Farmers Bank Block - c 1909

Keeton Realty - revised on May 13, 2011

The picture on this postcard would probably been taken in the mid 1970's based on the automobiles in the picture (anyone have an idea of the time frame for the picture?). The buildings that I identify are Keeton Realty (was Trudgeon's Drug Store when I lived in Union City), the local General Telephone central office, and the Methodist Church.

Note - Regarding the building in the picture ...(from the publication titled "Historical Industrial and Social Record of Peerless Union City Michigan" edited, compiled, and published by Tom F. Robinson in March 1903) identifes the corner building as the "Farmers' Bank Block".

Note - Got a comment from a blog viewer suggesting the date of the picture would have been in the 1970's rather than the 1960's based on two of the auto's in the picture.

Trudgeon's Drug Store - 1954

Interior of Trudgeon's Drug Store, the picture was taken in June 1954.  Elma (Wisnieski) Carpenter who sent me the picture.  She worked at Trudgeon's before working as a teller at the bank.  Along with Elma behind the counter is Frank Trudgeon who opened the drug store in 1945.  I remember as a little boy going into the store and buying penny candy from the cabinet on the left side of the picture ...how patient he must have been, waiting for us little soles to decide what to spend our pennies on.  You can see the big safe in the background, from when the store had once been the Farmers Bank.