{"id":2644,"date":"2017-03-18T21:49:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T21:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/?page_id=2644"},"modified":"2020-03-02T01:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T01:49:41","slug":"bills-pet-shop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/features\/bills-pet-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill’s Pet Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up at 14th and College and went to school at Winslow, so I saw Bill’s Pet Shop every day. I clearly remember when he died — the neighborhood was buzzing for weeks.<\/p>\n

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Bill’s Pet Shop, between the house and the barn, and all with their backs to Winslow School.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bill’s barn<\/p><\/div>\n

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From the 1958 phone book<\/p><\/div>\n

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William Hartweg from the 1958 phone book<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bill did not live at 420 14th Street in 1954, so we have a rough time for when he created the pet shop.<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the 1945 City Directory, 420 14th Street was a grocery run by Bill and Lydia Hartweg.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lydia Hartweg, b. June 13, 1904, d. December 1, 1984, age at death: 80
\nWilliam Hartweg, b. February 6, 1902, d. January 1, 1979, age at death: 76<\/p>\n

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Racine Journal Times, August 1954. Maybe before they decided on the name of the shop?<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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Lydia Hartweb is starting another half century at the same old stand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lydia Hartweg marking half century of retailing
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You can see the barn of Bill’s Pet Shop in the lower right corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grew up at 14th and College and went to school at Winslow, so I saw Bill’s Pet Shop every day. I clearly remember when he died — the neighborhood was buzzing for weeks. Lydia Hartweg, b. June 13, 1904, d. December 1, 1984, age at death: 80 William Hartweg, b. February 6, 1902, d.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2644","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2644\/revisions\/3345"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}