Photos of Wolf Point businesses and Main Street
photos:
From a postcard dated March
16, 1915:
Notice the
"Rooming House" on the right of the page. My
great-grandfather, William Smith built it and his brother and
her wife ran it. It was built in 1913. Here's an old
photo showing it while it was built, dated 1913:
Soldiers
marching down Main Street in July of 1918. The J. H. Coffey
building was located
where the old Buttrey Foods
store (now a part of Bryans) was located:
Main Street in 1919. The
Post office (with the flag) appears to be on the left and the
Arcade Cafe on the right:
Wolf Point
Motor Company. On the back of these photos it says BUILT BY G.M. PRAY - WOLF
POINT, MONT. - 1917
An early
photo, possibly taken in the '40s of a Conoco station:
An aerial view of Main Street taken at night from the top of the
old water tower, 1940. The Sherman is in the background:
Probably taken in 1918, just
before the top 2 floors of the Sherman Hotel were built:
Main Street looking east,
around 1920
Main street in the 1930's
Main Street in 1918:
Wolf Point main street in 1919:
The next three photos are probably taken in the '40s - The
original and two blowups of the photo:
Another old view of Wolf Point:
From Sue Stevens, an inside photo of Lund Feed & Seed, with
Einar "Pork" and Kristine "Kitty" Lund, taken in 1939:
From Sue Thorsen Stevens, a 1962 photo of Lund Feed & Seed:
From Lyda Bowker, A
picture of the Modern Cafe inside, Behind the counter is
Mrs. C.E. (Clara ) Allen
and Mrs. Birkland. At the side is CrystalMahllum and other girl
is unknown, The Allen's had the cafe in the early 40's and later sold
it to the Birklands The Allens are Bob Bowker's Grandparents:
An early view of the
Stockman's Bar and Attorney Frank Catlin's office
These next two photos were taken about
1941: The business in the middle could be what later was the
Stockmans Bar and to the right of it could have been Frank
Catlin's office, but I'm not sure. I believe the photos
are of offices you'd see as you are going south towards main
street just leaving the underpass. Any ideas?
From the left
to the right on main street: my Grandfather Hanks' Barber Shop,
The Modern Cafe, The
Federated Store (later Bryan's), and Buttrey Foods, the largest
grocery store in Wolf Point (around 1954):
Taken from a color slide, circa 1950, looking down main street
from the east. The old VFW club can be seen, as well as
where the Ford dealer used to be. To the far right there
appears to be an old church.
Susan Goodman
provided these next four photos -- the 1919 Wolf Point baseball
team. The gentleman in the
dark
baseball
cap
and
the
dark
sleeves
is her grandfather,
Connie Schenkenberger:
Before my grandpa's barber shop, Sue states that her grandfather Connie (who's son was named Earl) and his wife Katie did hair. Here are some photos of that barber shop:
Connie with his dog, maybe in front of the Wolf Point Studio
Hank's Barber Shop (my grandfather) on Main Street (about 1945).
I do not know who the other Barber is, but the customers are Art
Toavs and Dutch Schreiber:
Hank Arndt, Sr. and Ralph Eggerbrecht
Hank and George Jensen:
Hank and 13 month old Terry Jackson, taken about July of 1967:
The Triangle Service
Station and Triangle Cafe in the mid '50s:
Sue Thorsen Stevens sent me this photo of Ellis C. Thorsen's
Conoco station just north of the Sherman Hotel:
The Piggly Wiggly store and Camrud Motors in about 1953:
Main Street with the Elks, The Liberty Theatre, Beacon Tire
Service and the Frigidaire dealer:
The movie playing at the Liberty
Theatre was "The Boy From Oklahoma" starring Will Rogers,
which was released in February of 1954.
The movie also starred Sheb Wooley, Slim Pickens and a
"later-to-be" talk show host by the name of Merv Griffin!
Main Street taken by me about 1978 just west of the Liberty
Theatre:
Below are some fairly current photos of Wolf Point:
Main Street:
The Underpass (which, by the way, was dedicated Friday, October
20th, 1939):
Looking south from the underpass:
Taken from the Amtrak train March 29, 2004 (author unknown):
Two more photos without the snow:
Yes, Wolf Point has a blizzard every once in awhile (Thanks to
Clint Whitmer for this 2004 photo)
The sign on Gillette Pharmacy, around since the late '50s.
Before that there was a Huxsol Drug sign:
Indians doing a "War Dance" in the early
days -- date unknown, probably close to 1919, as evidenced by
the following photo:
One of the earliest photos of Wolf Point - Indians doing a
"grass dance":
The Wolf Point Elks Club:
A more current photo of the Elks Club:
The Wolf Point Cafe:
A recent photo of Bryan's:
Old photos of the Grain Elevators:
The Equity Co-Op Elevator
A recent photo of KVCK Radio:
The Western National Bank in the late '60s
Another View of the Western National Bank:
In 1913, the First State Bank opened for business in the below
structure. In 1917 a new brick building was constructed
next door on the west side. The bank was chartered the
same year that the City Of Wolf Point was incorporated:
Pictured below is the interior of the original bank, located on
the south side of Main Street. Teller cages, or "bandit
barriers" were common in the early 1900s. Bank employees
in 1935 are (left to right) Lucy Lenz, Jim Brownlee, Al
Appelgren, and Ruth Harstad:
Pictured below is the interior of the First State Bank on the corner of Main Street and 3rd Avenue South, circa 1951. Pictured are (left to right) Patsy Green, Connie Terry, my Grandmother Helen Smith, Jim Brownlee, Pauline Garden, Lucy Lenz, John Witte, Laura Rathert and Lee Cowen:
After being denied approval to build a new bank building by the
State of Montana Banking Commissioner, the First State Bank
applied for and was approved for a national bank charter.
The Banks' name was changed to Western National Bank, and the
staff welcomed it's customers with a new facility in 1963:
Melba Miller, Edna and Philip Jackley and
perhaps Mrs. Thorson (customer) at Larsons' Jewelry:
Edna and Philip Jackley. Their store was located direcly across
the street from the Liberty Theatre. At one time it was the
mortuary. Joyce says that in the back room close to the back
door was a trap door, and she was terrified of that room and
avoided it faithfully:
An Ash Tray from the old Sherman Hotel:
Jim Peterson (Sid Petersons' son) was gracious enough to send me an old
color postcard of the Sherman Hotel from his dads' grocery store. Jim passed away in July of 2006.
The original hotel, built in 1917: