Ellis County Texas Archives Photo Place.....Alma Business 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 July 20, 2022, 7:01 pm Source: Alma Historical Photos Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/photos/almabusi18480gph.jpg Image file size: 64.3 Kb Block 3 Lots 1-10 Facing Railway on Front Street Bldg with 3 clerestory windows was the old Alma Bank (empty since 1929) Lot 4 Lot 5 J.L. Stewart Mercantile Store Stewart store stayed in business longer than any other. Opened ca 1912 Died April 1957 Lot 6 William Willis Store Barber Shop and gas Station...also Tom Kelly Meat Market. Mr. Willis had a gas pump and an ice house in back. Victorian soda fountain in Store. Lot 7 W.W. Ercanbrack and wife ran a Cafe ca 1917-21 Lot 8 A.E. Wright mercantile store. Baldridge grocery when Jane Bell went to school in Alma ca 1945. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/photos/almabusi18480gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb