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Bronco Bobbi’s / Thunder Horse Mercantile
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At 37 North Main, the building housed the Dixie Photo Company in 1906, later became the Sargent and Cherrington Garage as automobiles grew more available, and for several years during World War II Harry Langdon operated a photography business there. Daly Jewelry opened at the site in the late 1940s, and other businesses there included the Toggery clothing store and Lee’s Indian Store before it moved to 83 North Main Street. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the building contained a combined video rental store and ice cream parlor. Bronco Bobbi’s occupied the space from 2007 to 2013, selling collectibles, antiques, and décor pieces, and afterward it housed Little L’s Bakery and a Mexican restaurant. At 43 North Main, a nineteenth century building with an elaborate metal façade manufactured in St. Louis by the Mesker Brothers and ordered through the Sears and Roebuck Catalog was occupied in 1905 by Southern Utah Equitable, or S.U.E., formed when the Cameron and Sevy Store merged with the local co-op. During the Great Depression, J. Frank Houston bought all stockholder shares and became the store’s sole owner. For more than 80 years, the S.U.E. sold household goods, groceries, toys, and farm supplies, and as it prospered the owner added the smaller building on the left with apartments above and more retail space below. When the S.U.E. closed in 1987 and the S and C Mercantile burned a few years later, it marked the end of an era on Panguitch Main Street. Thunder Horse Mercantile and Buffalo Java Coffeehouse occupied the space briefly and closed in 2000.
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