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A Gowanda Timeline
Snippets from the history of a small town.
1969 - Campbell's Furniture ad: Lee's 21st Century DuPont nylon carpets - special introductory price: $5.99 sq. yd. Choice of Grecian Olive or Brass.
1969 - Hogle’s Drug Store “Rexall Sale” ad: Goldfish special - Buy 2 lively goldfish in glass aquarium with water foliage and pearl-colored chips for only 35 cents with purchase of $1 or more of any Rexall cut-cost-of-living sale merchandise. Rexall electric heating pads, $2.19. Seamless nylons, 39 cents a pair or three-pair pack $1. Minute- man chewable multiple vitamins, $1.69. Cookware - Popular colors include pimiento, avocado, nutmeg, orange blaze, turquoise, coppertone, desert sand, dancing ‘flame, harvest gold, charcoal grey and apple green.
1969 - William Gilray is appointed superintendent of the wet department at Moench Tanning Co.