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The Colonial, Washington-Clay High School newspaper, 20 May 1955, read first-hand
By 1955 the corridor carried a full small-town bench, and a school newspaper's advertising pages are its census. The 20 May 1955 issue of The Colonial — the Washington-Clay school paper, whose district then took in the town — prints the corridor's firms in a single sweep: a dry cleaner at 417 North, a flower shop at 409–11 North, a drugstore and a garage sharing one scrambled advertisement at 401 North, a superette at 107 North, an I.G.A. supermarket at 320 North, a service station at 151 North, a fruit market at 125 South, and a meat market at the Greenacre corner claiming twenty-five years of trade — back to about 1930. The bench is carried firm by firm in the businesses file; its weight here is what it proves about the corridor: a generation after the 1927 trio, the road held groceries twice over, fuel, flowers, cleaning, a pharmacy and a garage, all within the town's 4,600 feet. The motel row that would complete the mid-century corridor arrived eight years later, in 1963, and stands in the hotels file.