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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., Development of the business section of West Medford. (search)
ughter. The old railroad station became the hardware store and plumbers' shop of Dunbar & La Chappelle. Later, and still more enlarged, it became a laundry. Duncklee & Grimes established a livery stable next Ober's, on Harvard avenue, and took over the bus-line to Medford, and when the bob-tail street car came on, their driver became its conductor. Reuben Hawes continued in this till the automobile's coming made it a garage. Further on Henry Woodward established a mason's locker, with Allen, harness maker, upstairs. Later Sidney Dean came as blacksmith and Charlton, wheelwright, while only recently Dinsmore vacated and the dilapidated shack was torn down. About fifteen years ago the H. T. Wood house was moved and a one-story mass concrete building of four small stores erected, and was quickly followed by a community garage—these on Harvard avenue, and on the southwestern limit. At both sites the builders made the earth over, digging their sand and gravel for concrete on th