111-years ago on Main Street
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These may not be familiar names in Ada today, but in 1904 they were the familiar faces on Ada's Main Street.
Ada business people, top row from left, Cylde Sharp, cashier, First National Bank; Louis Greer, shoes; Jos. August, variety store; Cliff F. Landon, druggist; Ray Sharp, millinery.
Second row from left, O.S. Melhorn, grocery, Wm. McCafferty, meat market; Louis Brewer, grain and implements; M.S. King, bargain store; John Young, druggist.
Bottom row from left, M.L. Snyder, University Herald; Levi Anspach, Ada Lumber Co.; Clark Provenmire, grocer; and David Watt, jeweler.
From "Ada and the O.N.U. ...the new and the old photo-gravures. 1902."
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