Just another disused building along the highway, right?
This article on Brickeys has some really interesting points in it.
I can imagine some older citizen telling this story about the Fair View store:
Since business was not booming right away, the Chisms bought two little black bears from a zoo in Wisconsin to help - and it did the trick. (Later however, after one of the bears died, they tried to give away the other bear to zoos, but none would have it. Their daughter Wilma, age 16, shot the bear with 50 spectators watching and it was butchered, and a shooting match held to sell the meat, 120 choices.)
That event must have been quite the spectacle, and I just have the feeling more than one person took the public execution of the bear pretty hard.
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