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Then and now
On the occasion of The Sylva Herald’s 80th anniversary, the newspaper office (lower photo) is the focus of this week’s “Then and Now.” The building had a different look in 1941 when Dan Allison’s auto and appliance business was located in the former McGuire Building. After Allison’s moved down Main Street to the old Sears store in the late 1940s (It’s By Nature gallery is there now), downstairs’ tenants included Elsie Massie’s dress shop, which closed in 1980. After the dress shop moved out, the McGuires moved their dental offices down from the upper stories into the first-floor offices, where they stayed for about a decade until completion of their current building on King Street. Lawyers’ offices then occupied that space until the the newspaper expanded its operations from the building next door in 1997, the same year Herald Publisher Jim Gray purchased the building from the McGuires. Allison’s employees in the top photo include Lonnie Jones, driver, and Earl Norton. – Photo courtesy of Daniel Allison (top) and Herald photo by Nick Breedlove |
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