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| "Pa's Store."
This is the "John Forbes Store" (John Washington Forbes) on
North Main Street in Danville, VA. Picture was taken in the 1920s.
Jack Morgan (Blanch Forbes Morgan's son) told this funny story about the
store. He was down there with Pa one night at closing time. He got
sleepy and crawled under one of the counters and went to sleep. Pa
went home and he and Grandma went to bed. In the wee hours of
morning Grandma said, "Mr. John, where is Jack?" Pa had
to get up and go back to the store and get Jack, who was still
asleep. Jack (and I'm sure the other grandsons) used to deliver
groceries in his wagon for Pa. |
This caned bottom chair is an example of
the handiwork of John Washington Forbes.
The store below is Crews Awning Company on
North Main Street in Danville, VA. John H. Forbes and Bahrendt A.
(Bookie) Forbes, sons of John W. Forbes, both worked at Crews'.
Picture was taken about 1932 or 1933.
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Ruby Forbes Parker Core ran this store next
to their house in Mountain Hill near Ringgold, VA (close to
Danville). This picture was taken in the 1990s, but the store was
operational in the late 1940s. Husband Jimmy Parker ran a dry
cleaning business.
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Forbes Commerce Then 
