BUSINESS LINE: TIME LINE REFLECTS GROWING, CHANGING BUSINESS SCENE

1970-1979

1970 Joe James began James Glass & Auto Body on old Highway 61 South.

1970 Maico Hearing Aid Center established.

1970 Norman's Auto Sales & Radiator Service started.

1970 National Food Stores name changed to Del Farms.

1971 Hardware Wholesalers Inc. plant built on Nash Road.

1971 Broadway Medical Equipment began as part of Broadway Prescription Shop.

1971 Last remaining section of Alvarado destroyed.

1971 Minor's Harley Davidson/Suzuki Sales Inc. started.

1971 Himmelberger-Harrison Co. sold controlling interest to Mr. and Mrs. Joel A. Montgomery.

1971 Admiral Plastics plant on North Kingshighway leveled by fire; construction of new factory fronting on Broadview began immediately.

1972 Webb Manufacturing Co. became permanent corporation under name Delta Plastics.

1972 A & P Super Market on Spanish Street closed and was taken over by J. Ronald Fischer.

1972 Burger King Restaurant started at 2346 Broadway.

1972 Key's Music moved to 121 Broadway.

1972 Town Plaza Shopping Center purchased by Greater Missouri Builders Inc. of St. Louis.

1972 Former Vandeven store on Broadway sold to Craftsman Office Supply.

1972 Speed Equipment Worlds of America, Inc., opened in 2100 block of Broadway.

1972 Delta Plastics moved into new building on Highway 61 South..

1973 Children's Bazaar purchased by Judy and Rock Wilferth.

1973 Bicycle Shop opened at 30 S. Spanish.

1973 Charlie's Body shop opened at corner of Sprigg and Themis; owned by Charles Roberts.

1973 Bargain Hound opened.

1973 Cape State Bank & Trust became Cape Mercantile Bank.

1973 Hansel & Gretel started at 127 N. Frederick.

1973 Plans announced for construction of Westborough Mall.

1973 Howard Johnson Motor Lodge constructed at southwest corner of Route K and Interstate 55.

1973 Dollar General Store opened at 20 N. Spanish.

1973 Western Sizzlin' steak house opened.

1973 Weber TV and Appliance Center started.

1974 K-Mart discount department store opened at Kingshighway and Independence.

1974 Port Cape Girardeau opened.

1974 Schneider Industrial Equipment was formed.

1974 Cape Girardeau Building & Loan Association became Colonial Federal Saving and Loan Association.

1974 Culligan Water Conditioning opened.

1974 The Gingham Square opened in old Schultz Hospital, 605 Broadway.

1974 Gulliver's Travel Agency opened at 119 Themis.

1974 Cape Food Service established.

1974 Cape Suzuki established.

1974 Audio Village opened.

1974 Kemper & Dodd opened.

1974 Tall smokestack at Marquette Cement Co. demolished.

1975 Uncle Ralph's Furniture opened.

1975 Airport Galley Restaurant opened at Municipal Airport.

1975 The Sample House started on North West End Boulevard.

1975 Hork's Gun Shop established at 30 S. Park.

1975 Kar Parts opened.

1975 Sleepy Hollow opened.

1975 Burger Rich Family Restaurant opened.

1975 Hardee's Restaurant opened.

1976 Eugene Holloway Floor Covering established.

1976 Data Business Systems, Inc., started by Joe and Betty Wilson.

1976 Graham Mendenhall established Mr. Muffler.

1976 Walker Childs sold his grocery stores.

1976 Ozarks Outdoor Equipment opened.

1976 Schnucks-Walgreens opened at 19 S. Kingshighway.

1976 Golden Dragon restaurant opened at 217 N. Kingshighway.

1976 Captain D Restaurant opened.

1976 Brokers' Bonded Warehouse started in Greater Cape Girardeau Industrial Park.

1976 Fireplace Center opened.

1976 Federal Materials suspended production.

1976 Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. acquired by Gulf and Western.

1977 Rental Land moved into new quarters at 1922 Independence.

1977 A&P Super Market on William Street closed.

1977 A.B. Dick Products moved to 711 Good Hope.

1977 Advanced Business Systems built at 2845 Independence.

1977 Hacker Plumbing, Heating & Cooling started.

1977 Hirsch's Thriftway closed.

1977 Woolworth's downtown store closed.

1977 Taco Bell opened.

1977 Papa D Restaurant opened at corner Interstate 55 and Route K.

1977 The Remnant House started.

1977 Ludlow Corp. sold.

1978 Schneider Industrial Equipment moved to 420 S. Kingshighway and name changed to Mid-America Power Equipment.

1978 Curtis Mathis opened franchise store.

1978 Coors of Cape, Inc., began distributing beer.

1978 The Medicine Shoppe started at 893 N. Kingshighway.

1978 Charles N. Harris bought Riverside companies.

1978 Del-Farms opened new store.

1978 Worth's opened.

1978 Clothes Encounter opened.

1978 Good Hope Grocery opened.

1978 Snelling and Snelling, employment firm, started.

1979 Don and Teri Beattie purchased Nowell's Camera Shop.

1979 Children's Bazaar moved to West Park Village.

1979 Robert Ford established World of Honda.

1979 Acorn Enterprises opened at 1623 Independence.

1979 Cape Art Mart opened at 21 Plaza Way.

1979 Cast-A-Ways opened at 633 Broadway.

1979 Development of West Park Mall announced.

1979 Famous Recipe Fried Chicken Restaurant opened.

1979 Save-A-Lot opened.

1979 905 International Store opened.

1979 Bridgeway Restaurant opened at 302 Morgan Oak.

1979 Hechts Too opened.

1979 Wonder Bread Thrift Store opened.

1979 Cape Art Mart established at 21 Plaza Way.