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Gilmer, Texas Downtown Through the Ages
Created by Ronald Ellis Wade
Photos through the Compliments of Jeff Baird's Wonderful Collection



 

     

 

 

 

 

 


Henry Lee Davis Grocery

          


Baird's Sinclair & Up Street

  


First Baptist
   
   


Piggly Wiggly


Leard Building across the street 1954
View of Block from across from 1st Baptist
   


Barrett Cleaners


Bakery


Gilmer Building & Loan
 


Epperson's Drugs  Safeway & Western Auto
   


Bealls Earlier Location


Hogg's Pharmacy, and West Side of Square 1960


Bealls Department Store 1970's


Perry's 5 & 10 Cent Store 1949-1950


Davenports Store 1950's


 West Side of Square Including Kurtz Dept. Store

 


Moughon Store and W.H. Petty Store


Jack Odles Barber Shop 1956
   
 


Firestone 1956

  


Kinnel's Cafe (left) and Drue Wade's Barber Shop
 

 
 


The Toggery, Newsome's Pharmacy & Wilburns Insurance


J. B. Whites Department Store
     
 


Hudgen's Dept. Store 1954


 


Santa has been a fixture on the Courthouse Square for Decades in his tiny red house


Gilmer Downtown Cotton Day 1912


Upshur Co. First Courthouse


Ladies in Carriage in Front of Courthouse


Courthouse and view of Hays Hotel


Upshur Courthouse in 1937 on Postcard


Upshur Courthouse in the Snow Possibly in the 1950's

 

 

 


 


First National Bank


Red and White Store & North Side of Square
 


Bishops Department Store


Nichols Furniture, Barber's Grocery, 1955 Parade
 


Buckhorn Barber Shop


Foster Shoe Store


Jeannie's Dress Shop

 


Entry to Shafer's Drug Store


Marshalls Department Store
 
 


Farmer's Merchants Bank
 


1968 Nixon Headquarters, previously Chamber of Commerce
 
 


East Side of Square 1940's
 


Aldredge Cleaners
 
Crystal Theatre 1924

Crystal Theatre 1929


Nation's Food Store & City Auto
 
       
   
Floyd's Feed & Seed 1963


News Stand


City News Stand


Earl's Cafe

 
White Swan Cafe, Gilmer Mirror
1970 future-President George Bush at current location of Joe Henry's Hamburgers
Morgan Hardware 1965
New Post Office
Post Office

 

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