A small building on the south side of the present BB&T parking lot with a front porch and plenty of ice cold drinks and other snacks?
A gray stucco house on South Maple Street, now the site of the bank parking lot?
A service station and a garage near the site of the present police station?
A two-story yellow brick building housing a small grocery on South Maple Street at the rear of the new detention center?
The popcorn stand near the north side intersection of Main Street and Broadway?
A frozen food locker on North Main Street?
Allsmiller's Hardware Store on the southeast corner of Main and Broadway?
A hatchery near the site of the present Maple Street and another, Anderson's on North Highland Street?
Browning's Processing Plant where Beverly White Towers and Ecton Station of the Winchester Fire Department now stand?
Booming business for both downtown hotels?
More than one taxi service offering 24-hour transportation?
Businesses in every building on Main Street?
The man who kept downtown Winchester clean with a push broom and cart?
The athletic rivalry between Winchester and Clark County High schools?
Flynn's, Dailey's and Quisenberry's as popular high school hangouts?
A skating rink on East Washington Street just past the former viaduct and later one on West Lexington Avenue just east of the former railroad crossing, and still another on Carol Road.
A bowling alley on North Main Street and later another on Carol Road?
Dances at the fire department when it was housed in City Hall?
Blue Ribbon Days when children marched down Main Street near the end of the school year?
Reynolds Village on the west campus of today's College Park, then homes for veterans returning from World War II and their families while attending Kentucky Wesleyan College?
Memorial Day always being observed on May 30?
Remembering all or some of these probably means we have more years behind us than in front of us.
Anyway, they make good memories for those of us that can remember all or part of them and for those that can't, you missed a lot in downtown Winchester. Wish you could have known it!
Can you remember diagonal parking in the middle of Broadway?
York's Apple House on North Main Street?
Carnivals on North Main Street on the lot where today's IGA is located?
Pound Tire Supply and service station, complete with gasoline pumps, on the corner where Peoples Exchange Bank now stands?
Street car tracks on Main Street?
Main Street covered in brick?
A creamery and a locksmith shop on West Broadway between Wall Alley and Maple Street?
A corner grocery and apartments where BB&T and its parking lot are now located?
A small building housing Columbia Gas and a small upper apartment at the corner of Wall and Cleveland streets?
A small building on the south side of the present BB&T parking lot with a front porch and plenty of ice cold drinks and other snacks?
A gray stucco house on South Maple Street, now the site of the bank parking lot?
A service station and a garage near the site of the present police station?
A two-story yellow brick building housing a small grocery on South Maple Street at the rear of the new detention center?
The popcorn stand near the north side intersection of Main Street and Broadway?
A frozen food locker on North Main Street?
Allsmiller's Hardware Store on the southeast corner of Main and Broadway?
A hatchery near the site of the present Maple Street and another, Anderson's on North Highland Street?
Browning's Processing Plant where Beverly White Towers and Ecton Station of the Winchester Fire Department now stand?
Booming business for both downtown hotels?
More than one taxi service offering 24-hour transportation?
Businesses in every building on Main Street?
The man who kept downtown Winchester clean with a push broom and cart?
The athletic rivalry between Winchester and Clark County High schools?
Flynn's, Dailey's and Quisenberry's as popular high school hangouts?
A skating rink on East Washington Street just past the former viaduct and later one on West Lexington Avenue just east of the former railroad crossing, and still another on Carol Road.
A bowling alley on North Main Street and later another on Carol Road?
Dances at the fire department when it was housed in City Hall?
Blue Ribbon Days when children marched down Main Street near the end of the school year?
Reynolds Village on the west campus of today's College Park, then homes for veterans returning from World War II and their families while attending Kentucky Wesleyan College?
Memorial Day always being observed on May 30?
Remembering all or some of these probably means we have more years behind us than in front of us.
Anyway, they make good memories for those of us that can remember all or part of them and for those that can't, you missed a lot in downtown Winchester. Wish you could have known it!
