About a downtown cafeteria again....
Across the street from the Davis Grill (north side) sat the old U.S. Post Office, or at least that is what I have been told. I have faint memories of an old building being there when I was a small child.
Don't know when the old post office building was torn down, but sometime around 1950 or so a cafeteria was built on that spot. This is south of the Meridian Star office on the same side of 22nd Avenue. It was called the Jim Nix Cafeteria. Not sure when it went out of business. There may have been other cafeterias in downtown Meridian, but I don't have any memories of them.
Anybody remember eating at the lunch counter in Albright and Wood Drug Store on the same triangular block with the Davis Grill? Then in later years eating at Tutor's Pharmacy down on Fifth Street? Seems that Albright and Wood was where all the city bus lines crossed.
Anne, I remember Betbeze Brothers' market. When I was a small child I would go in there with my mom to get meat. Kind of different from today where you get all your groceries at one place. Betbeze's Market was right down 23rd Avenue from Meyer and Schamber Jewelers as I recall.
True story here since the statute of limitations has long since expired -- My mom, and many other Meridianites, went to high school with the Betbeze brothers. During WW II you could only get as much meat (bacon, sliced ham, round steak, etc.) as your ration stamps permitted.
After the war was over my mom (and others) told it that quite often when they got home from Betbeze they found that they had more meat than their ration stamps permitted. Of course they had paid for the total amount of meat, but still, the amount of meat was
more than the ration stamps permitted. The Betbeze brothers "looked out for" their former high school classmates.
