Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
2013.021.001b |
Title |
The Fair 5 & 10 Store sign |
Accession number |
2013.021 |
Object Name |
Marquee |
Date |
c. 1980s |
Description |
One large painted wooden sign in three separate sections for The Fair Store Five and Dime. The exterior sign hung on the building at 1116 and 1117 Washington Avenue in Golden. Sign was created and installed in the 1980s by owner Kenneth L. Middlemiss. He finally closed the store in 1997, after deciding to retire. |
Provenance |
For 109 years the Fair Variety dime store was a fixture of downtown, from the original 1884 dry goods store of John Hardin Brown in the Opera House Block, to ownership by G.G. Fetterman in the Dollison Building, and two generations of the Middlemiss family. Here was its last and longest home, built by contractor Lawrence W. Billis for Ralph W. Middlemiss. Vintage aluminum framing and original windows and door still greet visitors. After the dime store closed in 1993 it became Molehill, the first maker of mountain wear for kids. Inside today's clothing store is the Wrigley's gum mural originally painted in the 1920s on the outside of the Dollison Building, while the dime store fixtures remain preserved at Lakewood's Heritage Center. |
Condition |
Good |
People |
Middlemiss, Ralph W. Middlemiss, Dorothy M. |
Search Terms |
The Fair 5 & 10 Store |