"The advent of a larger Scheels and the big-box stores kind of put the smaller sporting goods stores out of business," Brad says, "but it's fun to reminisce." "Stan Kostka then moved to Main Avenue, where Rhombus Guys now sits," Brad says. Switching to sporting goods stores, here's Brad Wimmer, of Wimmer's Diamonds, Fargo, who writes about three of them in downtown Fargo: Al's Sports Shop on north Broadway, which mainly sold hunting items Bob Fritz Sporting Goods, which moved from a "very tiny" store on NP Avenue to a much bigger store where OB Sports Zone now is and Emery Johnson, which turned into Stan Kostka Sporting Goods, behind Wimmer's, and which is now a parking lot. So, neighbors, do you remember Melting's store? "We had many charge accounts," Lorraine writes "imagine that nowadays!" Another man named Baker was employed there, too. There was a butcher and a delivery man his name was Lou Willprecht. ![]() We had no car, so she walked back and forth. John's Hospital, Fargo, and I rented a bedroom upstairs at 517 10th St. "I graduated in 1950 from Ulen (Minn.) High School, then went to work in Fargo. "I worked there in 1950-51 right out of high school," she writes. Lorraine Nelson, Hitterdal, Minn., asks if anyone remembers Meltings Food Market on 10th Street South in Fargo. That meant another ride for me on my blue Schwinn." "There also was a bakery on Eighth Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues North that filled our neighborhood with the delicious aroma of baking bread. If he ran out of his Dutch Masters Belvederes, he would ask me to ride my bike over to Ted's or the Empire Tavern on Broadway and buy him a pack. "My father Clint Lageson liked to smoke cigars while he mowed the lawn. "There was a beer store called Ted's Corner on Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street," she writes. Mary's and Roosevelt schools that were important in her childhood. ![]() Pull up a chair, you neighbors with Fargo connections, and let's reminisce about Fargo stores from the past, as this column has done several times over the years.Ĭarol Seim, who says she has been a northside Fargoan all her life, remembers a couple of places between St.
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