tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940611489190367707.post7610500383057137156..comments2023-09-28T12:15:50.887-07:00Comments on Yreka History: J. P. Churchill Building Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940611489190367707.post-6610316497650535702020-02-24T13:55:28.940-08:002020-02-24T13:55:28.940-08:00We have a small bottle on which is printed:
J. CHU...We have a small bottle on which is printed:<br />J. CHURCHILL & SON<br />DRUGGISTS<br />YREKA, CALA<br /><br />In a curve across the top of the bottle is printed<br />ESTABLISHED <br />1857<br /><br />Did the General merchandise Store have a druggists in it? <br /><br />In doing research I found another similar bottle online that lacked the established date.<br />Emilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06611973706477137680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940611489190367707.post-36387249869651047632012-11-24T15:41:54.983-08:002012-11-24T15:41:54.983-08:00Of course you're right, it couldn't have b...Of course you're right, it couldn't have been the same building. Seem to recall a sort of "Art Deco" elevation on the Miner Street side, just a blank wall on the highway side.John Gardnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940611489190367707.post-18887799434713322522012-11-24T14:59:06.152-08:002012-11-24T14:59:06.152-08:00John, yes this is the same location as the Spot Cl...John, yes this is the same location as the Spot Club.... but it is not the same building, that one was constructed in 1937 after the one in the photo was razed to allow room to widen the highway (Hwy 99) through Yreka on Main Street. Very interesting about the films being shown there you mention... that is new information to me! Thanks!Claudia Easthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10508097372768337834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940611489190367707.post-58741769406792498932012-11-24T13:58:05.085-08:002012-11-24T13:58:05.085-08:00And the intervening business in that building was ...And the intervening business in that building was the "Spot Club" --- sort of the Ur sports bar of the 1940's and 1950's (and later). It had a bar/booths and a small kitchen in the back. Mainly sports films (I remember one in particular of a couple of men going down the Klamath to its mouth in a dory boat) projected on a screen at the front door end of the bar, but also some footage taken in WWII by military cinematographers. I ate dinner there several nights a week (sometimes with my father, more often alone) in the 1949-50 time frame when I was 7-8. The official story to be given in the event there was any challenge was that the barkeepers wife was baby-sitting. Learned a lot in that bar ... :))John Gardnernoreply@blogger.com