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| | OttawaHerald.com -- Downtown Ottawa: At a Crossroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Nearly every block downtown had a grocery, and a clothing store, and a shoe store, and a department store, and a barber shop, he said. |
 | | One Ottawa banker, Wayne Dickerson, and his wife would drive downtown on Saturday night and park their auto on Main Street, Haley said. |
 | | After the block became the only commercial block in Kansas to be so named, other downtown merchants quietly began tearing off tin facades and restoring the fronts of their buildings. |
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