Robert, thank you for reaching out to recover Jamestown history. It's a noble cause.
I recently had the opportunity to meet and talk with Doug Haynes, the son of Don and Beverly Haynes. I reached out to him for more info on this question and he has given me some info and promised to pick his brain for some more.
His parents bought the Merc building in December 1963 from Glen and Lorraine Upp and owned it until 1975 when they sold it to Mike. He previously related how his mom found an ad for the Merc in a Denver paper while out here skiing and somewhat on a whim they bought it.
Jean King recently related a story to me about how Don Haynes ran a small butcher shop in the Merc space and would periodically take a cow up to Slaughterhouse Gulch and, well, slaughter it. I had the impression he was not previously a butcher but not sure on that.
Doug told me his father also worked at a feldspar mine somewhere up the canyon but quit when they wanted him to start working under ground instead of on the surface.
Doug had previously told me that his mother ran the post office in the Merc and at one point the USPS wanted to build a new post office and the community rebelled against that in favor of the space they had. I'm waiting on a further reply from him on what else they sold or served from the Merc in that period.
We, KT Oxford and I, actually bought the Merc from Mike in 2019. Over two years already, how time flies!
Also, I recall that Rainbow and Adam just had an anniversary of the date they took over the Cafe from Joey. It was on the QT a little while back but now I don't recall whether it was 10 or 12 years. 10, I thought.
I recently had the opportunity to meet and talk with Doug Haynes, the son of Don and Beverly Haynes. I reached out to him for more info on this question and he has given me some info and promised to pick his brain for some more.
His parents bought the Merc building in December 1963 from Glen and Lorraine Upp and owned it until 1975 when they sold it to Mike. He previously related how his mom found an ad for the Merc in a Denver paper while out here skiing and somewhat on a whim they bought it.
Jean King recently related a story to me about how Don Haynes ran a small butcher shop in the Merc space and would periodically take a cow up to Slaughterhouse Gulch and, well, slaughter it. I had the impression he was not previously a butcher but not sure on that.
Doug told me his father also worked at a feldspar mine somewhere up the canyon but quit when they wanted him to start working under ground instead of on the surface.
Doug had previously told me that his mother ran the post office in the Merc and at one point the USPS wanted to build a new post office and the community rebelled against that in favor of the space they had. I'm waiting on a further reply from him on what else they sold or served from the Merc in that period.
We, KT Oxford and I, actually bought the Merc from Mike in 2019. Over two years already, how time flies!
Also, I recall that Rainbow and Adam just had an anniversary of the date they took over the Cafe from Joey. It was on the QT a little while back but now I don't recall whether it was 10 or 12 years. 10, I thought.