street address? The next building to the left is "C. W. Duncan - Hardware and General Merchandise." Plus "Restaurant." This building became "Pat's Store." The third building to the left is clearly marked "Post Office."

   From the right, according to Winona Snell's map of Poole, the first building is the "Town Hall." The second building is "Dow, Klein, Duncan, Pat's." Winona labeled the third building as "barber," and the next one "Soda Fountain." According to her map, down the row was the Post Office, Criffield Store, Lumber Yard, Pool Hall, Blacksmith Shop, Harness Shop, and Hardware & Machinery on the corner of Main & Clayton.
   One of those buildings, the Criffield Store (with the deck), would become the "Anderson" building, where Glenn Clayton "Pat" Stover got his start in merchandising.
    Zooming in also reveals some folks, and some horse-drawn carriages.

Main Street looking east, somewhat later with more buildings. Obviously, the lumber yard on the left, the large Criffield/Anderson store, and the relatively new brick bank building. On the right, the Wort elevator. To its left a mystery building not large enough to be the stone garage that later temporarily housed the school in 1926.

**Photo courtesy Joyce Drown Brennan. (Click for full photo, 412 kb)**

Hand-drawn map by Winona Snell (I'm sure the depot is mis-placed;
it was west of the Duncan lane, across Main Street from the Chas Hanna lot).

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