Brisco Building - Blairmore, AB
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N 49° 36.469 W 114° 26.230
11U E 685150 N 5498182
On this site there have been a whole townful of businesses and attractions - opera house, men's wear store, residential apartment, dry goods and tailor shop, bowling alley, Chinese restaurant and even a newspaper. Today it again houses a café.
Waymark Code: WMPD3K
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 08/11/2015
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Brisco Building
Captain Beebe opened Blairmore's first opera house here in about 1905. When it became apparent that a larger facility was needed, the opera house moved to a temporary facility in 1910 making this site available for commercial redevelopment.
After the newly-constructed Kalil Block was destroyed in the fire of 1912, R. M. Brisco built this two-storey fireproof building of red brick and grey block and moved his men's wear store here. The Briscos lived in an apartment upstairs. Between 1916 and 1926 the building was taken over by the Blairmore Trading Company (F. S. Kafoury's dry goods and tailor shop) with the Kafoury family also living upstairs. In the 1930s the ground floor housed Fat's Bowling Alley (later Fat's Chop Suey), and in the 1940s the second floor was home to the Pass Daily Herald.
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