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Epps Cafe also was home to a gas staion and several motel cabins.  It was located on highway 67 south.
This photo of the Poplar Bluff Loan and Building Association is from the 1950's.  The building was downtown across the street from the Daily American Republic.  Although the building looks a lot like the Roberts Plumbing building on Broadway, it lacks some of the architectural details of the Roberts building.
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KWOC Radio hit the airwaves around 1937.  This building was located on North Main Street at the site of the old Butler County Health Center.  KWOC eventually moved to the McCarthy Building in the 400 block of Vine Street, to the  Valley Plaza, then to buildings now occupied by Country Connection and Mayas, before moving to the new River Radio building on Pine Street. 
Westwood Hills Country Club is located south of town on Business 67.  Judging from the style of the old lawn chairs, this photo is probably from the 1960's.
Alma's Studio of Photography, located across from the Rodgers Theater on Broadway was owned and operated by the webmaster's Aunt Alma Williams. 
Her display window once contained a photo of her husband and the webmaster's dad proudly holding a fish they had caught illegally because it was "out of season." 
This is Tiny's Studio of Photography.  Leo Schluter, the man we all knew as "Tiny,"  was well known and loved by school children in Poplar Bluff.  He frequently took the school photos in the Poplar Bluff area schools.  In 1973, he shot the senior photos for this webmaster.
The Ben Franklin Store, at the corner of 5th and Vine was in operation until the mid 1970's.  It was a favorite of TRCC students when the college was located downtown.  The building later became the home of Don White's Music,  and "Hays - The Music Store."
Bill Childress Chevrolet was located on Pine Street at the site of the present-day River Radio building.  This business was once criticized and told they would never be successful, because it was located "too far from downtown." 
City Refrigeration, located in the familiar building at the corner of "11th and Vine"
Don Liddenton later located his KLID radio in this same spot. 
This Texaco station stood on the northeast corner of Main and Pine, where the Butler County Justice Center stands today.