980 Barnett Street

This former grocery store at 980 Barnett Street is home to the 720 Club, which hosts support groups.

The earliest record of this building is in November 1928, when Ives Sandwich Shop "near school buildings" is mentioned in a newspaper advertisement.
In 1930 J. S. Robertson bought the business from John R. Ives. Located near Tivy School, it handled not only groceries but also school supplies and candy and had a lunch room. A few months later he sold the property and business to M. W. Cooper and T. N. Phelps. They converted the store to a Red & White Grocery and enlarged the facility.
In 1931 Leslie Adkins bought Phelps' share in the business. After Leslie Adkins died, his son Roger took over management.  Cooper later sold his interest to Earl Bernhard.
Roger Adkins bought out his partner in 1953.  The 25 year old grocery store closed its doors July 1955.

After Adkins' closed, the building housed a variety of other businesses including Landgrebe Grocery in the late 1950s, the Kerr County Commodity distribution center (before 1971), and The Corner Store.

It has served its current purpose since 1990.

Schreiner Cash and Carry Grocery

What we think of as the Schreiner Store building is actually several buildings erected over many years.  This art deco building at 214 Earl Garrett, now home to Schreiner Goods, was erected in 1936 for the Schreiner cash and carry grocery.
Schreiner's original cash and carry grocery, which opened in 1926, was in the basement of the building at the corner of Water and Earl Garrett Streets.  In 1926 the cash and carry grocery was a fairly new concept.  Prior to the development of "cash and carry", customers used to call in or deliver their grocery orders to the store, the groceries would be charged to the customer's account, and then delivered later in the day.  As cars became more common, stores moved to a cash and carry concept, whereby customers would select groceries from the shelves themselves, pay cash, rather than on credit, in order to save money and then carry their groceries home themselves.  When the Schreiner grocery department closed in 1963, the hardware department moved in. The department store closed in 2007.