File:Ambulance - City Meat Market on September 13, 1959..jpg

Summary

News clipping from the Frederick News Post the morning after the fire that gutted the City Meat Market on Sunday night, September 13, 1959. While the photo caption optimistically reported that the store was "probably reusable", it was torn down along with houses on S. Virginia Avenue. It is the current site of the ambulance co

My grandmother sold the land to the Ambulance Co. for about $600 after the store was razed in 1959 or '60. Jackie Ebersole says she remembers Claire Ebersole and Wayne Hill going down to Ocean City to negotiate terms with her on the front porch of the Log House at Pic a Wenner on 5th & Philadelphia Avenue....Peter Wenner