1: Coast to Coast, formerly The Creamery
Leanne`s grampa Popp (John Popp), was somehow related to the Janish family. Jake Janish and John Popp (I believe) were in business together on that location. The store looked like 2 buildings sitting side by side (because it was). The north half was the hardware store and the south half was an automotive shop of some kind. In 1937 Jake Janish's son George was a teenager working at the movie theater across the street when the storm hit. George told me that he was holding the theater doors shut because they were trying to blow open. He watched the storm blow that building down. The building used to sit along the street, and the storm blew it back on the property and down. Somebody stood the building back up (farther east where it ended up) using the existing materials. That left a blank spot in front of the building, so John Popp buried some tanks and put gas pumps there and started the Coast to Coast store in 1938. The Coast to Coast company was 10 years old at the time.
Off to the right in the picture was an old shoe and harness repair shop. After I moved to Waubay, I donated the shoe and harness repair shop building to the museum in Webster, where it stands today.
Contributed by Tom Harrington
2: Coast to Coast, formerly The Creamery
This is what the store looked like a few years after Leanne and I took the business over. We removed the gas pumps, put new siding on the building, and added on to the building to the south where the shoe shop building used to be.
Contributed by Tom Harrington
