BUSINESS LINE: TIME LINE REFLECTS GROWING, CHANGING BUSINESS SCENE

1960-1969

1960 Charles N. Harris founded Atlas Plastics.

1960 B & J Refrigeration opened as partnership between Marshall Bailey and Leon Jansen; later became Jaymac Equipment Co.

1960 Montgomery Mobile Home Sales opened.

1960 Pop's A & W Drive-In opened.

1960 Professional Business Systems founded by Lloyd Lorberg.

1960 Charles Garber moves Garber's, men's clothing store, to Town Plaza.

1960 Old Joseph Sciortino Grocery Store building, frame, in 600 block of Good Hope, razed.

1960 Making room for parking lot, 103-year-old brick mill building on Water Street was razed.

1960 Model Grocery closed, after serving Girardeans 39 years; last location was at 521 Broadway.

1960 Ruh's Market, in operation here 53 years, closed.

1960 Victor L. Klarsfeld, owner of Rialto Theater, purchased Broadway Theater building.

1960 New 17,000-foot tower of KFVS-TV went into operation.

1960 B.I. Howard purchased Wulfers's building on Broadway; housed Howard Athletic Goods Co.

1961 Otasco, Inc. No. 94 opened on Main Street.

1961 Cape State Bank opened.

1961 Orscheln Farm & Home started.

1961 Opera House on Broadway sold to Richard Barnhouse.

1962 Gerald Kaiser bought Riverside Ice and Fuel Co. and continued business under that name.

1962 Al's Midtown Lounge opened by Mr. and Mrs. Al Buchheit at 627 Good Hope.

1962 Montgomery Ward store launched half-million dollar expansion program, acquiring Bahn Brothers Hardware building from Houck estate.

1962 Sinclair Oil Co. purchased Simpson Oil Co. for total sale price of $6,000,000; sale included Colonial Restaurant and adjoining service station.

1962 H.G. Schmidt sold L.A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc., to Harry Messmer, Charles Harris and Walter Schmidt.

1963 Pete and Pee Wee Rhodes opened one of first automatic car washes in area at 2301 William; eventually added tire service and became Plaza Tire Service, having phased out car wash in 1967.

1963 Advanced Business Systems started at 430 Broadway.

1963 Town Plaza Standard Station was built by Burton Gerhardt Construction for Standard Oil of Indiana.

1963 Central Packing Co. sold to George Wrape and Earl Steele of St. Louis.

1963 Fire did $30,000 damage to Cauble & Field wholesale grocery warehouse on South Middle Street.

1964 Wieser Motor Company opened at 523 Broadway.

1964 First Federal Savings and Loan Association moved into new office building in 300 block of Broadway.

1964 Jim Stovall purchased interest of McCarty Bros. in McDonald Concrete Ready-Mix.

1965 Cape GMC-Pontiac established.

1965 Edgewater Glass opened on South Plaza Way

1965 Plaza Gifts & Office Supplies began operating at 2106 William.

1965 Arkansas Best Freight purchased and built relay terminal on 10-acre site on Nash Road.

1965 Charter Finance founded with John E. Harper as president.

1965 Edward D. Jones & Co. opened.

1965 Kentucky Fried Chicken started.

1965 Atlas Plastics broke ground for third addition to plant.

1965 Delta Truck line merged into Arkansas Best Freight system.

1965 Cape Supply Co. and Associated Building Center chain acquired 10-acre tract near Municipal Airport.

1965 Fire destroyed new Jim Wilson Co. warehouse at Themis and Sprigg.

1965 Shoe factory on North Main converted from International Shoe operation to Florsheim Shoe.

1965 St. Charles Hotel sold at public auction to Mayor C.A. Hood.

1966 Rental Land opened at 1455 Independence.

1966 Gene Huckstep assumed ownership and management of Huckstep Body & Paint Shop.

1966 Vi and Eddie Keys established Key's Music at 110 N. Main.

1966 New Wards Big Star supermarket opened at Highway 61 and Broadway, immediately adjacent to older store which was vacated.

1966 New Rust & Martin store opened on Highway 61.

1966 Erlbacher Foundry building, 231 N. Main, razed; Missouri Employment Security office building built on site.

1967 New A & P Supermarket opened at 2121 William.

1967 Al's Midtown purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Al Buchheit by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kohlfeld.

1967 Cape State Bank became Cape State & Trust Co.

1967 Missourian Litho and Printing moved to 500 William.

1967 St. Charles Hotel building razed.

1967 Jerry Drury bought franchise for Ramada Inn.

1967 Procter & Gamble Co. took options on land north of Cape Girardeau as possible site for paper products plant.

1967 Braun's market closed; had served Good Hope area for 65 years.

1967 Bumpa-Tel Inc., moved to Cape Girardeau from Mounds, Ill., by Warren Hastings.

1968 Shivelbine's Music Store moved to new location at 630 Broadway.

1968 Bob's Shoe Service moved to 515 Broadway.

1968 Sunny Hill Garden & Pet Center built at 335 Christine.

1968 Children's Bazaar opened.

1968 Margraf Jewelry moved to 439 Broadway.

1968 Riverside Lumber Co. changed to Riverside Lumber & Supply Co.

1968 Construction began on Kroger Plaza.

1968 Superior Electric Products Corp. sold.

1968 Bennett Corrugated Paper Box Co. established plant on Nash Road.

1968 Superior Electric Co. constructed addition to its Nash Road plant.

1969 Grecian Steak House opened.

1969 Associated Building Center incorporated.

1969 Capaha Bottling purchased by Marion Pepsi Cola of Marion, Ill.

1969 Moon Distributing located on Nash Road.

1969 Hardware Wholesalers located on Nash Road.

1969 Vandeven Mercantile Co. closed.

1969 Thad Bullock acquired Marquette Hotel.

1969 New Florsheim Shoe Co. plant on Highway 74 opened.