Looking for the Sandlot

[Detector]

Knapp's was the name of that store at 1000 6th.

Remember when Mammal's was in the middle of Wyatt Earp just southwest of Boot Hill and northeast of McDonald's?

[lBugsy]

And right across the street to the north was Triplett's Grocery.
By the way...that is where the first public swimming pool in Dodge City was located. This would be where Montana Mike's is today.

[Detector]

Here is a picture of Wyatt Earp before Urban Renewal's destruction. Note Boot Hill in the far left

[K C Muffin]

Originally Posted by lBugsy

Oh Boy...Rollie May's...He and his wife. I think I lived in that store. Then there was the Oak Street Grocery between 1st and 2nd on the same street and Ave D Grocery. Then there was a little grocery store at 1000 6th.
They used to be all over. I remember when the Rainbow Bread man would make deliveries and sometimes he would have the miniature loaves of bread he would give us kids.
Mom had a charge account at Rollie's but had to close it after we would buy all the neighborhood kids candy and pop.
Do you remember when they would have summer rec at Central School?
Ah...those were the days.
I sure wouldn't want to be a kid today.

I do remember the summer rec program. We were always in it. Yep - we had it good, alright. How easy it is to forget.

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by Detector

...Remember when Mammal's was in the middle of Wyatt Earp just southwest of Boot Hill and northeast of McDonald's?

Remember when they put the temporary tracks across the Mammal’s parking lot to bring in the locomotive?

Or when Boot Hill was smaller and 4th Ave went straight through?

[K C Muffin]

4th went through? I NEVER knew that. There was always that huge parking lot. Truth be told, I never got that far away from home most often. Went downtown with grandma and we ate at the Woolworth's lunch counter.

[Highwayman]

We lived on 4th when I was a kid so we had to start doing a detour.

[JayhawkMom]

Originally Posted by K C Muffin

4th went through? I NEVER knew that. There was always that huge parking lot. Truth be told, I never got that far away from home most often. Went downtown with grandma and we ate at the Woolworth's lunch counter.

Oh yea........the Woolworths lunch counter. God, I forgot about that. Thanks for the memory KC!

[deuce91]

Being someone who was born after the Urban Renewal, it's always fascinating to me how much the downtown/Wyatt Earp corridor has changed. I find it interesting to hear my mother remember walking downtown as a little girl with her parents at night doing Christmas shopping where everyone knew everybody. Or that Dillons was first at 3rd and Spruce. What I wouldn't give to live in that town, or at least experience it. One question I've always had was whose bright idea was it to demolish the old Dodge and what reasoning was there for it?

[The Drifter]

i agree with deuce that this was a dumb idea. Were the streets both front street collectively or did they have two different names. I asked my dad but he forgot what they were called.