Meyersdale, PA
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Businesses from the Past
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Pictured above was Joe Spataro's Dairy Dipp, which was located on Center Street possibly number 9 or 10, from at least the late 1920s until sometime in the 1950s. Joe and Hattie Spataro owned and ran the store, and the store was part of their house. The store sold hamburgers, sodas, and ice cream and had dancing. (Submitted by Dorothy Hinchcliff) |
This was a window display at R. Reich & Son, a Center Street furniture
store started in 1870 by R. Reich who made chairs and other furniture.
They also made coffins and went into the undertaking business and
had the first horse-drawn hearse in town. The original owner's son,
Joe F. Reich then ran the business and built a four-story building
on Center Street next to the present-day post office in 1903. This
picture appeared in the Meyersdale Centennial book. |
Storefront of the former Habel & Phillips Store, a grocery store,
taken from the Meyersdale Centennial book. Other groceries that Meyersdale
natives may remember include Lucentes, Polvinales, and H. J. Ebbeckas.
Markets around 1900 also include S. C. Hartley & Co., dry goods,
J. H. Pfahler, groceries and dry goods, and Hocking Bros., drygoods.
In later years, the A&P and Acme were both located on Market Square. |
An aerial view of the former Meyersdale Mfg. Company, the shirt factory
that was built in 1928 by local stockholders, for the Phillips-Jones
Mfg. Co. In 1946, John C. Layton, a manager, then established the
Stock Shirt Mfg. Co. that operated in the parish hall of Sts. Philip
and James and later moved to a new building in 1947 on Thomas Street.
After his death four years later it would become the bra factory later
run by Herbert Margolis who established the Madeline May Company.
This photo appeared in the Meyersdale Centennial book. |
The interior of the former Miller & Collins Department Store that
was located at the corner of Center and Main streets where the Meyersdale
Public Library is presently located. The business was started by Norman
E. Miller in 1884. George Collins later joined the business. Former
patrons may remember how the money was collected at the counter and
transferred to the cashier's office in a box attached to a pulley
rope and the change was returned the same way to the customer. Alexander
Stephens later got the business from the Miller heirs in1939 and his family operated it until after he died in 1950. The building caught fire in the early 1960s and created a plume of smoke that could be seen for miles. At that point, it ceased to exist. This picture was taken from the Meyersdale Centennial book. |
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