These storefronts at 2315-2319 Cherokee were built in 1922 during the Roaring Twenties, when the economy was volatile, women's skirts were getting shorter, Prohibition was the law, and illegal booze could be found on almost every block. A silent movie house, or odeon, had stood on this site since 1908, but in 1922 Rose Schwier received a permit to wreck it. Rose, the daughter of emigrants from France, and her husband Charles, the son of German immigrants, owned and operated a grocery in the adjacent storefront facing Jefferson, and together they built these storefronts in the same year that archaeologists opened King Tut's Tomb in Egypt and the Bauhaus school of design in Germany was displaying the work of founder Walter Gropius and artist Paul Klee. During the 1920's, these storefronts housed a millinery shop, a men's clothing store, a jeweler, and a confectionary.
