Owatonna Businesses From Over 40 Years Ago

Alexander Lumber is still going strong 40 years after this ad. A Google search shows Hiniker is still doing business in Mankato. Any of you still driving a Kawasaki purchased from your Owatonna Kawasaki dealer?

What's fun is to Google the addresses of these businesses and see what's there today. Scotti looks to have been where Owatonna Motor Co. is today. American Heritage appears to have been on a side street somewhere behind Hy-Vee. When I googled the Conley Wollin Funeral Home Chapel, up popped the building across from the Court House. It certainly looks like it could have been a funeral home. And of course you can still buy Surge products.

1976 was our 200th birthday celebration and hence the flag in the background. Central Co-op of course is now known as CFS. A little Googling shows that Mosier was just a baby in 1976, having been founded in 1975. And of course I still hear people refer back to the old Cashman Seed and Fertilizer from days gone by.

It appears that according to this ad, the Carpet Cart of West Concord was a carpet showroom on wheels. Here's a few other business that are no longer around.

I think I like this old ad best. It jarred my memory. I've had no reason to think about Grade "B" or Grade "A" milk anymore. As a young lad I remember "A" dairies had a little higher standard as far as being up to date with the milk going for drinking. Grade "B" farmers like my dad had it a little less restrictive in regards to being modern and their milk went for cheese and butter.