[Note: this post is -- like many others on this site -- "under construction" -- expanding as new stories and pictures come to the surface. Clearly, Schwab's Store was the center of all activities in Crockett's Bluff for half a century until it was finally closed in the late 1980s. ]
Vicki Schwab Gardner and her father Eddie at the center of activities near the entrance to the store (in the mid 1950s?) The best image I've seen of the store as I remember it in my youth. One of the most general of general stores of those times -- complete with a pool room in the back and an unforgettable pinball machine up front.
I've been told this shot was actually made by Eddie Schwab from atop the Prange water tower with a primary view of the Prange Farm store and an excellent view of the gardens behind the Schwab Store. Late 1930s or '40s
