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Notes from Tim Mayville: The building pictured looking at the barber shop
pole; the one with Lynch on it, that use to be the Cache River
Hardware building in the 70s and early 80s.
Later in the 80s, it was purchased by an uncle and turned into a
kid’s pool hall and game room. In the late 80s and early 90s,
that same person butted heads with City and County officials
over back taxes; this was right on the main drag in town so, the
town wanted a cut. This uncle moved his game room over the levy
so he was exempted on taxes and I don’t think he ever paid.
Now its one of the Local Chapters of Bikers in town.
Notes from Anne Harvey - atwharvey @ verizon.net
The store with “HE Lynch” on the side had belonged to my
great-grandfather, Hubert E. Lynch. He had a hardware store and
eventually opened a furniture store as a sideline, and during
his lifetime it was called Lynch Hardware. He was also an elder
at First Presbyterian Church (which burned down in the early
1990’s and was been rebuilt in a modern, functional style; and
not to be confused with Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which
was only used for civic functions when I was a child). He died
in the late 50’s or early 60’s, can’t recall precisely. You
mentioned that the building was purchased in the late 1980’s. I
don’t recall which commercial properties my grandmother (Ruth
Lynch Whitaker) still owned by then, but I know she had problems
with some tenants in some buildings (she owned both commercial
and residential) and, if recollection serves, with someone who
defaulted on a loan. It could be that the person who you say
bought it in the late 1980’s was the one who defaulted, because
I am almost positive that it was owned by my grandmother at the
time of her death and went to my aunt who then sold it with all
the other of my grandmother’s property in Clarendon. It was
always referred to as “the store” in our family, even though it
wasn’t the only building Ruth owned downtown, and I am certain
that “the store” was among the property in her estate.
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