We Know How – Wardrobe Cleaners – Refrigerated Bonded Storage © Frank H. Jump
Dodge City KS
Central Hotel Building – Batteries – Tires – Tubes & Accessories [Auto] – Dodge City, KS
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Gunsmoke Street © Frank H. Jump
The Central Hotel building was built circa 1930. The two-story brick building is is a fairly plain appearing building. The building originally housed a service station on the first floor. The building had a canted opening allowing the cars to drive through. The second-story housed a hotel. The first story has now been closed off and has two store fronts. The building has ghost signs showing its past.
The building now houses a music store and another business. – Waymarking
Guymon-Petro Mercantile Company – Boot Hill – Dodge City, KS
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
One of the largest whole grocery distributing firms in southwest Kansas, lasting through World War II, was the Guymon-Petro Mercantile Company. Started in 1902 as the Gonder-Petro Mercantile Company at 225-227 S. Main, it was incorporated as Guymon-Petro in 1907. In 1938, it purchased the Winfield Wholesale Grocery, and by 1946, the company covered five-eighths of Kansas. – Kansas Historical Society (National Register of Historic Places submission)
