Rippey, Iowa, Main Street Businesses, 1950’s

What Do You Remember About Rippey?

The Rippey, Iowa, Sesquicentennial will be held on Saturday, August 1, 2020. If you have personal remembrances of Rippey, you are invited and encouraged to share those memorable stories. Just send your remembrance via email and we’ll get it posted on the Rippey News Web site, as well as on Facebook sites of the Friends of Rippey and the Rippey Sesquicentennial. You write down the anecdote or story–a page or two–and we’ll do the rest. Phyllis McElheney Lepke is serving as our volunteer coordinator and stories may be sent to her at Rippey150@gmail.com.

After reviewing the I Remember Rippey list of 1931 Main Street businesses provided by Nancy and Dale Hanaman, Carol Norgren John (with help from Nancy, Mary Weaver, and Phyllis Lepke) put together this DRAFT of a listing of Rippey businesses in the 1950s. We have to say that we’d gladly take any corrections or edits, as this is not a definitive listing. If you have more information, we hope that you will share it. Thank you.

Rippey, Iowa, Main Street Businesses, 1950’s

North side of Main Street from east to west:

Brobst Café

States Sundries

Empty building

First National Bank, on the corner

Around the corner to the north:

Post Office

Fire Station

Lumberyard

Saiter’s grocery store on the corner

Shorty Overman barber shop in the basement

Masonic Lodge upstairs

Library, small building

Squeak Thornburg café

Rippey Savings Bank

Apartment building

Fry Auto Company

Nellie Senter grocery store

Telephone office

South side of Main Street from west to east:

(house)

Eloise Overman beauty shop

Locker

Rebekah Hall

Burk Ford

Dr. Chase’s office down the street

Killam Hardware

Legion Hall

Across the diagonal highway (144):

Co-op

Ross Hatfield gas station

Train station

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