Dexter Postcards
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Main St. Dexter, Mich., postmarked 1913. A woman stands on the raised sidewalk on the north side of the street, a bicycle leaning against the building behind her. The signs on that building read, “Champion” and “Ward Plows. On the far right side of the block, you can see a building with a distinctive domed roofline, which still stands on the corner of Ann Arbor Street and Broad Street.
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Dexter, Mich, circa 1930’s, 1940’s. The opposite side of the street is shown on this postcard, in later decades. Thriving businesses shown, left to right with their signs: First a building with a striped awning, then a Rexall Drug store, advertising drugs and films in the window; Roy’s Tavern, with a Coca Cola sign outside and advertising Beer and Lunch; Joe La Rose Ice Cream, Lunches Beer AND air conditioned! Banners along windows say Arctic Ice Cream, Albert’s Candies, Lunches, Fruits, Groceries, Meats, and Vegetables; side of the building after the alley advertises soap, and a playbill for Clifton Webb in “The Man Who Came to Dinner;” Steptoe and Arnsey Hardware selling Boydell Paints; last is Kroger!
Ann Arbor Street runs northwest/ southeast through the village of Dexter.