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Schlatter Family Photos
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More old photos from the Schlatter family files.

Not certain when this photo was taken, but, here's the
background. The building in the center of the photo with the light-colored
front is the Schlatter bakery shop on White Oak Street, Shaw, MS. Adolph
Schlatter died in November 1930. Emma's brother Louis Waldner came to Shaw
from his job as a chef in a hotel ( Mayflower ?) in Washington, DC, to help run
the bakery after Adolph's death. At some point the family operated a small
grocery store in addition to the bakery, probably in the same building.
The family lived above the bakery. John, the oldest son, and two men about
his age from the Chiz family of Shaw started a wholesale candy and tobacco
business, Dixie Tobacco and Candy Company. The truck parked in front of
the bakery appears to be one of their trucks.

Here's a more recent photo of the old bakery shop -- 20
October 2007, Shaw, MS. My brother John is standing in front of the
building.
Adolph and Emma's oldest son, John, married Nancy Suther of
Charlotte, NC, in 1952 (born 1920, died 2009). They met while John was
stationed in Myrtle Beach, SC, during WW II. John sent several photos of
Shaw to Nancy before they were married and before she visited Shaw. Nancy
gave copies of these photos to my brother John with the comment that John wanted
her to see Shaw before she decided to marry him and move there!! Shaw was
a small, sleepy Southern town -- probably not what Nancy was accustomed to!!
We have four of the photos that John sent to Nancy: The one at the top of
this page that shows the old bakery shop with one of John's trucks parked in
front, and, the following three photos.

"Our place on Hiway 61"
Dixie Tobacco and Candy Company started with a warehouse on
Highway 61 -- the famous "Blues Highway" through the Mississippi Delta -- on the
outskirts of Shaw. The warehouse-office is on the left. The gas
station-garage on the right with the name "Ferriss" on the front was owned by
the Ferriss family -- see the previous page of photos for a photo of David "Boo"
Ferriss as a member of the Shaw HS baseball team, 1938.

Another view of "Our place on Hiway 61."

And another view of the Dixie Tobacco and Candy Company
warehouse-office on Highway 61, Shaw, MS.
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