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Dub's Place
Buddy Baker: "I remember Dub Whitfield, well. He used to deliver milk to our place when I was a kid (1920s and '30s.) His folks owned a dairy out where Lowe's is now. They had their own bottling operation. Dub delivered the bottles with a horse and wagon. He'd leave new full bottles on the step and pick up the empty ones.
Then people got to where they bought their milk at the grocery store and he opened Dub's Place."
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| 107 West Culton Street, Warrensburg, MO Dub's Place today the Checker Tavern |
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Dub Whitfield peers out of the window to watch the photographer. |
Buddy Baker: "Dub's was where Checkie Tavern is now."
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| 107 West Culton Street, Warrensburg, MO Dub's Place today the Checker Tavern  Richard Schnakenberg, proprietor today. |
Dub sat for his portrait at about the same time as he hired the photographer to take pictures of his successful business.
All good things must come to an end.
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| April 1935 Dub Whitfield, Jim Whitfield ~ Red Shaw & Lester Krause delivering milk, wagon on North Holden Street in front of the courthouse. City Hall and the fire station in the background.. Thank you Ann O Shideler. |
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| William H. "Dub" Whitfield Obituary, Warrensburg, MO 1902-1974 |
1 comment:
I graduated from WHS in 1968, and was already working full-time at the CMSU Student Union snack bar and kitchen. Dub was employed as a custodian by CMSU and worked in the Union. He also owned, or at least worked at a package liquor store where Mazzio's Pizza is now.
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