Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Memories of Sevastopol, IA live on walls of grocery store

Old Photographs and Memorabilia on display in Iowa Store

The 62-year-old owner of the B & B grocery store at Southeast Sixth Street and Hartford Avenue will let his sons take over more responsibility for the family business, but he'll never be totally gone from the store.

The walls of the store are covered in old photographs and other documents that trace the history of the area back to its beginnings as an independent town,
Sevastopol, in the late 1870s.
Read full story from the DesMoines Register