File:Wenner's City Meat Market looking out on West Potomac Street in 1956.jpg
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Clerk inside Wenner's City Meat Market looking out on West Potomac Street in 1956. Maybe Teddy Phillips?
The store was ravaged by a fire in September, 1959 and later razed. The land was sold to the Ambulance Company by Mrs. William B. Wenner.
(Photo courtesy of Ann Wenner Osteen)
Mary Lee Cossairt: We shopped there during my childhood. Had the best cuts of meats you could buy.
Seeing the cigarette ad on the window reminds me that dad said his father sold cheap cigarettes to get railroaders into the store. Knowing what we know now about smoking, that wasn't good, but that was business at the time and railroaders smoked a lot....Peter
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