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From the Gowanda PennySaver News "Reflections" series compiled by Mary Pankow. issue date - January 27, 2002

c. 1905

Sipple's - Located on East Main Street, the Sipple store offers tobacco products, candy, magazines, and newspapers as the smell of fresh-roasted peanuts fills the air. A comment from about 1896 reads,"Mr. Sipple, east side tobacconist, has Chinese lilies in bloom in his windows." A letter recently received from an Oregon resident reads, "I last enjoyed Sipple's ... in 1944." Others enjoy Sipple'suntil iy closes in the early 1970's. Family Plus Primary Care is now located there. (Photo courtesy of Gowanda Area Historical Society.)