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Other Businesses

Mary Alice Coffman Lilly and her hustand Bob Sr., a few years after Mary Alice closed the Athens Pet Shop in the old Barbery building. (Photo from Bob Lilly Jr.)

Athens Pet Shop

Information and photographs are needed for this business.

Advertisement from the 1941 edition of the Concord College Pine Tree Yearbook.

College Cleaners

Information and photographs are needed for this business.

Photograph of Mr. Doyle Lytton with a young customer that appeared in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph in 1988.

Lytton's Barber Shop

Doyle Lytton provided a lifetime of barber shop service to Athens customers.

Excerpt from an early flyer advertising the new Athens Texaco Service Station on Route 20.

Texaco Service Station

The Texaco Station had many owners, the best known during our years was the Shumate family.

Athens Taxi Service operated from the same building that housed the Town Hall and Athens Cash Grocery.

Athens Taxi Service

Information and photographs are needed for this business.

David Hill, Jr. walking in front of the house the family moved.

Hill Family House Moving

The Athens connection to houses moved along Route 20 when the WV Turnpike was constructed is described here.

Seal of the Raven Hill Gold Mining Company incorporated in 1906 in Athens, West Virginia.

Raven Hill Gold Mining

Dr. David H. Thornton chartered Raven Hill in 1906.

Bob Beckett's Maytag store in the old Massie store building, alongside the Massie Hotel.

Beckett Brothers Maytag

Bob Beckett operated his appliance store and repair service from the old Massie store building.

Llewellyn's Beauty Shoppe attached to the home of Andy and Llewellyn Wagner Fudge as it appeared in 2013.

Llewellyn's Beauty Shoppe

Information and photographs are needed for this business.

Roy Beckett (l) with Mildred and Joe Vachon in front of the old Gulf Service Station.

Roy Beckett's Gulf Station

Information and photographs are needed for this business.

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