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Vyto Kapocius: Worked weekends at Public Fruit at 6th and College in 1952, Goscieske\u2019s (sp?) was next door… Red Cross drug store was on NE corner at 6th and College.<\/p>\n

Todd Wallace: What was it like working at Public Fruit?<\/p>\n

Vyto Kapocius: Worked with Floyd Hobbs who went on to set up the shrimp place at 14th and Villa. Had to remove a dead rat in the basement one afternoon and had to go home feeling an upset stomach. Were happy to ring up a grocery bill of $25 back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public Fruit and Vegetable Market, 405 Sixth Street. The Racine Journal-News, March 9, 1928. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New Fruit Store to Open Saturday at 3202 Washington avenue. Racine Journal-News, February 13, 1931. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vyto Kapocius: Worked weekends at Public Fruit at 6th and College in 1952, Goscieske\u2019s (sp?) was next door… Red Cross drug store was on NE corner at 6th and College. Todd Wallace: What was it like working at Public Fruit? Vyto Kapocius: Worked with Floyd Hobbs who went on to set up the shrimp place…<\/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-7065","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7065","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=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7071,"href":"http:\/\/www.vindustries.com\/racinehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7065\/revisions\/7071"}],"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=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}