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The earliest records in 1893 show the two structures that are today the Briggs Building as saloons. By the late 1890s they had merged into one large saloon, but by 1902 the building on the left sold clothes and dry goods and the one on the right was a general store. During Prohibition, from 1920 to 1933, a tunnel allowed the movement of goods between this building's basement and the basement of Torreano's store across the street. E. J. Mitchell and family opened an antique shop here in 1957 and operated it until 2013. In 2015, the Briggs remodeled the building and opened their business.
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