By this time, Pateros had about 850 residents, and its main street had more than forty businesses, including two grocery stores, Elgin Yeager’s Barber Shop, a hardware store, the Pateros Theater, and two lumber yards, Brownson and Wagner. The town also had several service stations, Meadow’s Electric, and Ola Robbin’s Dry Good Store with its creaky wooden floor. Residents could dine at The Billingsley, Robinson’s Cafés, and Wagg's Café, which in the 1940’s had been the town bus stop. Dr. Harold Stout had his office in Pateros, and Doyle’s was a place where teens met to hangout or play pool. There were two churches, the Methodist and Church of Christ, as well as a liquor store established in the early 1950’s after much concern by church folks in town. Pateros also had a large railroad yard and boxcar repair shop, two oil distributors near the main street, Chevron and Union Oil, and several apple sheds on both sides of the main highway that divided the town even then. Its streets were lined with large shade trees that made the town very inviting after a hot trip up from Wenatchee.