Rosser Avenue appears a bit In the distance you can barely

untidy here at the corner of see the sign that is still quite

Eighth, as the photographer looks legible almost a hundred years

west this day in 1896. later. That is where The Soup Beyond the first telephone Kettle simmers today at 1031

pole at the left is the location of Rosser Avenue.

the Nation and Shewan store m

816 Rosser — just about where the

Metropolitan store stands today,

surrounded by the Brandon

Gallery.

Could Brandon’s first library have been located here, behind those two windows above the sacks? The signs say READlNG ROOM.

The Brunswick Hotel was located on the west side of Tenth Street at Pacific Avenue. There must have been some good reason for having the reading room almost next door to the BAR ROOM.