DECATUR — Decatur’s 22nd Street is filled with local history.
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🚗 The road through Decatur: Eldorado Street through the years
1950: Markos Madias sold this eight-room home at 519 West Eldorado to Mrs. Ada Leeper.
1945: Decatur Municipal Band approaches the Eldorado entrance to Fairview Park in the Victory Day parade. Forty-thousand people watched the parade, according to estimates. The band is followed by women and men in uniform.
1919: The class photo is as much a part of going to school as recess and reading, writing and arithmetic. Here, children and teachers gather for a photo at St. John's Day Nursery at 259 W. Eldorado St. It was a precursor to the Decatur Day Center, now at 364 W. William St.
1940: The recently completed Kroger super market at 509 E. Eldorado St. is opening soon. The large brick structure is rated by Kroger officials as one of the finest and most complete of the company's stores in the Midwest. A parking lot for more than 100 automobiles adjoins the brick building.
1967: John Meyer checks on the maze of tanks and tubing used in color film processing at Pfile's Camera Inc. at 1351 E. Eldorado St.
1968: Ed Huffer operates the apple peeler he has attached to a stand in his barbershop at 140 E. Eldorado St.
1955: Polar Service Co. has lived up to its name by chilling a variety of items from cream to beer since this plant at 888 W. Eldorado St. was built in 1910.
1952: The old DeForest house at 1324 West Eldorado street has been sold to the Temple B'Nai Abraham congregation by Arthur M. Wells Jr., Decatur insurance man who's been living in it since he bought and renovated it last August. The temple plans to build a synagogue on the site, but not in the immediate future, according to Philip Hecht, co-chairman of the site committee. The synagogue would replace the building at 247 W. Prairie Ave.
1988: Millikin students who rent at 1150 W. Eldorado used imagination and paint and had a field day.
1907: 268 W. Eldorado, interior. This house was formerly the Commons Club's Cadets' House.
1973: Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. (Sue) Bartel display some of the 17-cent hamburgers sold at the new O.B.'s restaurant which opened last week at 918 E. Eldorado St. The Bartels are operating the Decatur outlet as part of a four-restaurant franchise chain they own. Other units are located in Indiana and Kentucky.
Contact Donnette Beckett at (217) 421-6983. Follow her on Twitter: @donnettebHR
Donnette Beckett
"Together Decatur" Columnist and Food/Drink Reporter
