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Show GILNER'S BAKERY Livery Stable (where North of McDonald's beer for rods. She said children would often be sent to the back door with a three pound lard home to their fathers.] J. C. Pen ney store is now) on the west side of north Main was the Gilner Bakery. It had elegant, mouth-watering window displays of bakery goods made and presided over by Mr. Gilner. He was a generous, friendly man whose pleasure was serving his customers. He pail for beer to take Several years later Gilbert and O'Brien moved to a building just north and opened an o. P. Skaggs new store. O'Brien city councilman and member of department. Mrs. O'Brien par was a the volunteer fire bachelor and lived in the rear of the bakery where he could keep an eye on his ovens and the baking, day and night. Customer's children would often be given a free treat. was a ticipated in civic affairs and was a member and worker in St. Theresa's Catholic church. Evelyn taught school in Midvale elementary. In 38 years she taught over a thousand students. Grant G. Gilbert describes the market: "the front trance built across the was stairway leading rear was a had a dentist's office and Waters. corner The store an of the building; en at the to the second floor which office for attorney W. D. accounts and had kept charge delivery service. On the Main Street side were two display windows: One decorated from the grocery department and the other showing the meat cooler with sides of beef, veal, poultry, mince meat barrels and kegs of dill pickles. "As you entered the store there was a rack of frUits vegetables.· The bookkeeper was Lenora Jenkins and (Jorgensen). Very little cash was used; all bills were on payday. If a customer needed an extra few dollars, and had an account, he could come to the store settled and borrow it. The Steel Mill and U.S. Smelter would sometimes consign employees' checks to certain stores. These stores picked up the checks, added up the bills and gave the men back the difference." Poultry was killed and dressed in a store. On south Main Street there was bakery located on the corner (Post Office parking lot). With him Gilner's second Center Street of Price Alley most stores and is Lizzie Holden. back room of the killing yard, but would kill their own cattle, hogs, sheep and a poultry. The offal would run into the Jordan River. Royce Gilbert told his children what a hard time he had killing ten sheep who looked at him with such soft eyes. courtesy Elizabeth W. Lind, Mrs. Maines After many years, Gilner moved his bakery to a building at the corner of Price Alley and Center smaller Street; this is now the post office parking lot. After brief operation here, he closed shop and moved away. a Harry S. Wright GILBERT AND O'BRIEN'S CORNER MARKET Mr. and Mrs. Edward O'Brien and children, Evelyn and Bob, moved to Midvale in 1920. He worked as a butcher for Alex Dahl. About 1925 Ed and Royce Gilbert opened the Gilbert and O'Brien Market on the corner of Main and Center where the Walker Bank stands. [This building with its corner doors had originally been Vin Gilbert and O'Brien's Corner Store, Water's law originally Vincent's corner saloon. cent's saloon. Elizabeth Whitemore (Lind) says she remembers passing the saloon going to school and peeking in, as the swinging door opened, at the men with one foot on the foot rail. She said you could smell the Burt 131. Floral, Knowles,. was one whose mother -·office abo"-e, developed Knowles of the workers at the Corner Market. The |
