Jane and Charles McCafferty opened the Outdoorsman store "alongside the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee" in the 1950s, as depicted in the pages of the Culver Citizen. Is this the same store that became Clara Hanson's restaurant and sporting goods store, still operating today on Lake Shore Drive near the train depot?
View of the east side of north main Street in downtown Culver in the early 1970s. Visible, in spite of the poor quality of the original image, is the Kelly shop, run by Marilyn Kelly of Culver.
J's 5 &...? the dime store that once operated where Michelle's Headquarters is located today on the east side of north Main Street, across from the public library in downtown Culver. This photo, taken in the early 1970s, also shows a portion of Marilyn Kelly's Kelly Shop at right.
D.W. Miller Livery & Auto Garage 1914
D.W. Miller, owner of the D.W. Miller livery and auto garage on today's Lake Shore Drive (then Toner Ave.) in the 400 block where today's City Tavern is located.
This photo of Miller -- an ancestor of Jim Weirick -- is part of the Weirick collection and was probably taken in the teens or 1920s.
An advertisement for the O'Connor Greenhouse at 1010 South Main Street in Culver, with accompanying article. According to the article, the building was built in 1931 by Mr. and Mrs. Ira McClain, who ran the business until 1942, when the O'Connors bought it. This article comes from the Pilot-News newspaper's July, 1951 centennial edition, so the O'Connor florist shop was in business at least until that time. Does anyone know what became of the shop?