Starnes Gen. Mdse.

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Starnes Store was located on Highway 155, between Church Street and Dallas Street. I don’t know when it opened, but I remember it from the 1940s when I was a child. In 1971-72 it was an all purpose hardware store and, apparently, the site of a non-stop domino game. Whenever I visited, there always seemed to be four or five players at any given time. I don’t remember very much about what was going on in the store at the time I took these photographs, all with a Pentax 35mm camera, using natural light, but my guess is, not very much.

I do remember a conversation I had with one man who worked there. He said that just the week before somebody had come in and bought up all his Model A Ford headlights. The store was closed when I visited Winona in 1989 and had probably been closed for years. The building is now in very poor condition. I have recently been in touch with relatives of the founder/owners and some of the wonderful cases and fixtures have been saved by the family.