Trenholm Plaza, then and .. then: 1964, 1970 15 comments
As usual, I got to the library about 5 minutes before closing time, and was trying to look up several things. One of them was old City Directory listings for Trenholm Plaza. In the event, I got two, one for 1964, when I would have been three years old, and perhaps dimly conscious that we were going to the same places a lot, and one from 1970 when I would have been nine years old, and looking forward to Western Auto visits to window shop at all the "hobby batteries" and bicycles.
I'm pretty sure Trenholm Plaza was a golf course not too many years before 1964, so that wave of stores is probably pretty close to the original list:
While many of those stores lasted for years, the USPO is the only original tenant left.
There are a lot of hold-overs in 1970, but a good bit of turnover as well:
Interestingly (to me), I can't for the life of me recall a Gene's Pig 'n Chick in Trenholm Plaza at all, and I would have thought it would have stuck in my mind. I don't recall those dentists either, and in fact am a little surprised by seeing non-retail there.
Of these TP stores, I've done closings for:
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Weston
2 Nov 10 at 7:27 am
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Edens and Avant completed a facelift on Trenholm Plaza recently but a lot of the details were never clear to me except for the article I've linked to...
Andrew
2 Nov 10 at 3:38 pm
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Interesting. Of course it wasn't a "win/win" for the businesses forced out..
ted
2 Nov 10 at 4:02 pm
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I think the dentists were in a seperate building next to Standard Savings. I don't recall the Pig & Chick either, but I don't see Ponderosa Steak House listed. Wonder if it could have been a 'doing buisness as" or D.B.A. situation?
Tom
2 Nov 10 at 5:27 pm
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I thought the Trenholm Plaza remodel was going to add a multi stories to the building where Hooligans is.
ChiefDanGeorge
2 Nov 10 at 6:40 pm
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Thanks for the article. I could never remember the name of the delicatessen, but I remember that it had good pastrami sandwiches.
Jim
2 Nov 10 at 9:46 pm
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@Tom: I think Ponderosa came in after 1964 and burned down before 1970. It was more or less where Chipolte is.
@CDG: The article Andrew linked mentions that the original plan was to tear down the Holligan's wing and build new, but that got deep-sixed by the arrival of the economic collapse and they opted to re-model instead.
ted
2 Nov 10 at 10:11 pm
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Three of the stores have the letters 'clo' after them. Anyone know what this stands for?
4 Nov 10 at 2:38 am
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It appears to me that if a store's name does not make obvious what it sells, they put a short description in lower case after the name, Ie: "Jorj Galleries art gallery", or "Rose's Stores Inc dept store"
My assumption is that "clo" would be "clothing".
ted
4 Nov 10 at 2:48 am
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I just noticed the old alpine and sunset prefixes on some of the telephone numbers in the 1964 directory. That takes me back.
Jim
4 Nov 10 at 7:50 pm
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ted
4 Nov 10 at 8:49 pm
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I found some old stationery of my grandfather's that showed his telephone number as 4-3539. Later it became AL4-3539.
Jim
6 Nov 10 at 5:41 pm
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Dr. Salter's office was in that same out-parcel where Humphries' Barber Shop, the book store and Ed. Robinson was.
Mt father worked at Humphrise from about 1964-1972 when we moved to Chapin and he opened his own shop. Dad has the chair, either right by the window, or the next one in, not entirely sureJim R
13 Feb 12 at 10:21 pm
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Loved buying shoe's at Garber's- you always got a silver shoe with candy and a whistle. Tapp's Twig (CLO for clothing) was opened late on Thursday and I would plead with my mother to take me shopping there on Thursday night!
Have two scars from the A&P. Had my first grade b-day party at the Editsto Ice cream ( I remember my ballerina cake) and
my first checking account was at Standard Savings and Loan.
Yes, TP is a different place, sans the post officeeleanor boyd
10 Aug 12 at 2:40 pm
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The Forest Acres Post Office is the only original tenant at Trenholm Plaza
Andrew
10 Aug 12 at 7:57 pm
Dr. Salter was my dentist when I was a kid. I started seeing him around 1982-1983, but by then he had moved behind Trenholm Plaza to Monckton Blvd. His office is still there, and I thought his son had taken over, but the current listings are for Richard Salter Jr, so it may be his grandson? Dr. Salter was fairly old when I was going there nearly 30 years ago...