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Photograph shows a parking lot with horse-drawn carriages. A man stands in front of the horses. Perpendicular to the carriage lot is a row of shops where automobiles are parked in front at an angle. The signs on the shops read "Schluckebier Hdw Co.," "Peters & Peters Groceries." The buildings behind the carriage lot are painted with advertising signs. Some of the signs read: "Herold Drug Co., 2 stores, dependable druggists," "Briesh & Dabner for auto tops," "20-Mule Team Borax soap chips," "Sperry Flour, drifted snow." Schluckebier Hardware Company, Inc. was a hardware store based in Petaluma, California. Peters & Peters Groceries was a grocery store based in Petaluma, California. Its proprietors were Herman J. and Henry G. Peters. Schluckebier and Peters were located on Main Street in Petaluma. In 1907, the Young-Herold Drug Company opened at the corner of Kentucky and Washington Streets in Petaluma, California. Harry Herold became the sole owner in 1923 and continued in the business until his death in 1932. (From Skip Sommer: "How Angela Canepa Spent her Husband's Gold" in Stories from the Past, The Petaluma Post, March 2011: http://www.petalumapost.com/03Mar2011-pages/smallPDFMarch/11.pdf (accessed 9/14/11.) The building still stands in Petaluma and is known as the Herold Building. Adolph Briesh (1897-1980) and Jesse Dabner owned an automobile repair shop at Main and Mary Streets in Petaluma. (From: Lee Torliatt: "Golden Memories of the Redwood Empire," Arcadia Publishing, 2001, p.35.) They also had an establishment in San Rafael. The Sperry Flour Company was founded in Stockton, California in 1852. It was acquired by General Mills in 1929. For Schluckebier Hardware Co., the Schluckebier family, Peters & Peters Groceries, and Herold Drug Co., see the digital collections of the Sonoma County Library. (http://catalog.sonomalibrary.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1E16H294J7051.37698&profile=dial&source=~!horizon&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!453558~!10&ri=1&aspect=subtab24&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=schluckebier&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab24&menu=search&ri=1). For the San Jose connection to Sperry Flour Company, see http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/sperry.html Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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